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Why Do Schools Need Acoustic Treatment?

Classrooms are noisy, students can't hear clearly during class.

Classroom walls and ceilings are mostly hard structures, with many glass windows, prone to sound reflections, resulting in excessive reverberation time and low speech clarity, making it difficult for students to hear clearly during teacher lectures.

Teachers strain their voices during lectures leading to occupational hazards.

To ensure students in both the front and back rows can hear clearly, teachers often strain their voices during lectures, leading to vocal strain, a significant occupational hazard among teachers.

"Premium Area" vs. "Relaxed Area" seating disputes.

To ensure students in both the front and back rows can hear clearly, teachers often strain their voices during lectures, leading to vocal strain, a significant occupational hazard among teachers.

Substandard acoustics lead to low space utilization rates.

Spaces like theaters, gymnasiums, etc., often located near the periphery of schools, if not acoustically treated, suffer from poor acoustics due to
surrounding environmental noise, mechanical equipment noise, and inherent acoustic flaws, resulting in substandard acoustic experiences and wasted space.

Improving sound environments enhances teaching quality.

Improving school sound environments can effectively enhance teaching quality from various aspects such as students' learning experiences, teachers' job satisfaction, and artistic excellence, ultimately improving student performance.

How to Perform Acoustic Design for Different Scenarios in Educational Spaces?

Different scenarios require specifAcoustic scenarios in educational spaces, besides basic classrooms, also include music rooms, libraries, multipurpose halls, conference rooms, gymnasiums, etc., each with unique acoustic environments and requirements. ic acoustic analysis and tailored acoustic design and treatment, avoiding generalization.

01.

Classrooms
Classrooms are the main places where students engage in school activities and where teachers deliver lectures. 
Everyone gathers here to communicate and collaborate mainly through language.
 Acoustic Standards For Classrooms:Building bulletin 93 : Acoustic design of schools: Performance standards, february 2015.
 Acoustic Requirements:
Objective requirements for classrooms include good speech clarity and uniform sound field. For larger volume classrooms, sufficient loudness and clear, undistorted speech are necessary. Subjective requirements include clear communication for students at the back and ease of speaking for teachers.
 Acoustic Measures:
> 1. Maintain sufficient noise protection distance between teaching spaces and traffic routes. Use corridors, sports venues, etc., as noise barrier areas to avoid traffic noise interference in classrooms.
> 2. Prefer room shapes like fan-shaped, trapezoidal, or hexagonal to avoid acute angle corners. Avoid spherical, circular, square, or oval rooms to prevent inherent acoustic defects.
> 3. Install efficient acoustic ceiling absorbers like Winego micro-perforated Acoustic Panels to improve speech clarity and absorb mid-to-low frequency noise energy.
> 4. If there are no large daylighting windows on the side walls of the classroom, arrange winego acoustic materials like micro-perforated acoustic panels, MLS sound-absorbing diffusers, etc.
> 5. Apply sound absorption treatment to the rear wall of the classroom to prevent acoustic defects such as echo.

02.

Vocal Studios Rehearsal Rooms
Classrooms are the main places where students engage in school activities and where teachers deliver lectures. 
Everyone gathers here to communicate and collaborate mainly through language.
 Acoustic Measures:Building Bulletin 93 : Acoustic design of schools: performance standards, February 2015.
 Acoustic Requirements:
Vocal studios and rehearsal rooms require high musical clarity, uniform sound field, and distortion-free acoustic environments to allow instructors to easily listen to students' music performances in detail and provide guidance and correction. For important venues like symphony rehearsal halls, adjustable reverberation designs are needed, with short reverberation to allow conductors to easily detect defects in the arrangement of various sections; long reverberation to match the feeling of being in an actual concert hall.
 Acoustic Measures:
> 1. Alternate absorption and diffusion treatment for rooms. Install Five Rams MLS sound-absorbing diffusers on all four walls to improve the clarity, stereophonic effect, and spatial sensation of the sound field.
> 2. Appropriately install acoustic diffusers and absorbent materials on the ceiling to absorb or diffuse sound energy from the ceiling, preventing parallel surfaces with the floor, suppressing flutter echo acoustic defects.
> 3. Prefer room shapes like fan-shaped, trapezoidal, or hexagonal to avoid acute angle corners. Avoid spherical, circular, square, or oval rooms to prevent inherent acoustic defects.

03.

Multipurpose Halls Lecture Halls Auditoriums
 Acoustic Measures:ISO 3382-1:2009 Acoustics — Measurement of room acoustic parameters — Part 1: Performance spaces.
 Acoustic Requirements:
Clear and authentic speech, resonant and full music, even sound distribution, and absence of significant acoustic defects are essential. Proper room size, absorption, and diffusion designs are needed to achieve optimal sound quality.
 Acoustic Measures:
> 1. Determine the hall's function, calculate each volume, and partition dynamically to avoid indoor and outdoor noise interference.
> 2. Prefer room shapes like fan-shaped, trapezoidal, or hexagonal to avoid acute angle corners. Avoid spherical, circular, or oval rooms to prevent inherent acoustic defects.
> 3. Install Winego MLS sound-absorbing diffusers alternately with acoustic panels on the side walls to improve sound field uniformity and prevent flutter echo.
> 4. Apply sound absorption treatment to the rear wall to prevent acoustic defects like echo.
> 5.Use winego perforated acoustic products on the stage wall for strong absorption treatment. Ensure the stage's reverberation time aligns with the auditorium to prevent sound coupling.
> 6. Hire experienced acoustical designers to utilize various technical means like 2D/3D acoustic line analysis, optimization design, computer acoustic simulation, sound listening tests, and acoustic testing to improve hall sound quality.

