Optimized Acoustics™
Create spaces where sound absorption, noise isolation and background sound work together to offer superior acoustic design.
Submit Your Project Download Design GuideEverywhere you look, spaces are being designed and adapted to fit the changing requirements of the built environment. Playing a leading role in creating comfortable and safe spaces, acoustic ceilings tiles have the power to impact everything from performance in schools and offices to the way patients heal in healthcare facilities. Used anywhere comfort truly matters, Rockfon acoustic ceiling systems help elevate the human experience with sound design.
Optimized Acoustics Approach
1. Select a Rockfon suspended ceiling tile to optimize acoustic absorption.
2. Where needed, use wall or plenum barriers to optimize sound insulation.
3. Ensure background sound level is within the desired range
Download the Optimized Acoustics Design Guide for a comprehensive look at acoustic standards for offices, schools and healthcare facilities.
The Optimized Acoustics™ Approach
The Optimized Acoustics approach takes into consideration how the right combination of highly absorptive stone wool or metal ceiling panels, robust walls and floor slabs, and background sound work together to optimize the acoustics in a room.
Acoustic ceiling tiles absorb the sounds in a room, reducing noise and reverberation while increasing acoustic comfort and privacy. Full-height walls or plenum barriers block noise from other rooms on the same floor, while floor slabs offer sound isolation between rooms above or below each other. The appropriate background sound level ensures that any unwanted sound that does get through is masked and not heard.
Rockfon ceiling panels comply with all acoustic ceiling requirements in building standards, including those from the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI), Green Building Initiative (GBI), Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) and others. They also meet or exceed all environmental and sustainability standards, such as the LEED® Green Rating System and the WELL™ Building Standard.
Three Steps to Optimized Acoustics
The Importance of Acoustics Extends to Every Environment
Learning: The acoustics inside classrooms determine whether students can understand their teachers.
Healing: Acoustics can improve patient and resident comfort and safety, while helping maintain caregiver and employee accuracy and productivity.
Productivity: The acoustics inside office buildings impact employee performance, attendance and retention.
Overall Wellbeing: Without appropriate acoustic design inside buildings, noise can seriously harm human health by causing short- and long-term health problems1.
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¹World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Summary of growing evidence of the impact of hazardous environments on human health.