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Acoustical Enclosure in Downtown Calgary

Posted by Mauricio Salinas on April 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Acoustical enclosure on the rooftop of a building in a congested downtown area

Bringing Design to Reality

Back in 2022, a mixed-use building in the Downtown East Village neighborhood of Calgary, AB, managed by the Calgary Housing Corporation, was identified as violating the city’s noise bylaws due to excessive noise emitted by its air-conditioning condensers. To address the issue, the city had initially planned to purchase and relocate new low-noise variable refrigerant flow (VRF) condensers.

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Topics: Acoustics, Noise Control, Acoustic Louvers, Acoustic Panels, Engineering, Design Engineering

Inside Price: Winnipeg Headquarters

Posted by Price Industries on January 24, 2023 at 9:57 AM

New sitting area with team members meeting

Renovated, Expanded Space Creates a Living Showroom

We are continually adding talented individuals to the Price team, and in 2018 it was clear that our office space at our headquarters in Winnipeg, MB, was bursting at the seams. Team members were sharing offices, working in hallways and competing for meeting room space. Plans for the expansion of the Golspie North production space were already underway, and it seemed like the perfect time to expand and renovate our offices.

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Topics: Noise Control, Acoustic Panels, GRD, Diffusers, Displacement, HVAC Fundamentals, Employees, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering, Architecture, Critical Environments, Filtration

What Is an Acoustic Panel?

Posted by Price Industries on October 25, 2022 at 9:25 AM

Modern boardroom with acoustic panels installed on wall

Controlling Unwanted Noise from the Source to the Receiver

An acoustic panel is one of many names that describe a modular component used to block or absorb noise where it’s unwanted. Also known as a double-walled panel, sandwich panel, insulated panel, thermal panel, double-walled ductwork or plenum wall, this engineered building element contains or reduces sound energy at different stages along the path that sound travels from the source to the receiver.

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Topics: Acoustics, Noise Control, Noise Solution, Background Noise, Sound Absorption, Acoustic Panels, Sound Masking, Reverberation Time, Engineering, Design Engineering, Architecture

Silence is Golden: Optimizing the Acoustic Environment

Posted by Alex Michaud on June 14, 2019 at 10:02 AM

Noise is the number one occupant complaint.

Research indicates that hospital patients and staff, hotel guests, and restaurant diners complain about noise more than anything else. Noise can impact occupants by lowering productivity and increasing stress levels. This “invisible” problem is loud and clear.

Properly addressing all noise sources allows building occupants to be more comfortable and productive.

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Topics: Acoustics, Sound Transmission Class, Noise Control, Noise Solution, Acoustic Louvers, Background Noise, Noise Criteria, Sound Absorption, Acoustic Panels, LEED credits, HVAC Silencers, Ceiling Attenuation Class, Air Transfer Silencers, Sound Masking, Speech Privacy, Reverberation Time, Duct Noise Reduction, LEED for Schools, LEED for Healthcare

Acoustical Enclosure in Downtown Calgary

Bringing Design to Reality

Inside Price: Winnipeg Headquarters

Renovated, Expanded Space Creates a Living Showroom

What Is an Acoustic Panel?

Controlling Unwanted Noise from the Source to the Receiver

Silence is Golden: Optimizing the Acoustic Environment

At Price, when we say “the sky is the limit,” we actually mean it.

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