Acoustic ceilings or Acoustic wall panels are highly effective at lowering the noise levels in offices & call centres to enhance the work environment
Why offices or call centres become noisy or have echo problems & how to fix the problem
In offices & call centres where workers have to communicate in order to carry out their work functions, a mixture of many people talking and an office with hard reflective surfaces is a recipe for acoustic problems such as echoes or unwanted loud noise.
The good news is it is easy to resolve these noise or echo problems through the use of acoustic panels or acoustic foam products which are highly effective at absorbing all the sound reflections and hence will keep the office quiet, even in busy times.
The good news is it is easy to resolve these noise or echo problems through the use of acoustic panels or acoustic foam products which are highly effective at absorbing all the sound reflections and hence will keep the office quiet, even in busy times.
In the modern offices and call centres today, management has tended to allow architects to design what we call an open office environment. These large rooms are often filled with many work stations and are a hive of human activity. In to keep a harmonised work environment so that the staff are not affected by loud conversations going on around them, the installation of an acoustic ceiling or acoustic wall panels will keep noise levels low.
The advantages of such an "Open office environment" is good work flows and it is very easy to talk to a fellow colleagues about business related matters, often without having to get up and leave your desk.
The disadvantage with this office layouts is that it is very easy to get distracted by one person who talks on the phone too loud. Often partitions which are constructed from foam and fabric laminates will be setup around individual work stations in the belief that they will absorb noise and thus keep the room quiet.
Nothing could be further from the truth. These partitions usually have a foam layer in them which is no more than 2-3 mm in thickness. At these low thickness levels it is impossible that they could absorb any significant amount of noise.
The only way to reduce noise levels in the office is with some form of acoustic foam insulation.
The advantages of such an "Open office environment" is good work flows and it is very easy to talk to a fellow colleagues about business related matters, often without having to get up and leave your desk.
The disadvantage with this office layouts is that it is very easy to get distracted by one person who talks on the phone too loud. Often partitions which are constructed from foam and fabric laminates will be setup around individual work stations in the belief that they will absorb noise and thus keep the room quiet.
Nothing could be further from the truth. These partitions usually have a foam layer in them which is no more than 2-3 mm in thickness. At these low thickness levels it is impossible that they could absorb any significant amount of noise.
The only way to reduce noise levels in the office is with some form of acoustic foam insulation.
Products that can be used to acoustically treat the offices & call centres
- Acoustic wall panels
- Acoustic ceiling panels
- Acoustic Baffles
- Acoustic Ribbons
- Acoustic Clouds
Acoustic Wall Panels
Holmesglen - TAFE | Chadstone Campus
We recently got a request for help from the marketing unit at Holmesglen TAFE. The problem was that the staff had their desks located very close to the conference room. Sound was leaking out through an open door and was also penetrating through the walls.
Melfoam Acoustics was asked to reduce the noise level that was being generated in the conference room so that the marketing team would not be disturbed by the noise.
Eighteen acoustic wall panels were fitted to two walls. The purpose of these panels was to soak up the sound waves that were bouncing from one wall to another.
One week after the installation we visited the staff and asked them if the acoustic wall panels had given them the desired outcome they wanted.
What was reported back to us was that they could no longer hear the conversations that were being discussed in the room. One of the staff members who sits directly opposite the open door reported that she is unaware of people in the conference room talking unless somebody deliberately raised their voice during a discussion.
The acoustic wall panels which are made of flame resistant melamine acoustic foam and were treated with 3M Scotchgard for easy cleaning.
We recently got a request for help from the marketing unit at Holmesglen TAFE. The problem was that the staff had their desks located very close to the conference room. Sound was leaking out through an open door and was also penetrating through the walls.
Melfoam Acoustics was asked to reduce the noise level that was being generated in the conference room so that the marketing team would not be disturbed by the noise.
Eighteen acoustic wall panels were fitted to two walls. The purpose of these panels was to soak up the sound waves that were bouncing from one wall to another.
One week after the installation we visited the staff and asked them if the acoustic wall panels had given them the desired outcome they wanted.
What was reported back to us was that they could no longer hear the conversations that were being discussed in the room. One of the staff members who sits directly opposite the open door reported that she is unaware of people in the conference room talking unless somebody deliberately raised their voice during a discussion.
The acoustic wall panels which are made of flame resistant melamine acoustic foam and were treated with 3M Scotchgard for easy cleaning.