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Picture an elegant, award-winning
country club formal dining room in south Florida
— an array of windows providing a breathtaking
view of three championship golf courses. Now picture
this dining room filled to capacity with 300 guests
for Sunday brunch or a special function —
conversing at high decibel levels to compensate
for sound reflection off windows and hardwood
floors, straining to hear each other over the
clatter of dishes.
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When remodeling 6,000
square feet of clubhouse dining areas and lobby,
The Fountains Country Club in Lake Worth, Fla.,
carefully considered these appearance and acoustic
issues. The solution: CONTOUR Ceiling Tiles.
"The Fountains Country Club is a private, 900-member
golf and tennis club within a gated community, so
we definitely needed a ceiling product that had
an elegant appearance," says Leslie Karen,
director of purchasing, The Fountains Country Club.
"Acoustic control — reducing noise levels
— was the other extremely important consideration.
We have an older member population and a dining
room full of windows. Excess noise is a potential
problem. We looked at various acoustical tiles and
fabric ceiling coverings, but none came close to
the distinctive elegance and noise reduction characteristics
of Sonex CONTOUR. This new ceiling dresses up our
award-winning formal dining room beautifully, and
our members are very complimentary about it."
Sonex CONTOUR Ceiling tiles are available in 14
different designs and 4 standard colors that can
be used alone or mixed and matched to create unique
patterns. The Fountains' formal dinning room, Grille
Room dining area and lobby included two different
patterns to create a design unique for the facility.
Sonex CONTOUR Ceiling Tiles have a backer board
for stability and are easy to install in drop-in
grid systems. Noise reduction coefficients (NRCs)
range from 0.95 to 1.20. Ideal for both new construction
and retrofitting — Sonex CONTOUR tiles are
appropriate for many environments, including ballrooms,
meeting facilities, conference and board rooms,
offices, entertainment facilities, call centers
and customer service departments, lobbies and entryways.
" Sonex CONTOUR offers a unique marriage
of form and function — designer appearance
and unparalleled acoustical control — both
of which are critical in high visibility, high-traffic
spaces," says Joerg Hutmacher, business unit
manager, illbruck Architectural Products.
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