Office Acoustics

A. New office designs often fail to take into account the sound values within a working environment and their impact on worker productivity. To properly soundproof an office space, the acoustic treatment will vary depending on the design. If employees are separated by individual offices, the goal is to soundproof common walls using the GeoWool and Acoustic boards layering system. However, if employees share a common workspace, the goal is to lower ambient noise levels within the office and control excessive background noise with a set of Acoustic Panels designed for office soundproofing.

A. Open office environments produce excessive noise levels that impede productivity. Research shows that the most destructive sound in an office is other people’s conversations. As a result, the inability to “tune out” neighbouring voices can cause disruptive behaviour and lead to employees not showing up for work or quitting. If you don’t learn how to soundproof an office, you can be left with costly consequences.

A. Without effective office soundproofing, the negative impacts can prove to be significant. As noise fluctuates in an office, worker productivity will be compromised. People will strain to be heard and raise their voices. In turn, this will elevate the office noise exposure. Because of this, workers will be unable to focus and communicate, increasing the potential for error.

A. Open office environments that have cubicles are cost-effective for a company. However, the downfall is a lack of office noise control. As individual employees raise their voices, the neighboring employees suffer from a spike in office noise. This renders an unproductive workday.

A. Mandi flat form absorb the excessive echoes from a loud office environment. In turn, individual workstations will experience a drop in noise exposure as the echoes subside and productivity will rise. Office sound panels can be spaced evenly across the expanse of a ceiling, along the upper portion of the walls or as insets in the individual cubicles.

Excessive noise in an office is softened by deadening the sound bleed, lowering noise levels that threaten worker productivity. To improve the sound values within an existing space, a set of sound panels can be retrofitted into the room. See our Acoustic Panels. Once your office soundproofing project is installed, there will be fewer echoes and better control of your background noise, creating a more quiet and productive work environment for those sharing a common space.

Common walls in a loud office environment are typically built with a single framing system and drywall. It’s the frame that’s your culprit. By connecting the rooms together, the frame inside the common wall allows structure borne vibrations to pass freely from room to room, similar to a string that’s pulled tight between two cans. Your goal will be to “disconnect” the framing in the wall and add “density” to the surface to impede sound vibrations. While this may seem like an overwhelming task, it really isn’t. Simply apply our Black Mass Loaded Vinyl or Green Glue to your existing wall. Then, add a channel system and apply our Geowool and finish with a new layer of drywall using our Acoustic Board With this application, you’ll force the sound waves to collapse and prevent them from passing through the walls. This will trigger up to a 90% collapse in the noise coming through your existing wall.

Offices with existing ceiling tile grid systems and drop-in ceiling tiles often have walls that do not extend to the deck of the building. In these cases, noise can easily pass through the ceiling tiles from one room to another. To combat this sound bleed, simply add our dense GeoWool insulation that we cut to match your ceiling tile size and rest on top of your ceiling tiles to deaden noise bleed coming from the ceiling.