Improving acoustic clarity in a specialist healthcare environment
For the meeting areas, it was important to quickly reconfigure the rooms and breakout area, and to achieve this 55dB Dorma Moveo with semi-automatic seals was installed. Also in American black walnut, it offered consistent styling for the hotel by using the same finish across two different moveable wall solutions.
3D Reid
Thomas Johnstone
Working with contractor, Thomas Johnstone, and architects, 3D Reid, Style was appointed to create flexible space in both the main ballroom and the meeting areas as part of the refurbishment project. Dorma Variflex with a 60dB acoustic rating was chosen for the main ballroom in a stunning American black walnut finish delivering a breathtaking arrangement.
For the meeting areas, it was important to quickly reconfigure the rooms and breakout area, and to achieve this 55dB Dorma Moveo with semi-automatic seals was installed. Also in American black walnut, it offered consistent styling for the hotel by using the same finish across two different moveable wall solutions.
“Both partitioning wall systems offer the Sheraton Grand flexibility and superb interior design,”
said David Louden, Style’s director for Scotland.
“The systems are so light and easy to manoeuvre, the rooms can be reconfigured quickly and with very little effort.
“The acoustic qualities are superb, enabling events to be run in adjacent rooms without interference and we installed pass doors for ease of access when the walls are in place.”
“For hotels, flexible space is critical so that events can be run concurrently, therefore maximising revenue, and it means the best use of space can be organised depending on the size of the occasion. For this reason, we work with many hotels across the UK, and the hospitality sector is an area where we have a great deal of experience.”
If you would like to see the Dorma Variflex movable walls system in action, why not take a look at our movable wall videos.
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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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