Engineering Week 2025

Q&A with a Consultant This week we’re proud to celebrate National Engineers Week. The 2025 theme, “Design Your Future”, highlights the impact and limitless possibilities of a career in engineering. We spoke with Andrew, a senior audio-video...

Silent Night – The Acoustics of Snow

Have you noticed how much more peaceful it seems when it snows? It is not just a seasonal ambiance. Would it surprise you to know that the science of acoustics is at play? Our everyday surroundings contain a variety of surfaces; some reflect, some diffuse,...

Avant Acoustics Anniversary

Please join us for the Avant Acoustics Anniversary Reception, Celebrating 60 Years of Sound Design Thursday, October 24th, 4-7 PM. Gold Dome Event Center Cathedral of Immaculate Conception 12th and Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64105 RSVP by October...

July 10, 2024  For Immediate Release:  AVANT ACOUSTICS ADDS TO DESIGN TEAM. AVANT ACOUSTICS welcomes Senior Associate, Jeffrey Keirsey to the design staff.   Keirsey comes to AVANT from a LORT (League of Resident Theaters) theater where he developed...

Incirlik Airfield Fire/Crash Rescue Station

The primary purpose for constructing the facility was to further enhance the installation's readiness and modernization to respond to future challenges and emergencies. Construction of the building started in August 2018 and the coordination between...

NCAC Newsletter Article – SPRING 2024

The following article appeared in the Spring 2024 NCAC Newsletter.

AVANT Acoustics Announces Passing of Beloved Founder, Bob Coffeen It is with great sadness to share the recent news of the death of Robert (Bob) Coffeen, our founder, owner, and President from 1964 until his retirement. “Although I didn’t get...

ACOUSTICAL CONSULTING It’s what we do! Acoustical consulting, in some circles referred to as acoustical engineering, is the management of sound. Often, this is about mitigating unwanted reflections and increasing desirable ones (room acoustics)....

ACOUSTICAL CONSULTING: THE JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY AT LENEXA CITY CENTER

AVANT ACOUSTICS designed the Audio-Visual systems and Acoustical aspects of the Library located in Lenexa City Center. Because the library was part of the overall development of the relocation of downtown Lenexa, it is the center focus which is connected...

Acoustical Consulting: Cathedral of Saint Joseph by AVANT ACOUSTICS

The AVANT ACOUSTICS team is proud to have worked on the 2023 Renovation Project at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Jefferson City, MO. The Cathedral serves as the main or “mother” church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jefferson City. AVANT’s...