Project Overview: Hospital Guesthouse Soundproofing & Wall Assembly Design The Shands Guesthouse at the University of Florida campus was designed to offer comfort and privacy for visitors and families of patients receiving care at Shands Hospital. As part of the project, Commercial Acoustics was engaged to provide soundproofing in healthcare that met Marriott’s acoustic brand […]
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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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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: 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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Project Overview: Classroom Soundproofing with Acoustic Membrane Why Schools Need Tight STC and RT60 Targets Schools have stricter acoustic standards than almost any other commercial building type. The reason shows up in the research. Acoustic performance correlates directly with student focus, comprehension, and long-term academic outcomes — and the effect compounds in early-childhood spaces where […]
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Project Overview: Dance Studio Soundproofing Why Dance Studios Are Acoustically Difficult Dance studios sit at the intersection of two acoustic problems most other building types only have one of. Foot-fall and movement generate structure-borne noise that travels straight down through the floor assembly into whatever space sits below. Music systems and instructor cues add airborne […]
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Project Overview: Retrofit Soundproofing Between Floors The Between-Floor Noise Problem Mixed-use commercial buildings stack incompatible noise profiles on top of each other. Ground-floor commercial kitchens, food halls, and back-of-house operations generate constant low-frequency rumble, hood noise, equipment cycling, and impact from pots and prep work. Second-floor event spaces need a quiet floor and a clean […]
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Project Overview: Adaptive Reuse Apartment Soundproofing Why Adaptive Reuse Triggers Demising Wall Code Adaptive reuse projects convert an existing building into a different use class. The most common version takes an old commercial or industrial structure and turns it into apartments, condos, or mixed-use residential. The conversion looks like a renovation on paper, but the […]
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Project Overview: Fitness Studio Soundproofing Why Retail Strip Tenants Don’t Tolerate Gym Noise Retail strip buildings are designed for low-decibel uses. Day spas, salons, dental offices, accountant suites, and retail boutiques expect a quiet ambient floor and rarely have any acoustic treatment in the demising walls beyond a single layer of drywall on each side […]
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Nov
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Project Overview: Office Pipe Lagging Why Industrial-Aesthetic Offices Have a Mechanical Noise Problem Industrial-aesthetic offices are designed to expose what most office buildouts hide. Drop ceilings come down. Concrete deck stays raw. Pipes, ductwork, conduit, and structural beams sit naked above the workstations. The look is intentional and reads as modern, but the acoustic consequence […]