Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI (1888PressRelease)
October 02, 2009 - St. John's Lutheran School in Corcoran, Minn., is a little less noisy since the school installed acoustical products from pinta acoustic in its gymnasium and multipurpose fellowship hall, which doubles as a lunchroom for the 200 students in the prekindergarten to eighth-grade school.
The gymnasium is part of an addition completed in 2008. The multipurpose fellowship hall was built in 1984.
St. John's installed SONEX® Valueline natural grey 48-inch by 96-inch panels on walls in the gymnasium. The school also installed 24-inch by 24-inch panels in natural grey and white in a checkerboard pattern on the ceiling of the fellowship hall.
"Our new gymnasium is quieter now," says Gary Volberding, principal, St. John's Lutheran School, which is accredited by the National Lutheran School Association. "It has a high ceiling, and we anticipated it would have acoustical problems. We built the addition as a shell, and finished areas as we received donations from our congregation and school."
"We also retrofitted our fellowship hall/school lunchroom with pinta's SONEX Valueline Panels. That area had a hard ceiling and walls and was always very noisy. The acoustical products have resulted in a significant improvement in sound quality, which makes assemblies, concerts and certainly lunchtime more enjoyable. The fellowship hall also allows for intelligible Bible classes and gatherings."
SONEX Valueline Panels provide excellent acoustical control across all frequencies, with a Noise Reduction Coefficient (NRC) ranging from 0.75 to 1.05. The panels are especially effective at absorbing excess sound at middle frequencies where communication can be obscured by reverberation. The panels feature a subtle surface pattern and are available in natural, painted and Hypalon®-coated options. Panels are available in a 24-inch x 48-inch size in 1-1/2-inch, 1-7/8-inch and 2-1/2-inch thicknesses, and in custom sizes. Panels are easily mounted to any ceiling or wall surface with pinta’s acouSTIC adhesive.
Installation of the panels at St. John’s Lutheran was completed by a handful of volunteers. "We allotted three days to install in the gym, and we got done in one day," says Dan Koehler, a member of St. John's Lutheran Building Committee. "We beveled the edges of the panels for the fellowship hall and completed that installation in an afternoon. It was easy because we used pinta’s adhesive and didn't require mechanical fastening."
Another important consideration for St. John's Lutheran, according to Koehler, was the fire resistance of SONEX Valueline Panels. They are made from willtec® foam, which is Class 1 fire rated for flame spread and smoke density. willtec natural also meets the corner burn test UL 1715, and all willtec finishes meet ASTM E 84.
For information about pinta acoustic products, visit www.pinta-acoustic.com/stjohns.
pinta acoustic, inc. manufactures a broad range of attractive ceiling tiles, wall panels and other acoustical materials for commercial and industrial applications, including CONTOUR® Ceiling and Wall Tiles, HARMONI Ceiling Tiles, WHITELINE® Ceiling Tiles, SQUARELINE® Metal Ceiling Tiles, BIOLINE® Wood Ceiling Tiles, PHONSTOP Ceiling and Wall Tiles, WHISPERWAVE Panels, Baffles, Ceiling Clouds and Awnings, FABRITEC Wall Panels, SONEX® Panels and Baffles, SONEX Clean Baffles, Panels and Ceiling Tiles, PROSPEC Decibel Drop Viscoelastic Damping Compound, PROSPEC® Barrier, Foam and Composite Materials and Ceiling Grid products.
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