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Corporate Acoustical Projects

Applied Materials, San Jose, CA

Reel Grobman & Associates

Selected acoustical wall finishes for the Vice President's office, a conference room, and the secretary's alcove.

Aspect Telecommunications, San Jose, CA

Devcon Construction Inc.

Office acoustics and sound masking system design to improve speech privacy in the open-plan office areas.

Bank of America - 485 California St., San Francisco, CA

Simon Martin Vegue Winkelstein & Moris

Acoustical review and recommendations for speech privacy within an open-plan office area of the bank.

Bank of America - 50 California St., San Francisco, CA

Interior Architects, Inc.

Tenant improvements in a high-rise which included controlling mechanical noise in 2 fan rooms and designing a sound masking system for the 28th floor.

Bank of America - 333 Market Street, San Francisco, CA

Simon Martin Vegue Winkelstein & Moris

Sound masking system design for 7,200 square feet of open-plan office space. Developed sound isolation details to control transfer of noise between the lobby and the offices.

Bank of America - 799 Market St., San Francisco, CA

Bank of America Corporate Real Estate

Measured sound levels created by street musicians playing drums outside an office building. Determined methods for dealing with the intrusive noise.

Bank of America - Livermore Depot Dispatch Center, Livermore, CA

Bank of America Corporate Real Estate

Wall and ceiling acoustic finishes and construction method recommendations for a new office space and mail room area.

Franklin Resources Inc. - Capital Center, Rancho Cordova, CA

Devcon Construction, Inc.

Room acoustics, sound isolation, and HVAC noise control recommendations for conference center and fitness area.

Genentech, Building 25, San Francisco, CA

Barrett Quezada Architecture

Acoustical review of construction documentation for a new office facility. Issues included speech privacy and sound isolation between audio and video conferencing rooms, offices, and break rooms.

Hewlett-Packard - Building 42, Cupertino, CA

Ehrlich-Rominger

Sound masking system and Public Address system design for a combination office/ manufacturing facility in a 2-story, 104,000 square foot building.

International Network Services, Sunnyvale, CA

Initial project consisted of mechanical noise and vibration control for a 5-story, 140,000 square foot facility. Later project involved the design of an audiovisual system program for a Briefing Center to be used for product training and lectures. Teleconferencing is built into the speech reinforcement system, which also supports computer audio and CDs. A ceiling-mounted LCD projector displays VHS and computer inputs onto a 60"x80" screen, while a document camera will record certain activities.

John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, CA

Thistlethwaite Architectural Group

Noise mitigation recommendations for HVAC rooftop unit above an office area.

Johnson Wax Development Corporation - Horizon Center, San Jose, CA

Reel/Grobman & Associates

Reviewed project drawings for the lobby area and recommended wall and ceiling finishes to provide a comfortable acoustic setting.

Kaiser Permanente - Geary Campus Medical Office Building, San Francisco, CA

Anshen + Allen

Sound isolation, mechanical noise and vibration control, and room acoustics for a multi-story medical center located in downtown San Francisco.

Kaiser Permanenete - Santa Theresa Medical Office Building 4, San Jose, CA

Kaplan/McLaughlin/Diaz

Sound isolation, room acoustics, and mechanical noise and vibration control for a 3 story, 99,000 square foot facility. Concerns included sound isolation between exam rooms and offices, and the transfer of mechanical noise from rooftop air handlers to adjacent exam areas. Reviewed and commented on the acoustical impact of exterior environmental noise.

Lam Research Technical Services, Palo Alto, CA

Ambiance Associates

Selected acoustical room finishes for an open-plan office area with 20 employees.

Leonard Rayfield, CPA, Emeryville, CA

Acoustical wall fabric recommendations for a new office area.

MCI Telecommunications, Hayward, CA

Goldsworthy Architectural Group

Sound isolation for the Liebert unit located next to a training room.

Northern Telecom, Santa Clara, CA

STUDIOS Architecture

Studied proposed atrium area of an office building to make recommendations for wall and ceiling finishes which would control echoes.

Orloff, Williams and Perham, Davis, CA

Reel/Grobman & Associates

Recommendations to improve speech privacy within an office facility.

Pinnacle Systems, San Jose, CA

RMW Architecture + Design

Room acoustics, sound isolation and noise control during a large office building remodel. The building has training rooms, a board and conference room, open-plan engineering areas and offices. The client was concerned with the large rooftop HVAC unit, and controlling the transfer of noise between areas because of the exposed roof structure design.

Quantum Headquarters, Building 1, Milpitas, CA

Barrett Quezada Architecture

Acoustical consulting for a new office building. The facility contains classrooms, conference rooms, an exercise room, a multipurpose room, a laboratory, and work areas.

Salomon Brothers, San Francisco, CA

Interior Architects, Inc.

For this investment banking firm, we provided sound isolation details for office partitions; room acoustics in the conference rooms; and noise dampening for the Liebert units.

San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco, CA

Mock/Wallace Architects

Determined source of sound leak from restaurant below publisher's office. Provided details to increase the sound isolation with improved window constructions.

Sony - Western Regional Operations Center, San Jose, CA

Barrett Quezada Architecture

HVAC noise control for a new 60-ton rooftop unit positioned above an open-plan office area.

Tandem Computers - Building 200, Cupertino, CA

Tandem Computers, Inc.

Tested sound isolation between offices and the conference room to find sound leaks. Made suggestions to seal leaks and expand the sound masking system.

Tandem Computers - Building 208, Cupertino, CA

The Steinberg Group

Sound masking system design and acoustic wall finishes for 6,000 square feet of open-plan office space. When later remodeling turned a number of classrooms and laboratories into open plan and private offices, additional recommendations were given for sound isolation between classrooms, offices, and open plan areas.

The Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA

Hawley Peterson & Snyder

HVAC noise and vibration control and acoustics recommendations for the renovation of an open-plan office building.

Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., Camas, WA

Hawley, Peterson & Snyder

Provided computer modeling (Binauralizationä) of the lobby. Identified acoustical treatments for the curved lobby walls to decrease reverberation problems.

Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisors - Plaza Park Tower, Sacramento, CA

STUDIOS Architecture

Acoustical consulting for 31,000 square feet in office space located on two floors of a tower. The area includes conference rooms, a lunch room, training rooms, open plan office areas, and support areas. Also developed noise control methods for the computer room.

VeriFone, Santa Clara, CA

DES Architects

Mechanical noise and vibration control for a 5-story, 140,000 square foot facility.

GSA - Old Ironsides, Santa Clara, CA

Vanderson, Inc.

Verified sound isolation results for partitions in an office area.

Willoughby Stuart & Bening Law Offices, San Jose, CA

RMW Architecture + Design

Reviewed project drawings to report on details concerning speech privacy and room acoustics in the lobby, conference rooms, and offices in this 10,000 square foot facility.

Tanabe Research Laboratories, San Diego, CA

Kornberg Associates

Design of a new research laboratory which contains offices, conference rooms, and research facilities. Project included controlling exhaust fan noise and ensuring conversation privacy between seminar, board, and conference rooms