Lambert’s Point Community Center – Custom cut AlphaSorb® wall panels to fit into designer’s look and acoustic control.
When soundproofing a multipurpose room, the ultimate goal is to provide a space with premium-quality acoustics for all occasions. As the name implies, a multipurpose room can host a variety of events. It could be gatherings sized for sporting events or just for donuts and coffee with colleagues. The success of the event may rely on the ability of the guest to enjoy the space. As the guests fill a room, sounds in the room begin to reflect off the walls. As this background noise accumulates, the room begins to echo, and the speech intelligibly suffers.
Multipurpose rooms can be a variety of shapes and constructed with an assortment of materials. Some may be more like a gymnasium with high rafter ceilings and cinder block walls. Some may be like fellowship halls and community centers with carpet or tile floors, drywall, and T-bar ceilings. To address these concerns, we must analyze each type of multipurpose room. Noise that reflects off of any hard surface is the number one culprit of poor acoustics. To limit the amount of hard, reflective surfaces, you must add sound absorptive materials.
If the multipurpose room is designed for sports, like a typical gymnasium, we recommend you read soundproofing a gymnasium. For medium to large spaces, fabric wrapped acoustical panels and ceiling clouds offer a high-quality look over typical types of sound baffles used in most gymnasiums. Alternatively, suspending acoustic foam clouds creates a designer ceiling. There are also direct-to-ceiling options. In some spaces, Polyphon™ Polyester Panels with mechanical fasteners or acoustical foam glued to the ceiling make great alternatives to other ceiling treatments. The best part is that you wouldn’t even realize there is an acoustical treatment in the room unless you looked up!
Desired Results
When soundproofing a multipurpose room, the mission may vary depending on the activities taking place in the space. That being said, if you intend on having events with amplified sound, you will want to add enough material to get the reverberation (RT60) down to about 1.5 seconds in the speech frequencies.
Acoustic Materials For Soundproofing A Multipurpose Room
AlphaEnviro® PVC Sound Baffles
AlphaSorb® Fabric Wrapped Acoustic Panels
AlphaSorb® Fabric Wrapped Acoustic Ceiling Cloud
AlphaEnviro® Ripstop Sound Baffle
PolyPhon™ Polyester Acoustic Ceiling Tiles
Whisperwave® Ceiling Cloud
Featured Applications
Blairland Baptist Church – PolyPhon™ panels on upper walls of room to reduce flutter echo.
Christ Church of Arlington – Sonex® Whisperwave® Clouds in ceiling to reduce noise and increase speech intelligibility.
Collin College Preston Ridge Conference Center lined the walls with fabric wrapped panels.
Fannin County Multipurpose Complex using fabric wrapped panels around the perimeter of the room.
Grand Horizons Community Center utilizing the Whisperwave® Suspended Ceiling Clouds.
Helen Mills Event Space and Theater installed PolyPhon™ direct to the surface of the ceiling.
Lambert’s Point Community Center – Custom cut AlphaSorb® wall panels to fit into designer’s look and acoustic control.
San Geronimo Community Presbyterian Church is using direct mount acoustical panels.
Tuckahoe Presbyterian Church – Ceiling cloud layout to account for can lights and chandeliers.
To learn more about how Acoustical Solutions can solve your noise control problems, use our contact form, call one of our Acoustical Sales Consultants at (800) 782-5742, or visit us on the web at acousticalsolutions.com.
