Noble Park Community Centre

Acoustic Issues in a Busy Community Hub

The Noble Park Community Centre serves as a multi‑functional hall for basketball and a lively hub for social gatherings across Greater Dandenong’s diverse communities. Naturally, events brim with conversation and energy. However, the hall’s nearly 400 m² footprint—featuring polished floorboards, brick walls, and plasterboard ceilings—caused sound to bounce and linger. Consequently, reverberation built up, and speech intelligibility suffered. As a result, users struggled to hear clearly during games, meetings, and celebrations.

Fast Installation and Measurable Results

The installation moved swiftly. In one day, the team direct‑fixed 35 Megasorber FM50 panels to the ceiling using Megasorber A200 adhesive. The panels blended seamlessly with the existing finish and, in turn, lifted the hall’s aesthetics—users even remarked the space looked like it had received a facelift.

Before and after measurements confirmed the impact. The Reverberation Time (RT) dropped by more than 50%, eliminating the echoey quality and restoring speech clarity. Consequently, the Noble Park Community Centre now feels welcoming and comfortable for social functions and sporting activities, delivering the acoustic control the community needed.

Products

Megasorber FM50W-RW

50mm lightweight, inherently fire-resistant acoustic panel with non-combustible, water-repellent, white sound absorbing Soundmesh® G8 facing.

Megasorber A200

High tack and temperature resistant adhesive using the latest polymer-alloy technology. Available in sausages and cartridges.

Features

Installation

Thirty-five Megasorber FM50 acoustic panels were cut to size and directly fixed with Megasorber A200 adhesive onto the ceiling with an express finish.
The installation was completed in 2023.

Results

Measurements

Acoustic measurements were performed at three different locations in the hall: the front, the centre, and the back. At each location, five measurements were taken with an NTI XL2 analyzer. These results were averaged over the three measurement locations.

The graph shows the RT measurement results before and after the installation of Megasorber FM50W-RW sound absorbing panels.

Before acoustic treatment, the hall sounded very echoey and reverberant. The measured Reverberation Time (RT) was well above three seconds at frequencies 500Hz, 1,000Hz and 2,000Hz.

After acoustic treatment, there was a reduction of more than 50% in the measured RT; the hall is much less reverberant (not so echoey). The RT is now 1.35 seconds at 500Hz, 1.6 seconds at 1,000Hz and 1.61 seconds at 2,000Hz.

With minimum coverage, Megasorber FM50 reduced the RT time by more than 50%. Megasorber FM50 effectively absorbs noise. This hall is now by far a more pleasant place for social get-togethers and sporting activities without such an annoying echo.

Results installation of Megasorber absorber acoustic panels in Noble Park Community Centre

Testimonial

Damien McGrane, involved with the Product Management Support at the Greater Dandenong City Council, provided the below testimonial on the completion of the installation. We thank Damien for the positive feedback.

Noble Park Community Centre staff received very positive reviews from many people visiting the centre. The staff were also very happy with the acoustic improvement and clarity in speech after the Megasorber FM sound absorbing panels were installed.