Abstract
The Michael and Margaret McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of St. Michael's College, Winooski, VT, was occupied and in use for the fall semester of 1975. Its 400-seat theater, 300-seat recital hall, faculty offices, studios, classrooms, individual and group rehearsal rooms serve the performing arts needs of this 1400 student campus. The building was long in the planning stages and several original proposals for the building were discarded primarily for budget reasons. The design and construction of the building in just under 12 calendar Pizzagalli Construction Company undertook the complete design and construction of the building in just under 12 calendar months. This paper reviews the acoustical design considerations and the solutions to the myriad room acoustics, sound isolation, and building noise control problems inherent in a building of this type. Measurements of background ambient noise levels, room-to-room noise reduction, and reverberation times in the completed spaces are given and compared with the design objectives and generally accepted criteria.
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