Acoustics

The overriding question is whether unwanted sounds will be transmitted throughout an office environment due to the presence of a raised floor system. Laboratory and field tests conducted by Tate and many other organizations show that when using typical interior construction of either drywall partitions or demountable partitions with conventional suspended lay-in ceilings, the use of a Tate raised floor will not result in a perceptible loss of sound isolation from office to office. A Tate raised floor provides far greater sound isolation than is possible with standard wall systems and/or ceiling systems. The acoustical “weak link” within standard interior constructions will always be the walls and ceilings, due to their penetrations and or lower sound transmission performances.