Improving acoustic clarity in a specialist healthcare environment
Located in Weston-Super-Mare, the Food Works is a vibrant new centre of excellence for nurturing local food and drink business, connecting local producers to collaborate, innovate, identify new markets and create jobs within the sector. The Food Works creates a focal point, and regional centre of excellence, for food and drink businesses across the South West, helping […]
Located in Weston-Super-Mare, the Food Works is a vibrant new centre of excellence for nurturing local food and drink business, connecting local producers to collaborate, innovate, identify new markets and create jobs within the sector.
The Food Works creates a focal point, and regional centre of excellence, for food and drink businesses across the South West, helping new businesses begin their journey and more established producers innovate and grow.
Working with architect, AWW Inspired Environments, and contractor, Willmot Dixon, Style was specified to install 2 Dorma Huppe Variflex moveable walls in the training and meeting area.
Each with 55dB Rw acoustic integrity and semi-automatic operation, these hugely popular operable walls can quickly and easily separate the room into 3 equally sized areas, allowing for 3 meetings/training courses to be held concurrently and undisturbed.
Alternatively, the room can be converted into one large and one small room, or when the walls are not in position, the room can be opened up to cater for larger groups, seminars, presentations or group demonstrations.
Complementing the interior design, the moveable walls’ Pearl Grey finish provide a clean, light and spacious feel throughout the room, and by offering adaptable space the Food Works can maximise its room hire revenue by hosting multiple events concurrently.
“This project at the Food Works is a prime example of how moveable walls can create adaptable room configurations for businesses that sell rooms for hire,” said Julian Sargent, Style’s group managing director.
“Depending on each day’s bookings, the room can be quickly reconfigured with the semi-automatic operation ensuring that the acoustic seals move into place perfectly each time.
“As a result, the exceptional 55dB acoustic rating means the Food Works can hire out its training rooms with complete confidence, certain that delegates will enjoy a professional, private and undisturbed environment – even if a more boisterous gathering is taking place adjacently.”
Style is the market leading, exclusive UK partner to Dorma Huppe, Skyfold and SWG, offering an extensive range of moveable and folding walls for all requirements and budgets.
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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