Acoustic comfort: the missing pillar of Australian design

We obsess over thermal comfort but largely ignore acoustic comfort. Urban densification means every new apartment, every new inner-city home, faces measurable noise pollution from traffic, trams, aircraft, and neighbours.

Acoustic glazing with laminated PVB interlayers can reduce noise by 45dB — effectively the difference between a busy street and a library. This is a physical intervention with measurable mental-health benefits.