ADI / AREAS
San Francisco Acoustic Consultant
ADI / AREAS is available for San Francisco and Bay Area projects that need senior acoustic, noise, vibration, micro-vibration, mechanical noise, speech privacy, commissioning, or post-occupancy diagnostic support.
Best-fit San Francisco work
- AI, technology, biotech, lab, and R&D workplaces that need quiet rooms, focus rooms, meeting rooms, and technical infrastructure coordination
- Life sciences, microscopy, imaging, cleanroom, and technical facilities with micro-vibration risk
- Dense mixed-use, residential-over-retail, hospitality, theater, fitness, and amenity projects with noise and vibration risk
- Owner-side PM and facilities teams who need quick senior help on complaints, commissioning, or construction-phase decisions
Relevant background
- 20+ years in real estate design and construction across North America and Europe.
- Owner-side portfolio work for offices, labs, hospitals, and mixed-use projects.
- Amazon WWDE, Penn Medicine, INSEAD, Essex Crossing, healthcare imaging, labs, and global workplace standards.
- Fluent English and French with availability for San Francisco, Philadelphia, Paris-area, national, and international projects.
Project Q&A
Can ADI / AREAS help with Bay Area lab, AI, biotech, or R&D projects?
Yes. The relevant experience includes life sciences labs, biomedical research, microscopy and imaging rooms, cleanrooms, subfab support infrastructure, data centers, Amazon Worldwide Design & Engineering facility criteria, and technical workplace standards.
What healthcare and clinical experience is relevant to acoustic or vibration risk?
Project experience includes Penn Medicine's Pavilion, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, proton therapy, MRI, PET-CT, SEM suites, helipad and emergency generator assessments, hospital infrastructure, clinical upgrades, and FGI Guidelines risk review.
Can the firm support dense mixed-use, residential, hospitality, or amenity projects?
Yes. The project background includes Essex Crossing in New York City, One Riverside in Philadelphia, residential-over-retail, cinema and retail adjacencies, hotels, clubs, restaurants, fitness spaces, pool amenity spaces, and urban phased construction.
When should an architect or PM bring ADI / AREAS into a project?
Bring Stephen San Soucie in when the project has sensitive rooms, noisy equipment, speech privacy needs, stacked adjacencies, mechanical noise risk, permitting exposure, vibration-sensitive equipment, AV/VC expectations, or a post-occupancy complaint pattern.
Can ADI / AREAS help after a building is already occupied?
Yes. Post-occupancy work can include complaint intake, site measurement, root-cause analysis, mechanical noise review, speech leakage diagnosis, footfall or fitness vibration review, remediation options, and follow-up verification.
What kinds of spaces has Stephen worked on?
The site experience spans healthcare campuses, life sciences and research labs, higher education classrooms and lecture halls, workplace and headquarters projects, multifamily and mixed-use buildings, hospitality, civic and performance rooms, technical facilities, and international corporate portfolios.
ADI / AREAS supports Bay Area teams without pretending to be a storefront practice: the offer is senior project support for organizations that need acoustic and technical construction judgment.