Understanding and assessing the acoustic comfort of your business is the first step in knowing whether customers feel relaxed and at ease when they visit your hotel or restaurant. Why is this so important? We will find out together in this article.
Today, more than ever, it is important for the hospitality sector to rethink its own spaces and offer added value that can be combined with catering and service, to provide areas where customers can be received in a cozy, welcoming, embracing environment.
Vi siete mai chiesti, ad esempio, quali siano i fattori che determinano il gradimento della vostra proposta? Immaginiamo che sia una domanda ricorrente, che molti imprenditori della ristorazione si pongono; le risposte sono generalmente riconducibili a pochi concetti fondamentali ed ampiamente ricorrenti. Tra questi, oltre alla qualità del cibo, uno dei fattori emergenti è la location.
Sempre più i clienti valutano l’esperienza che vivono all’interno della vostra attività ricordando la sensazione di benessere e relax che hanno provato, quindi sempre più un percorso complesso vissuto e condiviso collettivamente. La memoria uditiva è quella che permette di ricordare a livello sensoriale sensazioni legate ad un luogo specifico, se il ricordo del vostro ristorante attiverà una memoria uditiva che riporta al caos, confusione e un carico eccessivo di rumori questo potrebbe condizionare il ritorno del cliente, quindi Il livello di rumorosità è importante.
Today, guaranteeing optimal acoustic comfort is essential.
Thus, a well-designed outdoor space is extremely valuable in that it increases the number of spaces available for the restaurateur to seat guests, but even more importantly allows him to offer a satisfying experience that helps to please and retain customers.
As such, if you are planning to expand or redesign your space, one of the things that deserves serious consideration is finding solutions that provide acoustic comfort and privacy for your customers.
Acoustic comfort and reverberation time
Acoustic comfort is the ability of an environment to provide a suitable experience in the room for both diners and the staff working there, allowing guests to avoid being disturbed by others’ chatter and enabling the staff to remain attentive and not fatigued, even after long hours of work.
Excessive sound levels caused by reverberation can create a situation of continuous pressure. Our brains are constantly stimulated by trying to distinguish the voice the person we are conversing with the from background noise and other voices present in the room. This distraction by unwanted sounds is tiring, making conversation difficult and staff less productive.
It is therefore important to take the necessary precautions to ensure acoustic comfort in your restaurant and, above all, to rearrange the environment so that everyone feels comfortable. It is therefore very important that the arrangement you settle on has a low “reverberation time“; that is, the time it takes for a sound generated in the room to become inaudible should be as short as possible.
What does the reverberation time depend on? Several aspects; notably, the size of the room, and the capacity of the surfaces and elements therein (walls, ceiling, curtains, furniture, etc.) to reflect or absorb sound waves. The acoustic panels in mineral wool is a good solution to reduce reverberation time, like that used in Eclettica, Giulio Barbieri’s bioclimatic pergola.
Eclettica, our solution to eliminate acoustic reverberation
Taking into account the needs of the hospitality sector, at Giulio Barbieri we have designed Eclettica, a bioclimatic pergola whose roof is made of sound-absorbing, rock-mineral wool panels, which considerably reduce acoustic reverberation, absorb sound waves, and create an acoustically secure environment.
More precisely, Eclettica is composed of:
• Canvas: made of a class-1 fire-resistant membrane and PVC-coated polyester. The manufacturer is Ferrari, a leading company in the production of fabrics used for the construction of flexible structures that are perfect for building functional garden furniture.
• Absorbent mass: composed of rock-mineral wool sandwich panels and polyurethane foam, the surface of the roof is 100% paneled, ensuring invisibility and guaranteeing a minimalist design with attention to the smallest detail..
We remind you that the protection of living spaces from external noise or nearby environments is becoming increasingly important, both because of rising demands for certification at the regulatory level (DPCM 5/12/97), as evidenced by current law (Law 447/1995), and also because of the public’s increasing sensitivity to the problem of noise pollution.
Avere una zona esterna che sia accogliente e confortevole in ogni momento dell’anno è importante per aumentare l’affluenza di clienti e la reputazione del proprio locale. La nostra pergola bioclimatica Eclettica è oggi disponibile in oltre 300 punti vendita selezionati: venite a scoprirla, i nostri specialisti del vivere bene sono a disposizione per un sopralluogo gratuito e un preventivo modulato sulle vostre esigenze.
