Fire and Sound Working Together: How can these twins coexist?
Fire assembly vs. Sound assembly
Sponsored by PABCO® Gypsum
Fire assembly best choices are often at odds with Sound assembly methods. Unfortunately, this often leads the design professional to choose one over the other. How can you really choose your favorite child Usually, it’s the Fire Design that wins out, because after all that is a life safety issue while Sound, is left to be whatever it is. This course will show you that you often have more choices than you think. Good Sound Control can and should promote safety and contribute to the overall fire design. You just need to understand some of the details to think a little bit differently on how to approach both.
Family owned and operated, PABCO® Gypsum has been providing high quality gypsum wallboard products and superior customer service throughout North America for more than 45 years. The company produces a broad range of gypsum drywall products for residential and commercial applications including, mold, fire, sound and impact-resistant boards. This includes QuietRock®, the first and most technically advanced sound reducing drywall panel in the industry. PABCO Gypsum, along with PABCO Paper and Roofing Products are divisions of PABCO® Building Products LLC that services the building industry in the United States and Canada.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Gain an understanding of the attributes of a design that are good for Fire Resistance, but detrimental to Noise Control.
- Learn how fire resistance ratings are written, achieved, and monitored.
- Discover the How, Who and What of Acoustic Testing.
- Understand how decisions on a fire assembly detail can affect sound results and how to find a way to achieve both goals.
