Improving acoustic clarity in a specialist healthcare environment
Custom-shaped Horizon ceiling rafts were developed to provide effective sound absorption while introducing a strong design feature overhead. In addition, Autex printed timber beams were installed, along with groove-patterned acoustic wall panels to focus rooms and phone booths, enhancing both privacy and acoustic comfort.
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Overbury
The Arup Manchester office required a refined acoustic approach to support collaboration, focus and visual quality within a contemporary workplace. Working alongside the design team and Overbury under a design and build contract, Style collaborated closely with the factory to deliver a bespoke acoustic solution.
Custom-shaped Horizon ceiling rafts were developed to provide effective sound absorption while introducing a strong design feature overhead. In addition, Autex printed timber beams were installed, along with groove-patterned acoustic wall panels to focus rooms and phone booths, enhancing both privacy and acoustic comfort.
The integrated use of bespoke ceiling elements and detailed wall treatments delivers a balanced acoustic environment that aligns performance, functionality and architectural intent.
Talk to us about your acoustic goals — we’ll help you design a solution that sounds as good as it looks.
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HBN 00-09 sets out these surface characteristics because unsealed joints are a recognised place for moisture and micro-organisms to collect. A genuinely joint-free edge is designed to address that specific detail.
This is a surface and edge specification, not a clinical claim. Zero-joint technology has not been evaluated or certified by NHS England, and does not claim to reduce infection rates.
Food-service and guest-facing areas are typically inspected under hygiene and housekeeping standards that look closely at surfaces and joints. A seamless, moisture-resistant edge is designed with exactly that kind of scrutiny in mind.
Every one of these sectors shares the same underlying surface problem: a bonded-strip edge is a seam, and a seam is a place where dirt, moisture or wear can concentrate in a way a continuous surface can't. Zero-joint technology addresses that one structural detail across offices, schools, healthcare and hospitality settings alike — one construction detail, one shared weak point removed, four sectors that each care about it for their own reasons.
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