04 · Soundproof rooms

Hotel Rooms

Guests judge a hotel by whether they can sleep. Most complaints come from a handful of predictable paths between rooms — and each has a detail that fixes it.

Also in soundproof rooms

Hotel acoustics is rarely about one wall. Sound reaches a guest through the party wall, the corridor door, the ceiling void above the partition, the ductwork shared between rooms, and the bathroom of the room next door. A quiet room needs all of those closed, not the best-performing one improved.

Where the paths are

  • Party walls — built to a measured performance, and carried to the slab rather than stopped at the ceiling.
  • Corridor doors — seals and thresholds, since the door is usually the weakest element.
  • Ceiling voids — the common route over the top of partitions.
  • Services — shared ducts, drainage stacks and back-to-back sockets.
  • Impact noise — footfall from the floor above, handled in the floor build-up.

Building it into the fit-out

The work sits inside the interior programme rather than beside it: wall build-ups, door sets, floor construction and duct attenuation are specified with the fit-out drawings, so nothing has to be opened up later.

Existing hotels

For a hotel already operating, we survey a sample of rooms, identify which paths are actually carrying the noise, and propose work room by room — so floors can be taken out of service in sequence rather than all at once.

Tell us the room

Send dimensions and intended use. You get back an indicative acoustic treatment, a systems outline and a budget range.