Experiences

Revolutionary

After having used other software for EN 12354 calculations for many years, it has been a revelation to change to SONarchitect. The possibility of being able to calculate whole buildings with the correct room geometries and junctions selections, all in one working process has reduced calculation uncertainty, made optimisation of building constructions more effective, and given added value for our clients.

On-board extra modules giving the possibility of calculating single and multi-layer constructions as data input to the EN 12354 calculations is a welcome addition, and as it is integrated in the same program, the transition of data between modules is quick and easy.

We have used SONArchitect ISO on a variety of projects including housing, hotels, teaching facilities, offices and industrial buildings and the possibility of making specific requirements for each project type is perfect.

Although a great program - as it does a great deal more and better than other software for EN 12354 calculations - our feedback concerning possible new features has always been appreciated and taken seriously. The staff at SoundOfNumbers have been extremely helpful, quick and highly professional responding to questions and suggestions for further developments.

Richard Ballinger

Ballinger Acoustics (former Chief Specialist at COWI)

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Room specs

You can identify at any time the enclosures of any floor, and tell SONarchitect the use of each room in the building. This determines the aplicable legislation limits to verify the building compliance. Room identification and use can be changed at any time, before or after the computation, without any additional hassle.

Acoustic quality

Interactive detailed performance histograms are provided for every type of room pairing in the building, allowing fast access to and inspection of the sets of average, less than average, better than average, worst and best cases in the building, or the set of rooms in the building with a given level of insulation. You also get feedback on the compliance level of the rooms with respect to configurable sets of limits for the different encounter types, allowing you to check your designs against any Building Code based on the ISO EN 12354.

Acoustical quality classification of the entire building straightforwardly follows.

 

Outdoor noise map

SONarchitect ISO computes the noise emission maps from any noisy room in your building, according to EN 12354-4 Annex E

Specify a custom indoor noise spectrum and get the L2n in the adjacent rooms and from the façade.

3D model

A 3D model of your building is created, where you can verify the geometry of your building, and also virtualize some of the slabs to get complex volumic geometries.

The 3D model can be inspected at any moment during the drawing of the floor plans to asses the progress of the project. Floors having the same plan and building solutions are specified just by a repetition number that creates repeated floors in the 3D model.

Specify the geometry

Just sketch the plan of every different floor in the building, optionally using a template from a DXF file.

You do not have to tell SONarchitect which are rooms and how, it will automatically detect every room as you draw. Every line becomes a wall, every cross a junction, and every closed shape a new room.

Aid tools allow you to draw normals, specific angles and lengths, ortho lines, and the sticky cursor will help you with clean shapes and correct junctions, also between different floors.

Webinar A Casa do Son

Following with our free webinar campaign, we are glad to invite you to the webinar A Casa do Son (The house of sound).

In this brief webmeeting the engineer Pablo Gómez and Javier Sanz will explain us all their procedures, decissions, and tools, they have applied for designing a multi-purpose musical complex building for the city of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, SPAIN), in cooperation with the acoustic engineering company Sonen.

This will be a practical case in the use of SONarchitect in a real building.

The main topics of the webinar are:

1. PROJECT MOTIVATION

2. OBJECTIVE, BACKGROUND AND LIMITATIONS

3. BUILDING LOCATION

4. A CASA DON SON (THE HOUSE OF SOUND)

4.1. GENERAL DESIGN

4.2. CONSTRUCTIVE SOLUTION FOR EXTERNAL SOUND ISOLATION

4.3. GROUND FLOOR

4.3.1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

4.3.2. FLOOR ISOLATION

4.3.3. CONCERT HALL

4.3.3.1. FEATURES AND INDICATORS

4.3.3.2. INTERNAL ISOLATION

4.3.3.3. ACOUSTIC CONDITIONING

4.4. FIRST FLOOR

4.4.1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

4.4.2. REHEARSAL ROOMS

4.4.2.1. ROOM MODELING

4.4.2.2. INTERNAL INSULATION

4.4.2.3. ACOUSTIC CONDITIONING

4.4.2.4. RECORDING STUDIO

4.4.2.4.1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

4.4.2.4.2. CONTROL ROOM

4.4.2.4.2.1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

4.4.2.4.2.2. INTERNAL INSULATION

4.4.2.4.2.3. ACOUSTIC CONDITIONING

4.4.2.4.3. RECORDING ROOM

4.4.2.4.3.1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

4.4.2.4.3.2. MAIN RECORDING ROOM

4.4.2.4.3.2.1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

4.4.2.4.3.2.2. INTERNAL INSULATION

4.4.2.4.3.2.3. ACOUSTIC CONDITIONING

4.4.2.4.3.3. SECONDARY RECORDING ROOMS

4.4.2.4.3.3.1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

4.4.2.4.3.3.2. INTERNAL ISOLATION

4.4.2.4.3.3.3. ACOUSTIC CONDITIONING OF VOICE BOOTH

4.4.2.4.3.3.4. ACOUSTIC CONDITIONING OF DRUM BOOTH

5. ESTIMATED BUDGET

6. CONCLUSIONS

We have scheduled a Spanish webinar and an English webinar. The first one will be held in Tuesday September 25th at 4:00 PM (GMT +1), and the English one will be in Wednesday September 26th at 4:00 PM (GMT+1)

You can check dates and register in our AnyMeeting platform.

 

 
 
 
 

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