When we began our design efforts for the new Air America Studios, we had to address four main issues: studio layout, accommodation of technical equipment, acoustic isolation and internal room ...

Ambient noise levels in some facility types are trending up and becoming a barrier to clear communication between building occupants. A 2005 study conducted by Ilene Busch-Vishniac, PhD, a dean and ...

Have you heard a great building lately? How someone experiences a building in these changing times relies on the experience of all their senses including their sense of hearing. As soon as someone or ...

Evaluate the basic principles and benefits of using a variety of acoustical treatments Recognize contemporary ceiling solutions available to meet design needs for today and tomorrow. Assess how ...

1. To optimize a space for speech intelligibility, designers should specify products such as fiberglass ceiling tiles that have a noise reduction coefficient (NRC) of: A. Less than 0.5 B. Greater than ...

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. Imagine sitting in a café ...

A new music venue opens this weekend on the campus of UC San Diego. The Conrad Prebys Music Center includes a state-of-the-art, 400-seat concert hall designed for chamber ensembles. The design is ...

As population growth, sustainable design, urban planning imperatives and work-at-home trends combine to produce higher residential densities and occupancy hours in cities, residents' concern for ...

Acoustical design for the new BYU Broadcast facility involved all the customary issues: sound isolation, noise/vibration control and room acoustics. What made this project particularly challenging was ...

With new research into acoustics in schools it has become apparent that often classrooms have poor acoustics. As a result this can have a significant negative impact on the educational development of ...

Although most mass timber projects are hybrids of a sort—boasting a steel or concrete lateral system—Cincinnati Public Radio’s (CPR) new $32-million headquarters in Evanston is something of an anomaly ...