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Acoustics

Skilled acoustic engineering helps create auditoria that enhance musical performance, classrooms where teachers are better heard and libraries that feel blissfully distant from the outside world.

Max Fordham’s team of specialist Acousticians has experience of designing, engineering and delivering outstanding acoustic environments in complex performance venues, residences, sports centres, offices, libraries and schools.

Our specialist Acousticians offer creative solutions that function in sympathy with the building. They craft fully integrated, passive and sustainable designs, avoiding unnecessary acoustic treatment.

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    At Fairfield Halls, the internationally renowned acoustic environment has been preserved and further improved by adding a series of motorised acoustic banners to allow the acoustic to be varied for different types of performance.
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    Our acoustic design for the Dorothy Garrod Building at Newnham College Cambridge provides high levels of sound insulation between student bedrooms and uses acoustic timber panelling in social and teaching space.
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    Apartments that face the elevated railway at Mint Street feature winter gardens to protect inhabitants for noise ingress. Ventilation is provided from the quieter rear facade.
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    The internal environments of covered pitches and sports halls at Oriam Sports Performance Centre have been simulated, designed and tested to ensure acoustic comfort and speech intelligibility.
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    A bespoke perforation pattern was applied to timber panels at City of London Freemen’s School in order to balance the acoustics in the 250-seat recital hall.
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    The natural ventilation strategy at The Hive in Worcester required a very open and airy design. We analysed noise transfer between areas and found the best locations for acoustic treatment to control it.
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    Keynsham Town Hall offices are constructed from cross-laminated timber. Acoustically attenuated openings control traffic noise intrusion to open-plan offices.'

Acoustics

Featured Case Study

Oriam Sports Performance Centre
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