The Hard Truth About Minimal Design

In recent years with the abandonment of carpets, drapes and anything soft in favour of clean lines, unadorned windows and hard, easier to keep clean flooring, there has been an increase in the conversations about noise. Whether it is a noisy restaurant, inherited office space, new extension or university canteen, the issue of reverberation and/or broken concentration is always only a conversation away.

It's a bit like decluttering; removing the excess fabrics and furniture, keeping the lines clean, the floor free and the windows empty to let in as much light as possible. Decluttering is therapeutic they say; it clears the mind and boosts your mood apparently, but when that decluttering results in creating a hard walled box, leading to a cacophony of reverberant sound, the brain is anything but decluttered!

You see unless the building is new and built with acoustic glass or plasterboard, or cleverly designed to address the acoustics, many old buildings aren't built with minimal decoration in mind and the sound has nowhere to go. So apart from trickling through the smallest glass partition gap, under the door or through the air conditioning flue perhaps, where it can spread to distract people working in other areas of the building, and it will largely continue to bounce around inside a room making it incredibly difficult to listen, be heard and concentrate in.

Soundtect specialise in the manufacture of many different solutions which can be tailored to be as funky as you like to complement any office design theme, but the Class range has a more subtle approach. These highly absorbent panels offer immediate relief from reverberant sound where both walls and ceilings can be fully utilised to grab those sound waves and turn the rooms back into useable areas quietly and confidently but without the hurrah.

Soundtect manufacture their acoustic solutions from 70% recycled polyester. The products are actually a third-generation product which began life first as post consumer PET which is then recycled into exhibition carpets before the polyester fibres are re-used again, being woven into superior quality high performance acoustic felt used for the acoustic solutions.

By adding an acoustic solution by Soundtect, not only will you recover the peace in your internal environment, you will also have the peace of mind that you have done something positive for world environment too.

For more information please contact: www.soundtect.com or 0203 040 2939