Concert-grade clarity for the new Largo Central Park Performing Arts Center auditorium — stretched fabric walls, vertical wood slats, and curved wooden diffusers tuned to handle a flexible mix of music and spoken-word events.
30
May
May
When ceiling tiles aren’t enough — baffles, clouds, stretched fabric, wood, metal, and pyramid diffusers that deliver acoustic performance and visual design at once. How each type performs and where each belongs.
25
May
May
Echo is a reflection problem, not a soundproofing one — fixed with absorption and diffusion, not heavier walls. RT60 targets, the surface area to cover with NRC 0.85+ material, and where to start (hint: the ceiling).
08
May
May
Ground-up middle school in Manatee County hitting ANSI S12.60 from day one — 105,647 SF of acoustic ceiling tile and 6,000 SF of wall panels coordinated with Willis A. Smith Construction during the original build sequence.
27
Apr
Apr
The alpha values behind every absorption calculation – octave-band coefficients for common floor, wall, and ceiling materials from 125 Hz to 4 kHz, with notes on which numbers to trust and how to use them.
Case Studies
Sound Control for Public Learning Spaces: Mote Science Education Aquarium in Sarasota, FL
25
Apr
Apr
A floor-to-ceiling stretched fabric acoustic wall installed across Mote SEA’s new multipurpose learning rooms — taming echo and lifting speech clarity for thousands of K-12 students cycling through the Sarasota STEM facility each year.
22
Apr
Apr
The major ACT brands, the tile types that actually perform in offices, schools, healthcare, and performing arts, and how to match panel construction to the acoustic and visual targets each project demands.
21
Apr
Apr
Showroom acoustic refresh for Mercedes-Benz of Coral Gables — acoustic ceiling tile, vertical baffles, column covers, and wall panels reducing reverb across the dealership’s main customer floor for a calmer high-end retail experience.
15
Apr
Apr
Sound travels four times faster through concrete than air — why stiffness beats density, what that means for structure-borne noise paths, and how to turn one of the worst transmission materials into a quiet building.
Case Studies
Improving Speech Clarity in a School Auditorium: Wolfe County Middle School in Kentucky
14
Apr
Apr
Surface-mount retrofit on a new auxiliary gym/auditorium hybrid in Eastern Kentucky — 160 ceiling baffles plus 125 wall panels delivering measurable speech-clarity gains without altering finishes or pushing the school’s schedule.