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Acoustic Comfort Lower Ground Floor, 45 Gee Street London EC1V 3RS
Acoustic Comfort
Lower Ground Floor, 45 Gee Street
London EC1V 3RS
Affordable housing and care provider The Guinness Partnership added 30 Brock Street to their portfolio in December 2014. Their office space was spread across 5 floors. Due to the low mechanical noise levels (sub 30dBA), consultants AAD recommended the application of sound masking to increase the building’s noise floor to the recommended levels (circa 45dBA in open plan areas).
Acoustic Comfort were engaged by leading Design & Build firm Oktra to provide the sound masking element, including design, installation and commissioning of the LogiSon system.
Due to the low plenum (circa 150mm) we were required to provide an alternative speaker application to the standard 100mm diameter upward facing speakers. In this instance it was necessary to use the pyramid-style 4-directional speakers, which ensured an even and unobtrusive distribution of sound throughout the space, despite the conditions.
These example test results measure sound travelling across an open plan space.
These example test results measure sound leaking from a closed meeting room into an open plan area.
Speech privacy
Reduce interruptions
Products used
LogiSon sound masking
Open plan and meeting areas
Housing Association
Oktra
AAD
The facilities team here had experience of sound masking systems from another of our offices, however admittedly the perception wasn’t particularly positive. We arranged a visit to one of Acoustic Comfort’s existing clients in central London to make our own judgements and speak with the facilities team there. We were pleasantly surprised that the sound masking was evidently effective as we couldn’t hear the conversations we were observing, however it was unobtrusive and not noticeable. There has been no response to the masking since we occupied 30 Brock Street, which means it is doing its job.