For architects

Know before the spec is locked, not after the client complains.

Acoustics is usually the thing that gets discovered post-occupancy — after the hard floor, glazed partitions and bare ceiling are already built, when changing them means a second fit-out instead of a line in the original spec. Echo moves that discovery earlier, to whichever stage you're actually making the decision.

Check a room →

Acoustic answers while the design can still change.

Check a room at concept or detailed design.

Before the spec is locked.

Catch the problem when it is cheap.

From plan to answer.

Upload the drawing; Echo does the reading.

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At concept

Model the room from the brief's dimensions before a single finish is chosen, so acoustics is one of the inputs to the material palette rather than a constraint discovered afterwards.

At detailed design

Import the actual room geometry from a DXF plan, or a PDF or photo of one — Echo reads the outline automatically and proposes it for you to check, any room shape, not just a rectangle. Then check the specified finishes against the standard the room type needs to meet, and see exactly which surface — and how much of it — closes the gap if it doesn't.

At client sign-off

Hand over a branded report with the figures and the standard they're checked against, so "we considered acoustics" is something you can evidence, not just assert.

See it happen

The same building, checked before it is built

Scroll through an illustration of one building built the usual way, then rewound and checked at concept, detailed design and specification.

Scroll through the building

1
Three floors, six rooms, all still lines. Ceiling height, finish and glazing are open, and nobody has asked how the rooms will sound.
2
The hard ceilings, the glazed partitions and the bare soffits go in. Once people move in, amber shows speech coming back off the surfaces and leaking next door and upstairs.
3
Same building, back to line work. This time the questions get asked while a change is still just a line.
4
Echo checks every room at each stage: ceiling height at concept, finish at detailed design, glazing at specification. Rooms light up as they are checked and the model predicts the amber calming.
5
The same building goes up with the decisions already made. Speech still carries in teal, and what is left of the amber is small. Take the controls to undo any decision.

Take the controls

Switch each early decision on or off for the whole building and watch the amber change. Predictions, not measurements.

Illustration

Direct soundEcho or leakRooms predicted settled: 0 of 6

Ceiling height· ConceptFinish· Detailed designGlazing· Specification

Where this fits against a full acoustic consultant

It doesn't replace one, and for anything contentious, contractual, or where a signed-off figure is genuinely required, you still need to appoint one. What Echo replaces is the uncertainty before that appointment — the rooms where the honest answer is "this is fine, don't spend the fee", found in about a minute instead of a fortnight, and the rooms where the answer is "this genuinely needs a specialist", found early enough that a consultant is a planned cost rather than a late one.

See the standard behind every figure, and the standards Echo supports →