The Shark Bay Recreation Centre is a busy community space. Its basketball gym had a serious echo problem that made it hard to use for anything except sport.
The problem
The gym had a reverberation time of around 7 seconds: every sound kept bouncing around the hard ceiling and walls. Holding a conversation or a meeting in there was close to impossible.
What we did
- Installed 95 full-size 50 mm Autex QuietSpace panels in nude/white across the ceiling and side walls of the basketball gym.
- Fitted 6 more 50 mm QuietSpace panels to the ceiling of the adjoining boardroom.
The result
The reverberation time came down to around 2 seconds. The centre was absolutely stoked: you can now hold a meeting in the gym.
Tip from Nigel: large halls with hard surfaces need absorption on the ceiling and the walls. Treating just one surface leaves the echo bouncing between the others.
