Improving acoustic clarity in a specialist healthcare environment
This easy to manoeuvre, top hung folding wall is ideal for sub-dividing this type of space, enabling staff to quickly create 2 separate rooms or leave it as one large open plan area.
The Elizabeth Place Retirement Village is a McCarthy & Stone development in the desirable town of Market Harborough, featuring an idyllic setting with state-of-the-art facilities. These include home-from-home apartments where owners have access to incredible landscape gardens, a bistro/restaurant, guest suites for visitors and modern communal areas – all fitted with fire detection, camera entry systems, intruder alarms and 24 hour staffing.
With a desire to create flexible space within an area used as a wellness, function room and a dining room, Style worked with Millward architects and McCarthy & Stone Retirement Lifestyles Ltd to install a Stylefold 120, manually operated folding wall.
This easy to manoeuvre, top hung folding wall is ideal for sub-dividing this type of space, enabling staff to quickly create 2 separate rooms or leave it as one large open plan area.
With impressive 41dB Rw acoustic integrity, and an integral pass door, it also means the wall can be left in place for extended periods while the area is used as 2 separate rooms.
A grey laminate finish complements the modern, contemporary interior design of this newly built retirement village, making this a stylish addition to the building as well as delivering adaptable space to cater for a variety of occasions and events.
“This is a great example of where a simple folding wall is the perfect solution,” said Mike Fine, Style’s director for the midlands.
“As the UK’s leading moveable wall specialist, we have an extensive portfolio of solutions which means we can cater for all requirements and budgets from small folding walls like this one through to vast projects at exhibition centres, company boardrooms and university lecture theatres.”
Style is the exclusive UK partner to DORMA, Skyfold and SWG and has won multiple awards over two decades in the UK moveable wall sector. As well as offering market leading products, Style prides itself on its people, systems and processes, as well as its high attention to detail, sustainability and health and safety.
Style works across multiple market sectors, including healthcare, education, corporate, hospitality, religion and local authority.
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