Keep



acoustics



simple.

If you're looking for help with your next acoustics, noise, vibration, or audio solution,


you're in the right place.


With over a decade of experience solving and designing sound solutions across a huge range of scenarios projects.

We're ready to tailor our services exactly for you - no matter the size of your project.

Whether your team is:

  • an architect or engineer contracting design services professionals on a new project,
  • an owner or developer focused on soundproofing, making your property purpose-built for sound, or thoughtfully reducing construction costs,
  • seeking legal advice on an environmental noise regulation framework,

(or anyone else, for that matter!), let's get in touch.

Consulting Philosophy

When we say "keep acoustics simple", we don't mean that acoustics (the science) is simple. We mean that you shouldn't need a PhD to get the most out of your consultant. We all hear and/or feel sound and vibration, whether we are physicists or not. We want you to understand every outcome of our work, and all of what it means to you.


If you've worked with an acoustics consultant in the past, have you:

  • Been perplexed by a lengthy technical paper as the outcome of your consultant's work?
  • Feel like you're spending a ton of internal time incorporating acoustical recommendations with an unknown return on investment?
  • Spent your valuable time tracking down unresponsive points of contact?
  • Been faced with unpredictable consulting fees, change orders, and inconsistent deliverable schedules?

If not, you're one of the lucky ones, and we commend you for working with a a great team.


If we're describing you, than you know we're right when we say, with all the respect in the world...

this industry needs a change.


Our approach to consulting is immersive, holistic, and respectful of your design process. To us, that means:

  • Design options that correspond to your actual goals and constraints, and what they mean for your budget
  • Integrated teamwork - let's work the way that you want to work
  • Never designing for sound and vibration in a silo - acoustics is "rolled up" into all of the engineering disciplines
  • Transparent, fast, and straightforward contract process to get your project moving.


If any of this speaks to you, let's get in touch, and let's get interactive.

Acoustics Services

  • Acoustical design consulting
  • Noise and vibration testing and monitoring
  • Environmental noise permitting and modeling
  • Owner's representation
  • Laboratory equipment siting
  • Land use and air permitting
  • Soundproof design and construction
  • Mechanical noise and vibration control
  • Construction administration and commissioning
  • Expert testimony and legal support
  • Sustainability engineering
  • Value Engineering
  • LEED and WELL certification analysis

Markets and Applications

  • New construction and renovations
  • Life sciences and laboratories
  • Industrial and manufacturing facilities
  • Corporate and commercial workplaces
  • Generators, substations, and power distribution
  • Wind turbines and solar farms
  • Aviation and aircraft noise
  • Rail transit and highway development
  • Wedding venues, sound stages, and event halls
  • Fitness and weightlifting facilities
  • Construction monitoring programs

What we're about.

In music, the clef is the important symbol that defines the notes that follow. Literally, it is the key that takes a mess of dots and lines and turns it into a music on a page.


At Clefbuild, it's our passion to do just the same. Our reason for being is to give you a key to the "noise" of competing advice, advertisements, and complex regulations (to name just a few), empowering you to build something great.

Clefbuild is located in Somerville, Massachusetts, and is proud to offer professional services consulting services in the New England region and beyond. We work with property owners, architects, engineers, legal professionals, and real estate developers across the country and internationally.


Our acoustical consulting services are Board Certified by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (less than 100 certified individual consultants in the United States), Professional Engineering (PE) licensure, and is backed by over a decade of successful applied project experience.