There's a specification habit that shows up for acoustic board: the NRC rating gets scrutinised carefully, and the finish gets picked from a catalogue swatch. One gets treated as science, the other as decoration. In reality, they're both technical decisions, and getting the finish wrong can quietly undermine a product...
Acoustic Boards for Commercial Spaces: How to Choose the Right Type for Your Project
A corporate office redesign lands on your desk. Open floor plan, glass partitions, polished concrete floors. Beautiful in renderings. Then the client mentions they need "some acoustic boards" to control noise. That phrase—"some acoustic boards"—covers a massive range of custom acoustic solutions with wildly different performance characteristics, installation methods, aesthetic...