ACOUSTICS AND NOISE CONTROL IN OFFICE BUILDINGS
Office acoustics have a direct correlation to worker productivity, with workplace studies citing noise as the most significant distraction. In recent years, office speech privacy issues have also become a greater concern. At GOLDEN HARVEST, we consult with architects, interior designers, and facilities management professionals to create office acoustics and work environments that manage sound and control noise in office environments—supporting performance, productivity, and collaborative workplace objectives.
We have had extensive experience in acoustics, sound isolation and noise control in office buildings, large and small. We work primary with architects and builders to ensure that new buildings function well and provide a good environment in which the tenants can fit-up raw space to suit their needs. We also work with tenants to control acoustic behavior within their spaces, especially for key spaces such as reception, boardrooms and meeting rooms and open and closed offices.
We offer complete solutions for open, closed, and mixed-use office designs for new construction, remodeling, and retrofit projects. We also work with office furniture industry leaders, testing and evaluating acoustical performance of new office systems, products, and materials.
We use an integrated approach to design office acoustical solutions that considers architectural spaces, ceiling, wall, and floor coverings and materials, furniture systems, and sound masking technology. Our office acoustical solutions consider workspace utilization and levels of desired employee and team interaction as well as office speech privacy and confidentiality needs. We also analyze office acoustics to develop solutions to control, isolate, or mitigate noise from mechanical systems, office equipment, paging systems, and other sources.
Most office buildings use simple HVAC distribution requiring open plenums to move air. In many applications this creates problems of speech privacy and sound isolation and conflicts between neighbouring tenants. For example, we are often called upon to quiet exercise rooms or aerobics facilities located in major buildings. We have also designed suites of recording rooms in Class A buildings. These rooms require extensive mechanical system adaptation to avoid problems of sound isolation in spite of a requirement for high levels of cooling and ventilation air.
For offices in the design phase, we employ sophisticated acoustical modeling software to predict and analyze prospective office acoustics. In offices that are already built, we use state-of-the-art acoustical measurement technology and predictive modeling to analyze existing office acoustics and evaluate alternative remedies for acoustical problems.
Our office acoustics include:
• Architectural acoustics design
• Interior acoustics design
• Speech privacy design
• Noise control and vibration isolation
• Mechanical systems noise control and vibration isolation