A Mass Timber Acoustic Field Research Initiative
The Timber Sounds Project is an industry/academia partnership leveraging the high concentration of mass-timber buildings in the Pacific Northwest as well as our respective experiences in industry and research for scientific collection of acoustic building performance data with the goal of increasing the adoption of mass timber construction across all building types.
Relative to other more established building types, there is a lack of acoustic field data available for mass timber buildings and a resultant lack of clarity and even confidence by the development, design, and construction communities at large regarding sound isolation and reflected sound behavior in these buildings.
QUESTIONS:
Are we characterizing the in-situ acoustic performance of Mass Timber in structures correctly?
Are there misconceptions?
If so, what are they?
GOALS:
To collect enough wall and ceiling field acoustic isolation performance and reflected sound data to achieve statistical significance, via various typical and experimental methods.
To perform statistical analysis to discover performance trends.
To inform the design community to expand mass timber adoption and innovation.
The Timber Sounds Project is a collaboration between the following:
ACOUSTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY
