Workplace Acoustics - How to Cope with Today's Multi-Functional Office

In today’s workplace, one of the top staff complaints is the inability to concentrate due to noise levels. As an acoustic consultancy...

Sound Asleep - Hotel Acoustics

One of the most basic functions of a hotel is to ensure guests relax in relatively tranquil surroundings. Noise of the wrong kind can be...

Room Acoustics

Reverberation is an important issue within room acoustics and is well known to affect both speech intelligibility and the music quality...

Acoustics & The Convenience Store

The rapid spread of convenience stores across the UK passed under many people’s radars, as our shopping habits gradually reverted back to...

Workplace Acoustics Seminar

The design of workplaces is constantly evolving and varies from occupier to occupier, with each design requiring a bespoke acoustic...

Soundbites No 3 – A nice row of trees is an effective acoustic screen: true or false?

As usual, the answer is not straightforward. If we are looking at sound reduction in dB, then foliage is pretty poor at providing...

Soundbites No 2 – Why does my voice ‘carry’ so far when the office is quiet?

Well, the short answer is – it doesn’t. In fact, your voice travels the same distance, whether the office is noisy or quiet. The element...

Soundbites No 1 – Three Handy Acoustic Facts

Today heralds the first of many Soundbites, a fortnightly series of quick facts, useful snippets, dispelled myths, unrealised truths,...

What’s a Decibel, and How Loud is Too Loud?

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica a Decibel (dB), is "the unit for expressing the ratio between two physical quantities, usually...