Improving acoustic clarity in a specialist healthcare environment
Jacobs’ Manchester office required a flexible and contemporary meeting environment capable of supporting a wide range of daily activities. Working in partnership with ADT, Style North was appointed to deliver a solution that offered both striking visual design and highly practical adaptability.
Jacobs’ Manchester office required a flexible and contemporary meeting environment capable of supporting a wide range of daily activities. Working in partnership with ADT, Style North was appointed to deliver a solution that offered both striking visual design and highly practical adaptability.
To meet the client’s brief, Style installed 90-degree Dorma Variflex semi-automatic glass moveable walls featuring sleek black profiles to complement the modern aesthetic of the space. These glass elements intersect seamlessly with a solid Dorma Variflex semi-automatic wall, finished with a dual-purpose writable whiteboard surface and Camira fabric acoustic absorption panels on either side to enhance both functionality and acoustic comfort.
This configuration allows the area to operate as a single open space or be divided into one or two separate rooms as required. With semi-automatic operation, the system ensures smooth, reliable movement and consistent sealing pressure, supporting enhanced acoustic performance and ease of use.
The Camira acoustic panels further contribute to noise control within the workspace, while the robust Variflex construction ensures long-term durability suited to demanding commercial environments.
Overall, the installation provides Jacobs with a versatile, efficient, and visually refined meeting area that can adapt effortlessly to varying working and collaboration needs.
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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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