Sound Testing Saves Saudi Projects Money
A project director on a Jeddah residential scheme once ran the numbers for me after the fact. Retrofitting acoustic insulation into forty finished units, because nobody tested a single wall
A project director on a Jeddah residential scheme once ran the numbers for me after the fact. Retrofitting acoustic insulation into forty finished units, because nobody tested a single wall
A teacher once described her classroom to me as “a room where I have to shout to be heard over the room itself,” not over the students, over the room’s
Someone emailed me once asking whether an acoustic study was just “a longer version of a noise test.” Fair question, and honestly one most people quietly wonder but never ask
Scroll through enough hotel reviews and a pattern jumps out fast. Beautiful property, stunning lobby, incredible service, five stars. Then a line buried in the middle. “Could hear everything from
Riyadh is a genuinely different city than it was five years ago. Cranes everywhere, entire districts rising around King Salman Park, the Riyadh Metro finally running, new towers stacking up
Somewhere in Riyadh right now, a project manager is scrolling through a list of consultants trying to figure out which one actually knows acoustics versus which one just lists it
A hotel opens in Riyadh, guests start checking in, and within the first month the reviews mention one thing over and over. Room noise. You can hear the elevator. You
You’re standing on a construction site in Muscat, and the compliance officer just called. Someone near the boundary wall has filed a noise complaint. You have no logs, no data,
A client in Business Bay called us in a bit of a panic last year. The fit-out was almost done, the glass partitions were up, the ceiling was in, and