[CAUT] Flooring for concert hall - Thanks!

[Jim Busby]

Thanks to all of you who responded! The information was very useful to our facilities man.

It's nice to have this forum, where so many different people with varied talents and experience are so willing to offer help. I hope that any posts I make might be of benefit to you as well. That's what it's all about. Thanks!

Sincerely,
Jim Busby BYU


From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Richard Murphy
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 8:22 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Flooring for concert hall

Hi Jim,
    Try Scott R. Riedel & Associates, Ltd. At www.riedelassociates.com.  He is an organist in the
Milwaukee area and has done organ and acoustics consulting for decades.  I know of him when I worked with Martin Ott Pipe Organ Company.  He was the consultant on several organs.
Richard


On 2/12/09 3:18 PM, "Jim Busby" <jim_busby at byu.edu> wrote:
All,

Our large concert hall (1200 seats) is going to get a new floor. They asked today if we knew of the acoustical considerations of the flooring. Choices seem to be Maple flooring or some type of material used on the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Any help here? (Seems like the architects/engineers would be all over this, but since we're a private institution sometimes things get done just to get them done...)

Also, the subflooring insulation is in question. What material to use, etc.

I heard that one major hall (One of the 3 Carnegie?) had a new material that was not conducive to good sound and had to be redone.

Can any of you direct me to resources on this? I wouldn't know where to begin, and I bet some of you have been there. Where do we go?

Thanks!!
Jim Busby BYU

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