Building and Room Acoustics

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Luxurious buildings are always outfitted with the most high-end features which serve the building’s purpose. One of the most important considerations when designing a highly functioning building is to provide comfort for the occupants. Comfort in a built environment is affected by a number of different aspects which include personal factors, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, visual comfort, and acoustic comfort.

Acoustics is the key to success for many buildings and building spaces, and it shall be carefully considered for a space to function well. When acoustic considerations are applied to a building, not only it will increase a space’s functionality, but also add tremendous value to the building.

Some of the fields where our acoustic and vibration engineers are working in

Sound insulation

This involves designing and analysing the ability of a building’s walls, floors, and ceilings to prevent sound from passing through them.

Sound absorption

This involves designing and analysing the ability of a building’s surfaces and materials to absorb sound, reducing the amount of sound that is reflected into the room.

Reverbation

This involves designing and analysing the persistence of sound in a room after the original sound source has stopped.

Speech intelligibility

This involves designing and analysing the clarity and ease with which speech can be understood in a given space.

Outdoor noise control

This involves designing and analysing the acoustic impact of outdoor spaces and designing solutions to minimize the noise impact on surrounding buildings and neighbourhoods.

Acoustic comfort

This involves measuring and evaluating the perceived sound quality of a space and designing solutions to improve the overall acoustic comfort of the space.

Room acoustics

This involves designing and analysing the overall sound quality of a room or space, including the effects of sound reflection, diffusion, and absorption.

Mechanical systems noise and vibration control

This involves designing and analysing the acoustics of HVAC, plumbing, and other mechanical systems in a building to minimize their noise and vibration impact on the surrounding spaces.

Acoustic Material

This involves selecting and specifying the appropriate acoustic materials for a project to achieve the desired acoustical performance.

Building Code Compliance

This involves ensuring that the building acoustical design complies with local and national building codes and regulations.

Our Service

Acoustic Insulation

A proper acoustic insulation helps you to avoid any disturbance that comes from adjacent rooms. Acoustic insulation design relates to the ability of a building element or building structure (i.e. walls, floors, ceilings, glazing, assemblies, doors, etc.) to reduce sound and impact transmission through it. Geonoise provides calculation and recommendations of material and construction related with acoustic insulation.

Room Acoustic

Room acoustics describes how sound behaves in an enclosed space and therefore affects how sound is perceived in a room. Room Acoustics is an important aspect when speech and/or music is present in the room. The sound quality in the room is affected mainly by the geometry, volume, and materials used on the surfaces of a room. Geonoise provides room acoustic modelling and room acoustic design.

Building Noise

Building noise control is critical to ensure that the noise level in a space is sufficiently low so that the space can function as intended. Noises that are present inside buildings includes mechanical noise from HVAC system, plumbing noise and building service equipment. Geonoise provides calculation and treatment recommendations for MEP systems in buildings to ensure that the noise level is adequately controlled.

Building Acoustic Measurement

With a wide range of measurement equipment such as sound analyzer, tapping machine, omnidirectional sound source and acoustic camera, Geonoise is capable to perform a wide range of in-situ measurements which include sound insulation (airborne and impact), room acoustics (RT, STI, etc.), noise level (NC, RC, dBA, etc.), sound leakage detection with acoustic camera, and many more.

Geonoise provides measurement, modelling, and consultation services for building and room acoustics application. We do acoustical designs (pre-construction) and acoustical consultation on constructed buildings.

Measurement and Consultation for Acoustical Auditorium Acoustic Room

Reverberation Time Measurement: T60 T30 T20 EDT

Measurement and Consultation for Acoustic Insulation and Building Vibrations

Acoustic and Noise Room Measurement for Hotel

Acoustic Laboratorium Measurement

Anechoic Chamber

Buiding & Room Acoustic Instruments

Some room and building acoustics problem that we handle:

Measurement and consultation for building insulation, both airborne noise (e.g. ISO 140-4) or impact noise (e.g. ISO 140-7) (see more)
Measurement, modelling, and consultation for building noise (e.g. HVAC noise, MEP, noise transmission in between rooms, etc.) (see more)
Concert hall, recording studio, listening room, home theater, auditorium room acoustics design, etc. (see more)
Modelling and consultation for facade design related with noise (e.g. outdoor-indoor noise from traffic, railway, industry, community noise, concerts, etc.) (see more)
Measurement, modelling, and consultation for building construction noise (see more)
Measurement and optimization of speech intelligibility (Sound Transmission Index – STI, STIPA) for meeting rooms, open plan offices, restaurants, public areas, etc. (see more)
Acoustical design and measurement of offices (open plan office ISO 3382-3) (see more)
Sound leakage localization on partitions or facades using acoustic camera (see more)
Other problems related with sound and vibration in buildings