Improving acoustic clarity in a specialist healthcare environment
With the spotlight on businesses moving into The Shard, Duff & Phelps will always be known for being the first commercial fit out in the tower. Working with architects, Gensler, and contractor, Paragon Interiors, Style also became the first partitioning walls specialist to be entrusted with creating flexible space in London’s new landmark building. To […]
With the spotlight on businesses moving into The Shard, Duff & Phelps will always be known for being the first commercial fit out in the tower.
Working with architects, Gensler, and contractor, Paragon Interiors, Style also became the first partitioning walls specialist to be entrusted with creating flexible space in London’s new landmark building.
To maximise floor space, and create a real sense of panache, Skyfold was chosen as the ideal solution for Duff & Phelps’ boardroom. As a vertically rising, fully automatic, acoustic moveable wall, Skyfold is housed discreetly in the ceiling cavity lowering silently into place with the push of a button.
“We were thrilled to have been chosen for the first commercial fit-out in the Shard,” said Julian Sargent, Style’s group managing director, “and delighted it was for a firm of such global pedigree as Duff & Phelps.
“Not only is Style very well respected in London for our work with many major corporates, we are also held in very esteem for the quality of our project management, health and safety record and overall working practices.
“In a building such as The Shard, these vital ingredients become extremely important and our selection is often not just to do with our partitioning wall solutions but the quality of our people, processes and practices too when on-site.
“This first project was on the 14th floor and we look forward to working with many other clients further up the tower!
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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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