Privacy Is Not Dead: How Specialty Doors Help Create Private Conversation Spaces
Learning Objectives:
- List the key laws that govern privacy and what impact they have on facility design.
- Discuss research findings showing why quiet spaces are essential to occupant well-being in hospitals, schools, and offices.
- Articulate the amount of sound attenuation needed to ensure private conversations.
- Describe door options that ensure acoustic privacy while meeting your design vision.
Credits:
This course is approved as a Structured Course
This course can be self-reported to the AANB, as per their CE Guidelines
Approved for structured learning
Approved for Core Learning
This course can be self-reported to the NLAA
Course may qualify for Learning Hours with NWTAA
Course eligible for OAA Learning Hours
This course is approved as a core course
This course can be self-reported for Learning Units to the Architectural Institute of British Columbia
While some pundits and tech leaders claim the internet has destroyed privacy, the need for private conversations is greater than ever in public and commercial buildings ranging from healthcare to schools and offices. In this session, you’ll learn ways to design for acoustic privacy for health-care provider/patient conversations in medical offices, supervisor/employee conversations in offices, and private offices, conference rooms, and collaboration spaces in schools and other facilities.
Photo courtesy of WRA Architects Dallas
Tysen Gannon, LEED AP, is director of business development for AD Systems. She has more than 15 years of experience in the architectural products industry, including roles in sales, product management, research, and marketing with a focus on glass and glazing, fenestration, and facade systems. |