If you’ve ever tried to sleep, work, or even just live in a noisy environment, you’ll understand just how stressful it can be. Simple things like resting and focusing can become very difficult due to unwanted background noises.
Low noise environments stimulate better quality sleep, improved focus, and better health overall. For these reasons developers are increasingly prioritising the creation of low noise spaces. Something that requires better building architecture, and smart placing of sanitary rooms and kitchen, and isolation products.
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Architects, planners, and installers must all consider sound insulation when designing and constructing modern buildings. This might begin with designing an effective floor plan and end with installing the right pipe system. With modern sound insulation technology, achieving low noise in a building should not require compromising on aesthetics. The design phase is essential for ensuring this.
Achieving Optimal Sound Insulation in the Design Phase
By opting for insulated windows and exterior walls, and optimising the acoustics of a building with clever planning, architects can prevent external noise from reaching interior spaces. When this is done though, it amplifies internal noises. Sounds from drainage systems and drinking water pipes can become irritating when external noise is removed.
Architects can minimise these internal noises by identifying which rooms in a building require acoustical protection and deducing the most effective way to protect each room. This should involve a combination of strategic design, material selection, and installation techniques. For example, placing the manhole for the main drainage and drinking water supply in the optimal location will reduce related noise. Combining this with a low noise pipe system and brackets should effectively eliminate it altogether. Depending on the situation, additional wall or pipe isolation can be applied.
Avoiding open floor plans, placing curtain or partition walls where suitable, and using walls with high mass are other ways architects can minimise internal noise through design.
Wavin Offers Consulting and an useful Tool During the Design Phase
From the examples above it’s clear that selecting the appropriate products before the construction phase begins is crucial, but using cutting-edge sound insulation products alone is not sufficient. Selecting appropriate building products with the right properties dry walls, bricks, shaft insulation, low noise piping system, sanitary elements is necessary, but also the way of installation is important to control noise levels inside the building. It is the combination of construction technology and mechanical installations which allows architects and planners to achieve adequate noise reduction.
We support architects and planners in the design phase by offering them advice, free technical consultation, and the right products for their project needs.
Low noise solutions as Wavin AS+ and Wavin SiTech+ are both excellent options . Both are used in the low noise application with Wavin AS+ being the premium option and Wavin SiTech+ the more cost efficient solution. It guarantees optimal sound reduction due to the high density of the material. The projects can use it combined (Mix&Match) to achieve the best result in quality and costs.
We also offer a SoundCheck tool (LINK) which allows users to easily calculate the level of noise reduction their projects achieve. Just click the link in the text above and you can instantly start assessing your own project!
