Hear, hear!

In a world that’s growing ever more cacophonous, noise is undoubtedly the most severe stress factor that we’re exposed to. Psychoacoustics and room-acoustics engineers agree: noise has a major impact on our sense of well-being and our performance levels, both at home and at work. Conversations, phone calls and devices stress us out more than we might think, and rooms where sounds reverberate only intensify the negative effects of these factors. The construction materials used in a given building can either amplify or attenuate the noise that the structure’s users are exposed to.

The prevalence in today’s workplaces of open plan offices requires well planned acoustic space optimization in all types of buildings and spaces, whether they be offices, hotels or stores. Carpeted quiet areas and conference rooms relieve stress on our hearing.

For the past three years, OBJECT CARPET has been working with the acoustic specialists YDOL to achieve comprehensive room-acoustics planning that factors walls and ceilings into efforts to dampen noise. With its broad range of acoustic design elements and expert services, YDOL, an innovative startup, and the carpet specialist OBJECT CARPET, are making a significant contribution to targeted optimization of room acoustics.

In the interest of enhancing the noise attenuation capabilities of carpet still further, OBJECT CARPET has developed a special carpet-underside coating known as BlackThermo®Felt Acoustic Plus. With its most recently launched products such as Gracce and Madra, OBJECT CARPET has outdone itself when it comes to achieving exceptionally high levels of noise absorption and footstep-noise attenuation; and it has achieved this with both broadloom carpet and acoustic plus SL Tiles. With its new self-laying tiles, OBJECT CARPET is setting new economic and ecological standards.