Acoustics in Aquatics

Sound reflects off water and because water is much denser than air, it acts as an acoustic boundary. When airborne sound waves hit a water surface, a large portion of the sound's energy reflects back into the air. This reflection is what creates clear echoes across lakes and rivers. 

Aquatic Centres typically have acoustically noisy environments, with various hard finishes such as tiling and concrete, providing opportunities for reverberated sound to bounce from one surface to another. The noises from swimming, talking, and children playing can result in an overall extremely noisy environment. 

Noise levels in swimming pool areas should be controlled to allow speech comprehension, short reverberation times with minimal echo are crucial for speech intelligibility.

It is important for Swimming pools to provide an acoustic environment to enable people to enjoy their leisure, or clearly hear instructions from swimming teachers, or clearly hear important safety announcements from pool staff and or life guards.

Absorptive materials will improve the speech intelligibility and allow more effective communication in such noisy environments.

To address Aquatic Centre noise Quiet Art offer Quietfoam W an acoustic solution that is waterproof, humidity proof, bacteria proof, chlorine and cleaning chemical resistant. It is extremely lightweight and perfect for Aquatic Centre environments.

Pictured are Projects using our QuietfoamW Waterproof product in Aquatic Centres.