Editing Soundproofing (section)

===Commercial===
Restaurants, schools, office businesses, and healthcare facilities use architectural acoustics to reduce noise for their customers. In the United States, [[OSHA]] has requirements regulating the length of exposure of workers to certain levels of noise.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/nyregion/us-standards-on-workplace-noise-trail-those-of-other-countries.html?_r=1|title=U.S. Standards on Workplace Noise Trail Those of Other Countries|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=20 July 2012|last1=Buckley|first1=Cara}}</ref>

For educators and students, improving the sound quality of an environment will subsequently improve student learning, concentration, and teacher-student inter-communications. In 2014, a research study conducted by Applied Science revealed 86% of students perceived their instructors more intelligibly, while 66% of students reported experiencing higher concentration levels after sound-absorbing materials were incorporated into the classroom.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2014-12-08|title=Boosting Students' Learning With Soundproofing|language=en-US|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://online.wsj.com/articles/boosting-students-learning-with-soundproofing-1418061926|access-date=2021-05-20|issn=0099-9660}}</ref>