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The 4 Roles of Acoustic Ceilings in Buildings

Acoustic comfort is a core pillar of enhanced indoor environmental quality (IEQ). Many building design standards and guidelines have acoustic requirements to improve occupant health and wellbeing. The ceiling over rooms is the most influential surface affecting acoustic comfort. This course reviews the four ways acoustic ceilings either absorb sound inside rooms, helps to prevent noise transmission between adjacent rooms or lessens noise from the building’s mechanical systems.

Open offices and meeting rooms demonstrate the importance of acoustic absorption and insulation

Open offices and meeting rooms demonstrate the importance of acoustic absorption and insulation

Program Overview:

The correct way to specify ceilings for each of these different roles is explained. The acoustic performance levels in the building design standards and how ceilings contribute to compliance are covered. Simply stated, this course is everything you need to know about selecting and specifying acoustic ceilings to achieve improved IEQ.

Learning Objectives:

  • Make the important link between acoustics, indoor environmental
    quality and human health and wellbeing.
  • Gain a comprehensive perspective what the building design standards
    and guidelines require from acoustic ceilings.
  • Identify if your ceilings needs to absorb sound, decrease noise from
    rooms next door, decrease noise from rooms above or lessen
    mechanical noise from equipment in the plenum.
  • Know which acoustic metrics apply to each acoustic role of the ceiling and how to correctly specify ceilings.

Credits: USA: AIA, IDCEC, USBGC, CANADA: AAA, AIBC, OAA, EPP (ALBNL, AANB, NSAA)

Length: 1 Hour

There is no cost to bring this program into your firm or chapter meeting.

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