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Worship
Projects
Worship spaces provide community and places for
connection.
Our team supports your community in identifying the best options for meeting your acoustical performance goals. We listen to help you develop a comprehensive plan that meets your needs for religious services and community events while satisfying the aesthetic and performance goals. Acoustical performance that compliments your facility uses is an expectation, but does take foresight to ensure cost-efficient integration into your new construction or renovation.
OUR CLIENTS
Sunriver Christian Fellowship
Completed acoustical assessment and provided design support of shell space of community center being converted to sanctuary.
Evaluated the existing conditions of double-height community space that was being repurposed into a church sanctuary. Developed an acoustical design plan to meet the speech intelligibilty goals while supporting liturgical music. Collaborated with the church steering committee, contractor, and architect to find cost-efficient solutions that fit the vision for this space.
- Architectural Acoustic Design
- Acoustical Testing & Commissioning
Mount Vernon Church of the Nazarene
Completed comprehensive acoustical assessment of the sanctuary and provided phased acoustic remediation plan to enhance worship and daily use.
Evaluated the existing conditions within church sanctuary and adjacent meeting nook. Verified the root cause of complaints from staff and congregants associated with reduced speech intelligibility due to longer than desired reverberation times, elevated sound strength which increases the perception of amplified music and other noise during community events. These issues are creating challenges that are noticeably detrimental to the perception of sermons, music, and large events. Our team developed a multi-phase cost-effective remediation plan that considers the needs and limitations of this community enabling the church congregation to achieve its aspirations for the space.
- Architectural Acoustic Design
- Building Systems Noise & Vibration Control
- Acoustical Testing & Commissioning
Chapel Hill Church
Completed sound isolation assessment between basement youth ministries “arena” and upper floor main sanctuary to developed remediation plan to allow services to run concurrently.
The youth ministries music and activities were regularly perceptible within the main sanctuary and a concern for the congretation. Our team completed a sound transmission asssessment from the suspended speakers and airborne sound, to evaluate the impact from singing and clapping. The measured performance was compared to the constructed floor-ceiling assembly. A detailed acoustic mitigation plan was engineered to improve the sound isolation to meet the performance goals for these adjacencies. Our team also evaluated the HVAC noise impacting the youth ministries / dining area.
- Architectural Acoustic Design
- Building Systems Noise & Vibration Control
- Acoustical Testing & Commissioning
Seattle Laestadian Lutheran Church
Completed audit based on concerns from choral director. Identified common construction conditions that negatively impact the full-frequency response performance needed to support liturgical music.
Measured the existing conditions within church sanctuary. The impulse reponse tests identified some musical shortcoming that explained the concerns voiced by the choral direction. Developed a short-term and long-term acosutical optimization plan for the community to bring the space up to their performance goals.
- Architectural Acoustic Design
- Acoustical Testing & Commissioning
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