Project: Beginning to End – Biltmore Park Clubhouse
Occasionally, we get the opportunity to show the entire process that goes into a project, and today we have one which we will run through – beginning to end.
Biltmore Park clubhouse was getting a full aesthetic and acoustic makeover. Acoustics First® was asked to collaborate with Harmony Interiors on the acoustic panel recommendations for this project. After an initial consultation, a layout was developed that would attain the desired effect.
Along with this layout, a pre and post treatment acoustic performance was predicted and supplied.
The prescribed treatment should take the reverb time from 2-3 seconds down to around 1 second.
After the treatment was approved and ordered, the panels were manufactured and supplied to the customer for install. This installation included several Sonora® panels for the ceiling, and others for the walls. After the customer received the order, Harmony Interiors began the installation.
Z-bars are mounted to the Sonora® panels to facilitate hanging.Using a cardboard template to help mark the wall bar locations, the mating Z-bars are installed to allow the Sonora® panels to be mounted easily.The Sonora® panels are hung by mating the z-bars on the panel with those on the wall.Ceiling sections are installed using the initial layout as a guide.Final configuration of the panels when completed. (Upper room and ceiling.)Sonora® panels installed on the lower walls of the clubhouse.
BONUS! This is often all the information we receive… along with some comments about how great the room sounds. But on this occasion, we were able to obtain a full before and after comparison of the effects of the treatment!
Video of the room – pre and post treatment!
The Harmony Interiors installation crew had the foresight to shoot a bit of video highlighting the sound of the room just before and immediately following the installation of the Sonora® panels.This is certainly an ear opener!
The second benefit of getting this before-and-after comparison video is that we were able to critique our initial predictions of the pre- and post-treatment reverb times.
The analysis shows a pre-treatment RT-60 of about 2.4 seconds and a post-treatment RT-60 time of roughly 1.2 seconds. This is right in line with the performance predictions that were calculated in the very beginning of the consultation!
We hope you enjoyed seeing this acoustic project from the initial consultation and layout phase, through the installation, and to completion.
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