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Get Serious About High Acoustic Performance in Green Buildings

In the past, good acoustical design meant using additional costly building materials. With QuietRock specified in LEED-based design, our customers ...

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Addressing Floor/Ceiling Noise Issues in Multifamily Construction

This paper discusses the known problems with current floor/ceiling assemblies and makes some recommendations of new materials to address these issues.

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Building Economical Multi- Family Units: Achieving Reliable STC 50 Without Using Double Stud Walls

Builders need to have a reliable, easy and low-cost method of building quiet living spaces without the limitations of traditional building material...

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Homasote 440 SoundBarrier versus QuietRock panels

This paper compares Homasote, a traditional soundproofing material, with QuietRock, a new generation of soundproofing materials.

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Making Walls Quiet for Less

This paper demonstrates how how to make walls quiet, avoid the liabilities of resilient channel, compare costs of alternative noise mitiating solutions, and discover how others have saved money and improved their results

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Mass Loaded Vinyl

One common option for trying to improve STC ratings of walls has been a heavy vinyl barrier installed in a stud wall cavity sold by many internet r...

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Resilient Channels: A Proven Liability

This paper demonstrates the liability and ineffectiveness of resilient channel.

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Understanding Sound and Noise

This white paper breaks analyzes what make up the characteristics of sound and noise, how it moves and how to control it.

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Sound Damping Home Theaters & Media Rooms

This white paper demonstrates how to achieve the right STC rating for your media room and how QuietRock creates a quiet media room.

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Building High-End Multi-Family Units: Achieving Reliable STC 65 in the Field

This paper demonstrates how new products such as QuietRock make building high quality condos a reality by making it easy for builders and their subcontractors to meet the new expectations reliably and cost effectively.

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