Services  ·  Hospitality

Shaping the atmosphere

Restaurants, bars, hotels and leisure spaces where you can enjoy the ambience and still hear your table.

A single pendant light against a timber-slat ceiling
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What the sector needs

Rooms get louder the busier they get: as a space fills, people raise their voices to be heard, which makes everyone else raise theirs again. Hard finishes make the effect worse, while the neighbours upstairs and across the lane are counting decibels. Sound systems and live music require the same careful attention, balancing clarity, coverage and patron experience with the acoustic demands of the space. The craft is keeping the right level of energy inside and the complaints away, without compromising the architecture.

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The Lombard effect in a dining space: as the background noise rises, people raise their voices, which raises the background noise again. Considered acoustic design can break the loop, so the level settles where the conversation survives.

Our capabilities include

  • Restaurant and hospitality acoustic design
  • Room acoustic design and modelling
  • Reverberation and noise build-up control
  • Acoustic finishes and material selection
  • Internal wall, floor and façade sound insulation design
  • Building services noise and vibration control
  • Entertainment and amplified music noise assessment
  • Environmental noise and patron noise assessment
  • Acoustic input to planning, layouts and operational conditions
  • Site testing, commissioning and performance verification
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