Simplest Way to WELL: Sound

Now, onto Sound. And all you have to do is have a plan. A plan in two parts, but still, a plan.

The first part is a floor plan. In that floor plan you need to label the following:

1. Loud zones: areas intended for loud equipment or activities
2. Quiet zones: areas intended for concentration, wellness, rest, study and/or privacy
3. Mixed zones: areas intended for learning, collaboration and/or presentation
4. Circulation zones: areas not intended for regular occupancy

The second part of the plan needs to include a plan for mitigating sound bleeding between Loud zones and Quiet zones. You also need to cover how you intend to manage “acoustical comfort, background noise, speech privacy, reverberation time and/or impact noise”

And that’s it. You’ve met the basic WELL standard for Sound.

No, I’m not kidding.

Seriously.

Look, I didn’t even add any pictures to this one because it’s too short and now I’m just rambling to fill space.