Our role in the project
We have worked on a number of Premier Inn hotel design and builds, providing a range of acoustic services.
Every Premier Inn project has its own particular acoustic challenges depending on the location and, therefore, the existing ambient noise climate.
Specific considerations
- Stringent client acoustic standards
- Aircraft, rail and road traffic noise and vibration
- Noise from mechanical ventilation
Acoustic features of this project
Some of the acoustic challenges that we have addressed for Premier Inn hotels include:
- Aircraft noise;
- Existing external mechanical plant noise intrusion;
- High external traffic noise from busy trunk roads and/or motorways;
- Incorporating the required high performance glass* into a converted building;
- Noise and vibration transfer from underground train tunnels;
- Bedrooms that overlook streets with high levels of activity into the early hours of the morning;
- Bedrooms next to a nightclub and limited by an existing building façade that has to be retained.
*The high performance acoustic glazing specified by Premier Inn also requires inherently noisy mechanical ventilation. To overcome this, we:
- Test noise levels throughout the day and night;
- Use noise modelling techniques to calculate noise levels on different façades;
- Recommend where the amount of mechanical ventilation can be reduced.
