Project Overview: New Orleans Residential Sound Testing The Test Brief: Shotgun Duplex Demising Wall The duplex owner had a long-running tenant noise complaint between adjacent units of a New Orleans shotgun-style home. Conversations and TV from one side were carrying clearly into the other, and standard troubleshooting (caulking outlets, sealing baseboards) had not moved the […]
Category Archives: Case Studies
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Project Overview: Hospital Sound Masking and HCAHPS Study Why HCAHPS Drives Hospital Sound Investment HCAHPS — the federal Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey — is the reason most hospital sound projects get funded. The survey includes a “quietness of the hospital environment at night” question, and that single line item ties […]
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Project Overview: Police Interview Room Acoustic Treatment Why Police Interview Rooms Need Acoustic Treatment The architect Concordia, the NOLA architecture firm on the NOPD project, called us in once it became clear the interview rooms in the Broadway Street building were not going to deliver usable speech recordings without help. The rooms were the standard […]
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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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Project Overview: Corporate Open Office Sound Masking The Open Office Privacy Problem at a Defense Contractor HQ Tru Simulation + Training is a Textron Inc. subsidiary, headquartered in the Tampa metro and known for developing, manufacturing, and maintaining flight training systems for both civil and defense aviation. The accounting and sales division at the Northpointe […]
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Project Overview: Pizzeria Acoustic Treatment at Mellow Mushroom The Pizzeria Acoustic Problem The Mellow Mushroom national pizzeria chain leans into a hip, all-ages dining environment, and the Lutz location was built like most of their stores: high ceilings, hard reflective surfaces, lots of glass and exposed structure. Those finishes look great in a brand mood […]
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Project Overview: Restaurant Soundproof Curtain Partition Why Wright’s Needed Soundproofing, Not Acoustics Wright’s Gourmet recently renovated their large dining room to host private events alongside regular service. The acoustic ask was unusual: instead of softening the room with absorption, they needed to physically isolate one section of dining from another during a ticketed event. That […]
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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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Project Overview: Acoustical Testing in a Corporate Office Why Sound Testing Beats Guessing in a Corporate Office Amgen had done everything right on paper. STC-rated walls, a properly specified Lencore sound masking system, a designer-grade modular partition layout. The TI buildout completed and the noise complaints arrived almost immediately. Conversations between adjacent closed offices were […]
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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 […]