Catalogues and sample folders Blog CLOSE MENU EN EN EN DA DE FR Carpets Projects Custom design Sustainability Acoustic +More Your samples 0 ... / Acoustic / How to work with acoustic design Scroll WE HELP IMPROVE ACOUSTICS FROM FLOOR TO CEILING Regulating noise is vital to human wellbeing. Simply because a healthy acoustic environment promotes desirable feelings and states of mind such as happiness, concentration and productiveness. Your interior and material choices are crucial to the physical workplace environment and therefore, we offer a premium design range of noise reducing products including acoustic carpets, acoustic rooms and acoustic panels, all of them carefully crafted to create comfortable and attractive spaces. Make your acoustic design first, then your interior design A room has many sound sources, such as airborne noise from speech or radio, structural noise from ventilation systems, tapping noise from footsteps etc. The room acoustics depend on how the sounds travel or reflect inside the room. An effective acoustic design includes elements that absorb different frequencies. While acoustic carpets absorb medium to high frequencies, acoustic rooms and acoustic panels successfully fight lower frequencies. WANT TO LEARN FROM THE BEST? Dr. Christian Nocke To ensure the best-in-class sound absorbing performance of our Acoustic Carpets, Acoustic Rooms and Acoustic Panels, we work closely together with German acoustic frontrunner Dr. Christian Nocke from Akustikbüro Oldenburg. Among other acknowledgements, Dr. Nocke is an appointed expert of the Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce, member of various standardisation DIN and ISO committees including Chairman of the DIN Committee of DIN 18041 “Acoustic quality in rooms – requirements, recommendations and instructions for planning” and Deputy Chairman of the committee recasting the directive VDI 4100 “Sound insulation between rooms in buildings – dwellings, assessments and proposals for enhanced sound insulation between rooms. ACOUSTIC DESIGN Tailored to absorb frequencies According to Dr. Nocke, an important acoustic learning is that physical loudness and perceived loudness aren't necessarily the same as other factors have an impact too. This phenomenon is known in weather forecasting as the wind chill factor, where the wind force plays a significant role in the perceived temperature. When it comes to loudness, high frequent tones are more annoying to the human ear than low frequent tones and therefore high frequencies are perceived to be louder than low frequencies, even when the volume is equal. This fact is very important prior knowledge for acoustic design that must be tailored to absorb frequencies at different levels. Whereas acoustic carpets are efficient in reducing the medium to high frequencies, acoustic rooms and acoustic panels effectively absorb the lower frequencies. YOUR CRUCIAL ACOUSTIC QUESTIONS In the sound scaping process, Dr. Nocke's most important questions to interior designers and architects are: How do you expect the room to be used? And what's your acoustic goal? A creative consultancy company doesn't have the same acoustic needs as a bookkeeping company. Therefore, knowing the future use of the space is an important basic fact. However, other topics must be addressed too and ideally all these questions are answered in the initial phase of your acoustic design process: How do you expect the room to be used (who are the users)? What’s your acoustic goal (which needs must be met)? What’s the material concept of your room (which architectural conditions are you up against)? Which interior look & feel do you want? When working with acoustic design, it’s important to understand these basic concepts: Reverberation time: The time, measured in seconds, it takes to make a sound inaudible through multiple interactions with room surfaces. A noisy acoustic environment is equal to a long reverberation time where the echo effect of the first sound wave mixes with the subsequent sound waves. Reverberation time is the most important measure to describe the acoustic goal. Sound absorption: The ability of a room surface such as a floor, wall, curtain, ceiling or piece of furniture to absorb sound. While hard, even and smooth surfaces make the sound waves reverberate directly, soft, textured and porous surfaces manage to absorb the sound waves to varying extents. The more sound absorbing materials you specify for your room surfaces and decor, the lower reverberation time you achieve. Sound insulation: The ability to soundproof an enclosed space, such as a room, to prevent sound transmissions from connected rooms whether they’re in a direct line, upstairs or downstairs. Sound insulation relates to the overall ability of a building element to reduce the sound transmission of airborne sounds such as speech or radio and impact sounds such as footsteps, slamming doors or objects being dropped to the floor. dB: The perceived loudness of a sound is described by its sound pressure level. The logarithmic decibel scale measures differently than a linear scale. The commonly used decibel scale for sound pressure level is a logarithmic scale. Doubling the sound pressure corresponds to a 3 dB increase in sound pressure level. The subjectively perceived loudness doubles by an increase of around 10 dB. So, there is a difference betwenn the physical and subjective description of the sound pressure. 0 dB is by definiton the threshold of hearing and can be observed only in highly shielded rooms. Choose acoustic solutions Acoustic Carpets Acoustic Carpets are your essential noise controlling building bricks. Due to the predominant size of the flooring surface, our acoustic carpets have a massive effect on the physical environment when absorbing different room sounds. Plus, they can help define quieter zones for concentration work and relaxation when mixed in different shapes, textures and colours. Go to acoustic carpets Acoustic Rooms Acoustic Rooms offer quiet room-in-room spaces with high level aesthetics and flexibility to meet any design requirements and future needs. In addition, their noise reducing components function as barriers to prevent sounds from travelling across the office space. Go to Acoustic Rooms Acoustic Panels Acoustic Panels are your effective add-ons that bring even more surfaces into play in the noise fighting battle. Mounted directly on strategically specified walls or ceilings, panels count as an integral part of the office acoustic design. Go to Acoustic Panels WE ARE SOCIAL Ege Carpets Industrivej Nord 25 DK-7400 Herning +45 97 11 88 11 info@egecarpets.com VAT. 38454218 Cookie policy and privacy Trends & News, yes please