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Developers, owners, and tenants of single and multi-family housing often require specific degrees of acoustic separation between adjoining interior spaces, between neighboring dwelling units, and between interior spaces and outdoor sources.  Parties seek guidance on designs of new constructions and improvements to existing constructions and finishes to provide proper sound and impact isolation.  Local and state building codes may specify minimum degrees of acoustics isolation of multiple dwelling units in terms of Sound Transmission Class and Impact Isolation Class.  Often  these code values are not high enough to satisfy sensitive building occupants. HUD provides alternate guidance on goals for sound and impact isolation between specific pairs of adjoining rooms for various grades of housing., Which are used as further design references  

Local building codes usually do not  specify degrees of outdoor-indoor sound transmission loss.  HUD alternately provides guidance on acceptable levels of background noise in dwelling units transmitted from the outdoors.

Aurora Acoustical Consultants advises building owners and architects on means to optimize new residential building designs and to renovate existing buildings for indoor and outdoor sound insulation.  We provide reviews of architectural plans and compare designs to published and modeled construction ratings and to the applicable building codes to evaluate the acoustic suitability of the designs.  

We also perform field tests of sound and impact transmission between constructed residential spaces, between residences under construction, and between outdoor and indoor spaces.  The findings are used to evaluate performance in comparison to field test requirements of applicable building codes and other criteria, and to develop recommendations for improvements to demising constructions.and room finishes that may be desired. The field testing follows procedures of ASTM sound and impact transmission testing and ratings standards.

We provide recommendations for interior ceiling and wall finishes to reduce annoying reverberation, and for floor finishes to reduce footfall impacts