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The role of sound masking treatment in the value engineering of office designs
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Volume 119, Issue 5, pp. 3351-3351 (2006); (1 page)
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Add to FacebookFor over 50 years sound masking systems have often been included in the design and planning of office spaces because the owner understood that they are required to provide adequate speech privacy, or because he believed they can create a more pleasing and private acoustic environment. However, installations have rarely been considered on the basis of project value engineering or return on investment. In this paper, we argue that sound masking systems should in fact be considered not only as a stand‐alone cost component of the office design, but evaluated along with ceiling tile, private office wall construction, and workstation design for their mutual impact on the overall project budget, instead of solely on their contribution to acoustical performance. With over 70 years of combined experience dealing with speech privacy issues and masking systems of all kinds, we provide typical project data to demonstrate that contemporary systems often can result in substantial overall project cost savings.
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