Soundproofing a Cafeteria

Sound Control Challenge:

Common eating areas including school cafeterias will typically contain hard, cleanable, reflective surfaces spread throughout the room.    As people congregate, voice reflections begin to reverberate throughout the room.   This creates a level of background noise that will drown out tabletop conversations.   In turn, voices are raised in an attempt to talk over the background noise.   This forces decibel levels in the room to climb to uncomfortable levels.   Our goal with school cafeteria design is to control the sound reflections in the room, lowering the reverberation time, cleaning out the background noise, and returning the room to normal conversational tones.

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Soundproofing Treatment:

Wall or ceiling mounted sound panels installed around the perimeter of a noisy cafeteria will capture and convert the unwanted sound wave reflections.   This will shorten reverberation times, and trigger lower levels of background noise.    As a result, original sound signals become more clear and the people in the room no longer have to shout over one another to be heard.   The products for cafeteria noise control are featured in our Product Bin.

Acoustic Results:

With less active background noise triggered by lower reverberation times, conversational tones can return to normal decibel level volumes.   As a result, kids or adults in the cafeteria will experience a more comfortable social environment.   No longer will they need to shout over one another in order to be heard, and the room becomes more comfortable for everyone.   Simulated results for soundproofing a cafeteria are broadcast in our Sound Chamber.