Project Overview: Tai Chi Fitness Studio Acoustic Treatment The Taoist Tai Chi Society’s new facility in Dunedin, FL serves as a global gathering place for students and instructors practicing the internal arts. With over 20,000 square feet of open space and concrete flooring throughout, the newly built fitness studio was visually impressive—but acoustically problematic. From […]
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Dec
Dec
Project Overview: Multipurpose Room Acoustic Treatment Commercial Acoustics was brought in to fix the multipurpose hall at the WellCome OM Integral Healing & Education Center, an integrative wellness campus in Spring Hill, FL that holds a 4.7-star reputation across more than 70 community reviews. The hall sees real range of use across a single week: […]
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Nov
Nov
Project Overview: Theater Acoustics for a School Performance Space Why Theater Acoustics Are Different from Other Performance Spaces Theaters live in a much wider RT60 range than most rooms. A restaurant lands between 0.7 and 1.1 seconds depending on whether the operator wants intimate or lively. A theater can run anywhere from 0.8 to 1.6 […]
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Oct
Oct
Project Overview: Acoustic Ceiling Cloud Installation at Mekenita Cantina The Mekenita Cantina Acoustic Problem Mekenita Cantina downtown Tampa opened into a build-out with sealed concrete floors, exposed brick walls, and a hard ceiling — the standard hip-cantina aesthetic that looks great on a moodboard and reverberates terribly in real life. Patron complaints arrived almost immediately […]
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Oct
Oct
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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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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