Improving acoustic clarity in a specialist healthcare environment
The purpose-built facility ensures the College is a first choice for those looking for the very best Performing Arts, Media, Graphic Design and Creative Arts courses. A key ingredient to the facility’s success was to make it as flexible as possible for a wide range of activities. Working with architects, Pick Everard of Leicester, and […]
The purpose-built facility ensures the College is a first choice for those looking for the very best Performing Arts, Media, Graphic Design and Creative Arts courses.
A key ingredient to the facility’s success was to make it as flexible as possible for a wide range of activities. Working with architects, Pick Everard of Leicester, and contractor, ISG RegionsLtd, Style was commissioned to install a large moveable partitioning wall that would enable the college to use the main dance hall for a multitude of purposes.
“We chose DORMA Variflex 55dB (Rw) as the optimum solution,” said Mike Fine, Style’s Director for the Midlands, “and we installed twelve panels totalling 14.9 metre wide and 6.64 metre high, all with a clean and stylish laminate finish. Ease of use is essential, particularly when manoeuvring very large panels such as these, however by utilising the Variflex Type 14 Smart Track system at each end, tall heavy panels can be moved very effortlessly into and out of the parking areas.
“They also glide into position without any need to manually direct them because the selectors and diverters guide the panels to the correct location every time.”
“The end result looks superb,” continued Mike, “and this operable wall opens up the scope for how the room can be used, it means more students can enjoy the studio, and it increases the number of classes and rehearsals that can be conducted each day.”
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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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