Ask most design teams what a green building certification checks for on acoustics, and the answer is usually vague: something about "acoustic comfort" or "noise control." That vagueness is where submissions run into trouble. IGBC, and rating systems Indian projects increasingly pursue alongside it, like LEED, don't ask a project...
Should You Buy Acoustic Panels Direct from the Manufacturer, or Through a Dealer?
Every architect and facility team specifying acoustic panels for a project eventually hits the same fork in the road. Do you order acoustic wall panels from the manufacturer directly, or route the purchase through a dealer or supplier? Unidus Acoustics hears this question often, usually from procurement managers. They compare...
8 Things to Check Before You Specify Wood Wool Acoustic Panels
Wood wool acoustic panels look simple on a material board: a name, a texture swatch, sometimes an NRC number sitting next to it. Unidus Acoustics fields specification queries on this product most weeks, and they tend to arrive late, once the finish is locked in and the project timeline leaves...
7 Ways to Use a Printed Acoustic Panel Beyond a Plain Wall
A printed acoustic panel usually gets specified for one wall: the reception backdrop, or the boardroom accent. But the panel is really two things stacked together, a sound-absorbing board and a customisable print, and both travel well past the standard feature wall. At Unidus Acoustics, we see the same product...
Soft Fibre Ceiling Tiles vs Standard Tile: What Changes for Auditoriums
An auditorium ceiling does more acoustic work than any other surface in the room. Swap a standard mineral fibre tile for a soft fibre one, and the change isn't cosmetic. It's how much sound the ceiling absorbs versus how much it bounces straight back at your audience. For a space...
Hanging Baffles or Ceiling Tiles: Which One Actually Fixes Your Auditorium’s Echo?
If your auditorium still sounds like a train station after the acoustic panels went up, the ceiling is probably why. Walls catch some of the noise, but sound bounces off a flat, hard ceiling and keeps travelling across the room. That's what turns speech into a blur and applause into...