Schools and Buildings

The acoustical design of building spaces is a fundamental part of delivering a fit-for-purpose project. Southdowns can advise on suitable acoustical criteria for offices, schools and performance spaces. Suitable reverberation time and speech intelligibility targets can be recommended along with appropriate design advice to achieve those targets.

Building Bulletin 93 sets-out in detail acoustical design targets for schools and it is now mandatory for all new schemes to comply with its requirements as part of the Building Control’s inspections. Requirements cover building envelope design, glazing specification, reverberation limits and speech transmission.

In-house software enables the investigation of suitable finishes within rooms to achieve the required acoustical conditions, as well as ensuring that the building envelope and separating element construction is suitable for controlling ambient noise levels within teaching and otehr spaces.

Plant and equipment associated with building services is taken into account in any study and appropriate measures applied to the system to control breakout or breakthrough noise into sensitive room spaces.

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