Project Overview: Evolve Student Apartments Auburn Student housing acoustics is its own discipline. The Evolve project sits across the street from Auburn University and runs nine stories of wood-frame construction with adjacent units sharing demising walls. The developer’s challenge was hitting code-minimum STC 50 efficiently across hundreds of demising walls without burning the build schedule […]
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May
May
Project Overview: Luxury Condo Soundproofing Why Luxury Condo Buyers Expect Higher STC Than Code Requires Building code sets the floor for residential acoustic separation. Luxury condo buyers set a higher ceiling. The IBC Section 1207.1 minimum of STC 50 between dwelling units is fine for code compliance, but a code-compliant wall is not the same […]
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Apr
Apr
Project Overview: Pinellas County Sheriff Interview Rooms The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office was running interview rooms where one suspect could overhear another’s alibi through the wall. The walls themselves looked fine. The investigators could see drywall. What they could not see was the path the sound was actually taking. The ACT ceiling above the walls […]
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Feb
Feb
Project Overview: Dallas Luxury Cinema Multi-Auditorium Build This Dallas luxury cinema needed walls that did something most theater drawings ignore. The auditoriums sit shoulder to shoulder, and an action movie running at peak volume next door cannot be audible in the quiet drama starting on the other side. The STC 65 spec was just the […]
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Dec
Dec
Project Overview: KForce St. Louis Field Office Recruiter Offices Have a Distinct Privacy Problem KForce is a national staffing and recruiting firm with field offices in major metros, including the St. Louis location featured in this project. The work that happens in a recruiter office is mostly phone work. Candidate calls, comp negotiations, employer briefings, […]
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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 […]
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