Mei Wu Acoustics
The following are typical acoustical and vibration issues associated with auditorium projects:
- Sound isolation
- HVAC system noise control
- Airflow noise control
- Speech intelligibility prediction
- Reverberation time and reverberant decay prediction
- Audience area mapping
- Direct and reflected sound ray-tracing
- Echogram plotting
- Loudspeaker performance modeling
Projects > Auditoriums & Performance Spaces
The following are a few examples of recent projects.
Gilead Auditorium, Foster City, CA
A 250-seat round auditorium that was equipped for audio/video broadcast was constructed in Foster City near SFO International Airport. Because the auditorium had such an unusual shape, unique solutions were needed to project natural voice to the entire audience while maintaining high speech intelligibility for both the local and remote audience. The auditorium was also isolated from the SFO airport noise as well as the rooftop HVAC system noise and vibration.
USF Kalmanovitz Hall Media Center, San Francisco, CA
This project had an audio studio, media lab, video demonstration and video production rooms adjacent to each other and a student lobby. It required significant sound isolation, extremely low background noise levels, uniform-field interior spaces with controlled reflections and HVAC noise control. Mei Wu Acoustics was responsible for all the acoustical issues.
D. E. Shaw & Co. Boardroom, New York, NY
This 40-person boardroom with teleconferencing capability demands excellent room acoustics for speech intelligibility and sound isolation for speech privacy while maintaining the modern aesthetic of an international capital investment firm. Isolation from adjacent conference rooms and the reception area through all paths including the HVAC system was necessary for acoustical privacy. MWA was responsible for all the acoustic issues.
DigiDesign LC Control Room, Daly City, CA,
Hoover Institute recording studio at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Philo Television editing studio, San Francisco, CA
Bang & Olufsen showroom, San Jose, CA
Nvidia video conference room, San Jose, CA
Cisco Systems teleconference rooms, San Jose, CA
SJSU Success Center, San Jose, CA
Other Corporate Boardrooms and Video/Teleconferencing:
- DirecTV
- Panorama Capital
- Sun Microsystems
- Lockheed Martin
- Deltagen
- Kaiser
- Xilinx
- AMAT
- Genitope
- Genentech
- Seagate
- Polycom
- Abbott
- Apple Computing
- Yahoo!