Project Overview: Live Music Restaurant Acoustic Treatment Why Restaurants With Live Music Have a Double Acoustic Problem A standard restaurant has one acoustic problem to solve. Diner-generated noise (conversation, glassware, kitchen sounds) needs to be controlled enough that guests can hold a table conversation without raising voices. That single problem is hard but well understood. […]
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Oct
Oct
Project Overview: Restaurant Reverberation Reduction Why Hard Surfaces Kill Restaurant Speech Intelligibility Speech intelligibility is the percentage of spoken words a listener can correctly identify in a given environment. It is not loudness. A room can be quiet and still have terrible speech intelligibility if the reverberation tail blurs each word into the start of […]
Case Studies
Multi-Zone Office Soundproofing: Machine Shop, Open Office, & Auditorium in One Buildout
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Sep
Sep
Project Overview: Multi-Zone Office Soundproofing Why Warehouse-to-Office Conversions Stack Acoustic Problems Warehouses are built for the opposite acoustic profile than offices. Tall ceilings, exposed structure, polished concrete floors, minimal interior walls, and zero soft material on any surface. Every one of those attributes reflects sound rather than absorbing it. The volume that makes a warehouse […]
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Jun
Jun
Project Overview: Tampa Open Office Sound Panel Install Why Open Offices Need Sound Panels for Conference Calls Open offices used to be measured by speech privacy and noise distraction between desks. Hybrid work changed the test. The new failure mode is the conference call. When a remote participant joins a meeting and hears every keyboard, […]
18
Jun
Jun
Project Overview: Lake Nona Community Clubhouse The clubhouse was finished beautifully and acoustically broken. Floor-to-ceiling glass on three sides, a charred-and-sandblasted hardwood floor, custom chandeliers, and an exposed corrugated metal deck overhead. Every reflective surface modern design loves. During the first community meeting, speech intelligibility collapsed. During the first yoga class, the instructor needed a […]
09
Jun
Jun
Project Overview: Restaurant Acoustic Art Panel Install The Tropical Smoothie Cafe location had the same acoustic problem most quick-service restaurants run into within a year of opening. Hard tile floors, painted drywall, and a metal-and-glass storefront left the dining room with nowhere for sound to settle. During lunch peak, the room turned into a wash […]
07
Jun
Jun
Project Overview: Cafeteria Soundproofing Why School Cafeterias Have Severe Acoustic Problems School cafeterias are designed for cleanability first. Tile floors, sealed walls, hard ceilings, stainless serving lines, and minimal soft material on any surface make a cafeteria the easiest building type to mop and the hardest to control acoustically. Every one of those finish choices […]
03
Jan
Jan
Project Overview: Cena Italian Restaurant, Tampa Cena’s dining room had the design wrong for the experience it was selling. The look was right for an upscale Italian restaurant. The acoustics were wrong. Tall ceilings, full-height glass to the Channelside street, painted gypsum walls, and almost no porous absorption anywhere in the room. The result was […]
12
Oct
Oct
Project Overview: Museum Acoustics Solutions This project was completed at the Morean Art Museum during a planned bamboo-to-concrete flooring renovation across three main gallery rooms. Six 4×4 acoustic ceiling clouds at NRC 1.05 held the reverberation target before the harder floor surface ever went down, sidestepping the post-renovation noise complaints the manager would otherwise have […]
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May
May
Project Overview: Warehouse Soundproofing This was a full-stack warehouse soundproofing job across three different noise paths. Floor work for footfall transmission from the mezzanine, demising wall work for tenant-to-tenant speech privacy, and 1,100 Sabins of acoustic absorption to tame the open-volume echo. The same warehouse and factory noise control playbook applies whether the warehouse end […]