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, […]
Category Archives: Case Studies
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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 […]
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Project Overview: Office Floor Vibration Assessment The Providence One building in Lake Mary was getting acoustic complaints that were not actually acoustic. Occupants on a specific floor reported persistent low-frequency vibration in the slab. One employee was taking motion sickness medication just to make it through the workday. A structural engineer had already cleared the […]
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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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Project Overview: Upscale Tampa Hotel Acoustic Assessment Three years after opening, this Tampa upscale hotel was still getting acoustic complaints on guest satisfaction surveys. Front desk had heard every variation: expressway traffic through the windows, slamming doors in the corridor, bar music thumping into the rooms above. Management had spot-fixed individual rooms over the years […]
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Project Overview: Bathroom Plumbing Soundproofing Case The family in this Tampa home was dealing with a noise problem most homeowners write off as unavoidable. Every toilet flush and kitchen drain cycle was audible from the dining room. During family dinners, the rush of water through the pipes overhead was loud enough to interrupt conversation. When […]
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Project Overview: Crunch Fitness Multi-Tenant Building Assessment Crunch Fitness opened a second-floor commercial gym in December 2016. Within months, the tenants below and the spa next door were filing complaints. The healthcare provider on the floor below was hearing weight drops during patient sessions. The spa next door felt vibration during deep tissue treatments. The […]
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Project Overview: Central Florida Hospital Sound Study The hospital management team was watching the same metric every acute care administrator watches: HCAHPS scores, and specifically the Quiet at Night question. Patient satisfaction was lagging, complaints about overnight noise were showing up consistently in the survey free-text fields, and CMS reimbursement was on the line. The […]
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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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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 […]