Sound Off

Shhh ... do you hear that? No? Good, because that means soundproofing companies, and the employees wielding the technology, are doing their job — and doing it well.

The region happens to have an abundance of such companies. One, Tampa-based Acoustiblok, has about 50 employees and dates back to the late 1990s, while one of the newer ones on the scene is Commercial Acoustics. Walker Peek, a former structural engineer at Kennedy Space Center, founded Commercial Acoustics in 2016.

At first, Commercial Acoustics mainly sold sound-muffling curtains for apartment and condo dwellers. It still does, but it has since added an e-commerce division — Soundproof Direct — that sells to project managers and engineers who need large quantities of soundproofing materials for construction projects.