Project Overview: Sound Control Strategy for a Premier Hotel Venue Pier Sixty-Six Hotel is a well-known luxury destination on the waterfront of Fort Lauderdale, offering a marina, fine dining, and high-end event spaces. As part of a high-profile renovation, the hotel prioritized acoustic performance in its most prestigious gathering spaces: the grand ballrooms and their […]
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Jul
Jul
Project Overview: Custom Fabric Wall Panels for Hotel Ballrooms Set within a luxury development near Windermere, the Grand Cypress ballrooms represent the pinnacle of high-end hospitality design in Central Florida. With two distinct ballroom spaces accommodating more than 1,000 guests each, this venue is built for large conferences, galas, and high-profile speaking events. But impressive […]
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Feb
Feb
Project Overview: Acoustic Wall Panels at Virgin Hotels in New Orleans Virgin Hotels opened its New Orleans location in the heart of the Warehouse District—an area known for its rich architecture and lively event scene. The project aimed to strike a balance between modern aesthetic and acoustic functionality in a multi-use event space known as […]
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Sep
Sep
Project Summary: Four Seasons, Six Ballrooms, One Commercial Acoustics Solution When the newly constructed Four Seasons Hotel in New Orleans prepared to open its doors in 2021, designers knew the acoustics of its event spaces had to match the elegance of its architecture. With multiple ballrooms on-site—each designed to host speeches, banquets, and high-profile events—the […]
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Dec
Dec
Project Overview: Echo Reduction in a Luxury Hospitality Space The Luminary Hotel in Fort Myers is an upscale Autograph Collection property known for its distinctive architecture, luxury accommodations, and curated guest experiences. Two of its signature hospitality spaces — The Workshop Culinary Theater and Ella Mae’s Diner — required specialized echo reduction to match their […]
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Feb
Feb
Project Overview: Hotel Soundproofing for a New-Construction La Quinta Winter Park Construction brought Commercial Acoustics onto its new four-story La Quinta build in Orlando to solve a problem that quietly trips up most select-service hotel projects in the Southeast: brand-mandated STC targets on a wood-frame structure. With over 60,000 square feet of demising walls, corridors, […]
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Dec
Dec
Project Overview: Miami Acoustic Consultant for a Hotel Amenity Lounge Acoustic Consulting Brief, Miami Hotel Amenity Lounge The Miami hotel project came to us in the progress drawing phase. The architect and developer wanted an acoustic consultant to size the reverberation problem in the amenity lounge before the finishes were locked, while changes were still […]
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Sep
Sep
Project Overview: Hotel AC Noise Reduction The Hotel AC Noise Problem Hotel rooms collect every kind of noise complaint — neighbors, road, airport, plumbing — but in-room HVAC noise is the most persistent and the one that actually wakes paying guests. Cycled compressors and blower fans run on schedules the guest cannot predict, which is […]
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Oct
Oct
Project Overview: Hotel Penthouse Ceiling Soundproofing Why Penthouse Suites Sit in the Worst Acoustic Position Penthouses sell on the view. The unit at the top of a tower has the best sightlines, the most natural light, and the highest revenue per night or per square foot. The trade-off most operators undersell is the acoustic position. […]
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Jun
Jun
Project Overview: Door Flanking ASTC Test Why Doors Are the Hidden Acoustic Weakness Most demising wall acoustic specs focus on the wall assembly itself. Stud type, drywall layer count, insulation, decoupling, membranes — all of it gets engineered to hit a target STC rating. The door in the same partition rarely gets the same scrutiny. […]
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