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Wondering how to soundproof a hotel room or apartment building? What about starting a rooftop garden on your restaurant or commercial property? These innovative measures can help improve your business’s offerings!

Let’s tackle soundproofing first. Sometimes apartment neighbors or hotel guests are louder than we wish them to be -whatever the reason, people don’t like being disrupted by the noises of others. Sound is a vibration or wave passing through a medium, and we need to determine whether we want to absorb (muffle) or reduce those waves. This is altering your soundscape. Absorbing sound uses some type of insulation. Reducing sound can require a diffuser. Sometimes a hiring a professional might be necessary for the best soundproofing possible.

Do you have a rooftop on your building that goes largely unused? Have you considered installing a rooftop garden? These spaces require special structural considerations, including: plant types, irrigation systems, soilless growing medium, drainage layer and rooftop waterproofing. But the benefits can include helping your community, the environment and your bottom line!

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Industry News & Tips, Restaurants

How To: Start a Rooftop Garden

Never forget that innovation is the key to success.

Whether you’re the owner of a restaurant or apartment building, or if you just want to be more environmentally conscientious, starting a rooftop garden provides tons of benefits for your business, your community, your building structure and the environment. Green roofs are increasingly becoming a popular concept for an overwhelmingly wide variety of reasons.

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Energy Savings & Money Savings

Soundproofing: Be the Architect of Your Soundscape

No matter what the cause, it goes without saying that people are happier when other people aren’t disrupting their world with noise pollution.

Let’s face it: there are a lot of musicians out there—but they aren’t the only ones making noise in apartment building and hotel rooms. Kids scream and stomp, teenagers do everything at full volume, gamers blast away at their war games, and grandma watches her stories. (Not to mention that couple that rented a room to “celebrate their love.”)—the list goes on and on.

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