We Design for Sound Isolation and Audience Delight

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Built EnvironmentBuilt Environment

Industry

Multi-Use Event Center

Location

Canada

Valcoustics, a Trinity Consultants team, delivered advanced acoustical consulting to ensure sound isolation and audience comfort for the LEED Silver-certified Niagara Falls Convention Centre.

 

Challenge

The Niagara Falls Convention Centre spans 330,000 square feet and includes a 17,000-square-foot ballroom, an 82,000-square-foot exhibit hall, and a 986-seat theatre. A key acoustical challenge was ensuring effective sound isolation for the rooftop mechanical equipment, which was complicated by the use of a lightweight steel structural system. The client needed to maintain high acoustic standards to deliver quiet, adaptable spaces suitable for major corporate events and diverse performances.

 

Solutions

Valcoustics, a Trinity Consultants team, played a key role within the Design-Build team to ensure that all acoustical performance specifications were effectively achieved. Key objectives included managing background sound levels throughout the facility, providing sound isolation between various spaces, controlling environmental noise, and addressing reverberation, particularly within the theatre space.

A unique challenge arose in ensuring sufficient sound isolation for the rooftop mechanical equipment, particularly given the use of a lightweight steel structure. To overcome this, our solution involved increasing the local mass of the roof structure around the rooftop units, thereby enhancing the airborne sound isolation performance of the overall structure.

Services Performed

The team provided architectural acoustics consulting, designed sound isolation, controlled rooftop mechanical noise, managed theatre reverberation, and maintained background noise levels.

Results

The final venue achieved its acoustical goals and was certified LEED Silver, delivering an exceptional audience experience in a flexible environment suited to high-profile conventions, shows, and corporate functions. The acoustical design ensures clarity, privacy, and comfort throughout, reinforcing the convention centre’s reputation as a premier event destination in Niagara Falls.

82,000 ft²

Exhibit hall with optimised sound design

17,000 ft²

Ballroom with enhanced sound isolation

986-seat

Theatre acoustically tuned for audience delight