Facility Managers
As a professional facility manager, you’ve always needed dependable resources to make your facility the best it can be. Today, your focus is on finding new ways to apply your skills. But you can only do so much to reduce costs. You must look at other ways to add value by improving the performance of your facility and creating optimal environments that foster privacy, comfort, communication and safety.
Sound masking is proven to add value, because it addresses several of the biggest issues in workplace design: Noise, privacy and comfort . In addition, in certain industries such as healthcare and finance, sound masking can also help you address federal mandates for privacy such as those under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). Your Lencore professional can provide you with details about meeting these requirements.
When designing for LEED (Leadership in Energy Efficiency and Design) incorporating sound masking becomes key to helping occupants be satisfied with the new, green designs since many of the sustainable practices and elements contribute to an increase in acoustic and noise complaints.
If your facility already incorporates acoustical panels or ceiling tiles, you may think you have acoustics covered. But those remedies only go so far in controlling sound. To create true speech privacy and a comfortable work environment, sound that hasn’t been completely blocked or absorbed must be ‘covered’ with masking.
You’ll probably be surprised at the difference sound masking can make. It’s a difference that has to be heard. Fortunately, the facts that back up the benefits of masking are widely available:
- Productivity increases of 3% to 51% with the introduction of sound masking
- Employee satisfaction and retention
- Financial return on investment