Festival Season 2024 is well and truly upon the dBx Acoustics team, and as ever we are loving being out in the fresh air and hearing some great music.
Highlights so far include;
Our first festival of the year, and always a very civilised way to start. The weather wasn’t too kind this year but seeing Dionne Warwick and Robert Plant definitely made up for that. This was Simon’s first festival, which may have lulled him into a false sense of security before we headed to…
Boy, did it rain. By the time the festival opened this year, we were very glad we had brought our wellies! Despite the weather, which in the past has never been anything other than glorious, the wonderful Bearded Theory crowd are always a pleasure to be a part of, dealing with the mud with a smile and enjoying the party.
It was our first year at Cheltenham Pride, and what a great day it was. Susan got her nose pierced in a moment of madness (is that another part of the mid-life crisis?), Scooby entered the dog show, and we had some lovely feedback from residents about how well the noise levels were controlled. Hoping this will become a regular fixture in our calendar.
Still to come this year, we’ll be revisiting our friends at WOMAD, Beautiful Days and End of the Road, and perhaps a few more…if you have an event that needs noise monitoring by our expert team, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!
dBx Acoustics worked with TTSP architects and project managers Storey on the fit out of two floors in London’s iconic ‘Scalpel’ building. The project created an activity based, agile workspace for the new European HQ for enterprise software company SAP.
The client provided in-house US acoustic design standards to us as our starting point. As the standards vary from UK terminology in several subtle ways, our first task was to review the requirements and convert them into a specification that could be used to tender the fit-out using a UK contractor.
During the work we identified areas where the specification was inconsistent or unclear and helped the client to develop a more coherent and well-defined set of acoustic requirements.
The fit-out included open plan office areas, a suite of meeting rooms, breakout and cafe space and quiet working areas. Speech privacy between meeting rooms was initially challenging due to the landlord’s limitations on connections to the mullions and the desire to have an open ceiling with suspended rafts. Good design and detailing ensured that, upon commissioning, the required level of speech privacy was achieved.
As SAP’s European HQ, the fit-out also includes an open plan area which can be used as a presentation space for external clients. Excellent speech intelligibility throughout this area was a key requirement and an acoustic model of the space was created to establish the most effective quantity and placement of acoustic treatments.
The project was completed in Spring 2021. You can find out more about the HQ here.