The Challenge:
A purpose-built office building for Big Tech in downtown Vancouver. The challenge was to meet the escalating standards of premier tenant and changing office-space culture. 402 Dunsmuir includes a fitness centre, which presents concerns of noise and vibration impact to adjacent levels from music and equipment use. There were also traffic noise concerns, with potential intrusions from the busy adjacent roads.
The Innovation:
Acoustic design to attract top talent – these buildings need high performance and flexibility for acoustics. This meant we designed to meet higher performance targets and delivered base building conditions that could suit the top tier tenants and their amenities. The fitness centre required upgraded sound and impact isolation between floors. For traffic noise we collected noise monitoring data on site as the basis of recommended sound isolation for the building façade glazing.
