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Classroom acoustics: It’s more complex than NRC

If you’re an architect designing educational facilities, you’ll know that reducing noise, both the background noise and the ...
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Instagram and the restaurant revolution

Restaurateurs are increasingly feeling the pressure to be “Insta-worthy”, but with all the focus on visual design elements, ...
Acoustic, Blog, Knauf KnowHow
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Open-plan classrooms are popular, but what about the noise?

Open-plan, collaborative learning spaces are on the rise in Australian schools, and while this design trend has advantages for ...
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Healing architecture and acoustics in hospitals

Nobody enjoys a trip to the hospital. It is associated with stress, illness and pain and being in an alien place away from the ...
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Quick and easy way to estimate reverberation time

Reverberation Time In an enclosed space, ...
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Acoustic design advice for café interiors

Café and restaurant designers face a difficult challenge when designing café interiors: how to create buzz and ambience, while ...
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3 inspiring hospital design trends: colour, light and minimalism

Hospitals are generally not places people aspire to go to. Drab, grey and unwelcoming, with overworked and underpaid staff is ...
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Hospital design and noise: A message from Florence Nightingale

Remember Florence Nightingale? The Lady with the Lamp?
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Recommended reverberation times for 7 key spaces

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Soundproofing: Block it or absorb it?

Have you ever stood still in a rainforest to listen to the beautiful silence? Sometimes the only the sound you will hear will ...
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Acoustic design ... why size matters

Acoustic design is one of those often ignored aspects or architecture – and it shouldn’t be. As Master of Sound