Hard ceilings in the veterinary clinic: Just don't
'You'll be going down a horrible acoustic road,' veterinary architect says.
HospitalDesign360 conference speaker Dan Chapel, AIA, NCARB, has seen a trend lately in veterinary architecture, and he doesn't like it. We're talking about the returning tendency to use hard ceilings-gypsum board or dry wall material. These have one major drawback:
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"They are not sound absorptive at all, in fact just the opposite-they reflect sound," he says.
They can even amplify the sound in certain cases, Chapel says. So, at a time when we're very conscious of all sensory input on pets' experience in the exam room, his advice is to use these surfaces very conservatively.
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