Improving acoustic clarity in a specialist healthcare environment
Saffron Lane Medical Centre is a general practitioner in Leicester and plays a vital part in the local community with training and medical facilities. It assists with medical advice, support and referrals for all ages in the Leicester area ensuring everyone is well looked after. As part of a large extension to the existing building, Saffron […]
Saffron Lane Medical Centre is a general practitioner in Leicester and plays a vital part in the local community with training and medical facilities. It assists with medical advice, support and referrals for all ages in the Leicester area ensuring everyone is well looked after.
As part of a large extension to the existing building, Saffron Lane Medical Centre had a desire to create flexible room space to cater for a variety of meetings and educational talks.
Working with P&HS Architects and Wildgoose Construction, Style was specified to install 2 identical manually operated DORMA Variflex ML100 moveable walls in the meeting and training room where doctors, nurses and other staff members host and attend briefings, meetings, training sessions and other activities.
With impressive 55dB Rw acoustic integrity, these moveable walls not only enable the space to be divided or opened up with ease, they also offer exceptional privacy so that meetings and gatherings can take place either side of the walls undisturbed.
The final solution enables medical centre staff to quickly and easily divide the room into 3 smaller meeting rooms, have 1 small room and 1 larger room, or create one large open plan space depending on the function and its numbers.
Finished in a white Ral 9010, these moveable walls complement the interior design of the room, sustaining a modest and calm atmosphere for a busy medical environment.
“Flexible room space of this kind is perfect for a newly built training and meeting room facility,” said Mike Fine, Style’s director for the midlands.
“By having adaptable space, Saffron Lane Medical Centre will save money in the long run by being able to accommodate several meetings at a time, which avoids the need to hire external training rooms or pay for staff to travel to other medical centres.
“Style has extensive experience of installing moveable walls for the NHS and healthcare sector, and we have a wide-ranging choice of manual, semi-automatic and fully automatic moveable walls to cater for all requirements and budgets. This includes glass partitions with in-built modesty blinds which means they can deliver an open plan feel or be closed for complete patient privacy.”
Style is the UK’s leading moveable wall specialist, and has delivered many very high profile installations throughout the UK, working across multiple market sectors including corporate, education, hospitality, local authority, religion and health.
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