Improving acoustic clarity in a specialist healthcare environment
In March 2025, Wise moved into its new global headquarters at Worship Square, London, increasing its footprint by 40% and accommodating over 1000 staff.
HLW Architects
Overbury
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. With Wise Account and Wise Business, people and businesses can hold 40 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new network for the world’s money.
In March 2025, Wise moved into its new global headquarters at Worship Square, London, increasing its footprint by 40% and accommodating over 1000 staff.
Working with HLW Architects and contractor, Overbury, Style was specified to create a highly flexible meeting room area that could be quickly adapted to cater for 10 people to 150.
Choosing a combination of Dorma Huppe solid and glass moveable walls, Style delivered a highly adaptable solution with high-end acoustic integrity; the solid walls offering a 59dB Rw rating and the glass 52dB Rw.
The semi-automatic operation of all of the walls ensures the acoustic seals are applied to the correct pressure each time they are closed, pass doors provide ease of access, and the combination of glass frames painted in black, the customer supplied veneer and the blue fabric delivers a highly stylish interior design.
Better still, all of the cross walls that divide up the space are finished in a white writable surface, which means they can be used for brainstorming and meeting notes.
“This is a really superb combination of moveable walls that provide a number of small meeting rooms when required, or the facility to quickly change the space for larger meetings, all the way up to a full auditorium,” said Michael Porter, Style’s group managing director.
“The Variflex is a global market leading moveable wall, and it also leads the way in sustainability, making it the perfect option for a meeting and conferencing area in a prestigious office building.”
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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