04.

Meeting Room
Meeting rooms are where teachers hold meetings, small-scale teaching, academic discussions, and student club meetings. These rooms often have small cubic or rectangular volumes and require privacy.
 Acoustic Measures:Building Bulletin 93 : Acoustic design of schools: performance standards, February 2015.
 Acoustic Requirements:
Good sound environment is crucial for excellent meeting rooms, ensuring efficient information transmission. Proper acoustic treatment is needed to maintain speech clarity and prevent acoustic defects in small-volume meeting rooms, along with adequate sound isolation to avoid noise interference.
 Acoustic Measures:
> 1. Use lightweight construction Five Rams Artistic Crown soundproof panels instead of traditional gypsum boards for sound isolation to prevent sound transmission between meeting rooms and avoid noise disturbance to open-plan offices.
> 2. Avoid glass partitions between meeting rooms and ensure partition height extends to the floor or ceiling.
> 3. Choose decorative acoustic panels for wall finishes to prevent standing wave acoustic defects and enhance the meeting room's aesthetics.
> 4. Install efficient acoustic ceiling absorbers like fabric acoustic panels, artistic space absorbers, or micro-perforated acoustic panels to ensure excellent speech clarity.
> 5. Avoid using spherical, circular, or oval room shapes to prevent inherent acoustic defects.

05.

Theater
 Acoustic Standards:《ISO3382:2008 Acoustics Measurement of the reverberation time of rooms with reference to other acoustical parameters》《Concert Halls and Opera Houses" 》by Leo Beranek.
 Acoustic Requirements:
Theaters come in various types, including opera houses, drama theaters, spoken drama theaters, and multipurpose halls. Among them, spoken drama theaters mainly focus on spoken language performances; opera and drama performances involve singing and musical accompaniment, sometimes including dialogues, thus requiring acoustic designs to ensure both language clarity and musical richness.
Excellent acoustics are essential for theaters to gain international renown, as neglecting acoustic considerations often leads to auditory disasters after construction. From the initial project proposal and site selection to project completion, acoustic consultants' assistance is necessary to recommend appropriate measures.
 Acoustic Measures:
> 1. Reasonable zoning to avoid indoor and outdoor noise interference.
> 2. Determine the hall's functions and calculate the volume of each seat.
> 3. Optimize room shapes such as fan-shaped, trapezoidal, or hexagonal to avoid acute angles and congenital acoustic defects.
> 4. Use diffusion designs with MLS acoustic diffusers on the ceiling and side walls to evenly distribute sound.
> 5. Apply absorption and diffusion treatments on the audience hall's rear wall and box seats to prevent echo defects.
> 6. Ensure consistent reverberation time between the stage and audience hall to avoid sound coupling.
> 7. Install perforated acoustic panel from Winego on the stage walls for strong absorption treatment.
> 8. Hire experienced acoustic designers to utilize various techniques such as 2D/3D ray tracing analysis, optimization of room shapes, computer acoustic simulations, sound listening tests, and acoustic testing to improve the hall's sound quality.

06.

Library Reading Room
 Acoustic Standards:Building Bulletin 93 : Acoustic design of schools: performance standards, February 2015.
 Acoustic Requirements:
A serene and comfortable acoustic environment is integral to an excellent library. Reading rooms, in particular, are spaces where readers spend extended periods, often sharing space with book collections or located within library atriums and corridors. With frequent human activity and potential noise sources, it's essential to scientifically absorb and reduce noise to avoid disrupting readers' concentration and causing auditory fatigue. Installing acoustic absorption materials in libraries effectively improves the acoustic environment in reading rooms, enhancing reader comfort and fostering a healthy reading atmosphere.
 Acoustic Measures:
> 1. Installing strong sound-absorbing ceilings (such as WINEGO artistic spatial absorption bodies or spatial absorption bodies) significantly reduces reverberation and effectively lowers noise levels in libraries.
> 2. Placing fabric acoustic panels, micro-perforated acoustic panels, and perforated acoustic panels on walls in high-noise areas like reception desks and multimedia classrooms promptly absorbs noise, preventing noise diffusion affecting large groups of readers.
> 3. Installing soundproof booths in locations like elevator areas, corridors, and atriums serves as telephone booths, effectively preventing individual conversations from disturbing a wide range of readers.

07.

Public Spaces Corridors
 Acoustic Standards:Building Bulletin 93 : Acoustic design of schools: performance standards, February 2015.
 Acoustic Measures:
> 1. Implementing strong sound absorption treatment on the ceilings of indoor corridors, such as installing perforated wood acoustic ceilings, spatial absorption bodies, or artistic fabric absorption panels, promptly absorbs adverse reflective sounds, preventing sound from bouncing between the ceiling and floor, propagating over long distances.
> 2. Placing micro-perforated acoustic panels on indoor corridor walls absorbs excess sound energy from foot traffic, preventing the accumulation of noise energy and avoiding instances of excessive noise levels.
 Acoustic Requirements:
Student corridors are vital hubs connecting various teaching spaces. To prevent them from becoming conduits for sound transmission and causing adverse acoustic defects such as flanking noise between adjacent classrooms, strong sound absorption treatment is required. Effective noise reduction in these areas protects the auditory health of students and teachers.
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