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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Jun
Jun
Project Overview: Law Firm Soundproofing Why Law Firms Need a Higher Soundproofing Standard Two adjacent law firms in a Class A Sarasota office building shared a demising wall and a problem. Voices from one suite were intermittently audible in the other. Conversations were not loud. The walls were not thin. The construction documents looked correct […]
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Jun
Jun
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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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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