Cardiff and Vale College, Curran Road

Our Role

Brookbanks is providing specialist acoustic consultancy services to support the transformation of St William House on Curran Road, Cardiff, into a modern further education facility for Cardiff and Vale College.

Our role focuses on delivering acoustic and noise assessment expertise to ensure compliance with BB93 requirements across a diverse range of teaching, technical and creative learning environments. Working closely with the wider design team, we have developed sound insulation strategies, advised on specialist box-in-box constructions for music, film and dance spaces, coordinated with MEP designers to control internal noise levels, and designed reverberation treatments throughout the building.

The Outcome

Our acoustic strategy is helping create a high-quality learning environment within an existing office building, balancing the needs of focused study, creative activities and collaborative working. Through careful management of sound insulation, noise transfer and reverberation, the redevelopment will provide acoustically appropriate spaces for a wide variety of educational uses while overcoming the unique challenges associated with retrofitting specialist teaching environments into an existing multi-storey structure.