Acoustics Matter!
Clinton Selby
Delivering workspaces that work Better | Co-Founder Genius Co-Working | Owner Ergostyle
While office space evolves for a mobile workforce’s changing needs and companies continue to embrace open-plan office design, recognising the requirement for office acoustics is becoming increasingly critical.
The need for ease of communication, privacy and freedom from annoyance determine the acoustic requirements for an office. In particular, they lead to the control of the background noise.
Open plan office acoustics
For facilities managers, understanding the basic structure of open office acousticsand understanding the way the physical elements of the office environment impact sound transmission is an important step in implementing good acoustics and mitigating noise pollution. The ceiling, the walls, the floor and the sound masking system all contribute to the acoustic quality of a room.
“The problem with these [open plan] kind of working environments is particularly critical right now, as more and more employees work in open-plan offices and at workstations that are on average about 20% smaller than they were ten years or so ago.” (workinmind.org)
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3 年They certainly do! I wish we’d paid more attention to this when we built new offices. Easy enough to retrofit though.