Challenges

• To minimize construction costs, demountable walls are being installed which only extend up to the ceiling, not to the deck, allowing spillover of sound through the plenum into adjacent work areas.
• Workers expect a level of speech privacy in collaborative spaces, such as conference rooms, that is rarely accomplished with the construction techniques being used.

Cambridge Sound Management sound masking systems

• Cover sound that “spills” between adjacent work environments.
• Mask conversations in adjoining hallways from being distracting to conference room meeting participants.
• Mask conversations in conference rooms from being overheard in adjoining offices or hallways.
• Increase client comfort when discussing legal matters.

Challenges

• Interview rooms and processing areas have walls built to the ceiling not to the deck, leading to ineffective sound blocking.
• Overhearing statements can pose a threat to both witness and victim safety.

Cambridge Sound Management sound masking systems

• Help provide speech privacy in the processing areas, interview rooms, and corridors to protect the rights of the accused, while minimizing construction costs.
• Increase speech privacy in interview rooms, allowing victims and witnesses to give full statements confidentially.

Challenges

• Sidebar meetings, discussions between clients and attorneys, discussions between judge and counsel, and jury deliberations can easily be overheard within the courtroom.
• Unwanted noise from the adjoining corridors can interrupt court proceedings.
• Confidential proceeding conversations can be overheard in adjacent courtrooms or in adjoining public areas.

Cambridge Sound Management sound masking systems

• Enhance the privacy of sidebar conversations.
• Help to make jury deliberations and conversations between clients and their counsel unintelligible to others.
• Allow private conversations between judge and counsel without fear of the jury or clients overhearing.
• Reduce distractions from unwanted noise and conversations within and surrounding the courtroom.

Challenges

• An increase in operating costs has led businesses to maximize existing space, leading to more employees in the same workspace.
• With smaller workstation footprints, noise levels increase significantly and worker speech privacy decreases.
• Cubicle wall heights have dropped significantly to enable better worker collaboration and provide a more open environment.
• Most worker mistakes and lower individual productivity can be attributed to workplace distractions such as overheard conversations.

Cambridge Sound Management sound masking systems

• Improve worker performance nearly 10% by reducing conversational distractions (per scientific research). 
• Address the need for acoustic treatment outlined in upcoming LEED Commercial Interiors Certification. Also mitigates the acoustic issues created by windows to meet the LEED requirement for daylighting and views.