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Open spaces in offices and sectors including education, hospitality, and healthcare present a constant challenge in acoustics. While open spaces do lead themselves to a more free and collaborative environment; over-bustling office spaces can often hamper bottom-line productivity. At Portable Partitions, our advanced and stylishly designed acoustic portable room dividers help you effectively reduce the echo and absorb the sound. Use our partitions and experience intelligently crafted and functional spaces without any overhead costs or loss of productivity.
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Choosing the right sound control furniture is key to achieving acoustic harmony in an office, classroom or venue.
Portable Partitions has multiple solutions that are created to suit all kinds of design and sound needs.
In a nutshell:
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These partitions don’t rely on existing walls for stability, they can be easily moved to different rooms in the building and are available in two very different materials: fabric and polycarbonate.
Operable Walls are usually floor to ceiling height partitions with one end fixed to an existing wall for stability.
Our design doesn’t require a structural beam or tracking system which helps reduce their cost by a huge factor when compared to traditional Operable Walls systems.
In a nutshell:
It is essential to know that soft furnishings like fabrics reduce sound reverberation to a great extent meanwhile
hard, reflective surfaces like polycarbonate do not absorb any sound.
Polycarbonate is a medical grade material that is recommended when visual separation is important, regular cleaning is expected and when translucency/transparency is not an issue.
Design considerations are:
Help absorb a percentage of the sound waves that hit the divider. This allows them to reduce reverberation and noise in general between the separated areas in a room. We, therefore, recommend that workstations and cubicles should be made from a soft acoustic panel to reduce the reverberation, rather than from pure glass, polycarbonate or perspex.
Design considerations are:
Folding Polycarbonate Room Divider
If maximum set up flexibility is expected, a folding room divider with hinges that let every panel rotate to any position is the best option.
If different shapes or configurations are not expected to be required now or in the future a sliding room divider will easily provide a straight line configuration.
Essentially our Wall Mounted Room Dividers are Portable Room Dividers that are wall mounted by fixing one of their end panels to a wall with L brackets.
Because they are essentially the same product they can be repurposed and moved to a different location as a portable partition if detached from the wall.
If the room divider may be used for multiple purposes then a portable room divider is a future proof option.
Open-plan offices are often implemented with the belief that they increase collaboration and teamwork. However, compelling employees to work in the open impacts their health and productivity.
Access to smaller and quieter spaces for focused work is key to boost productivity.
As the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, recently mentioned: “The idea is to make the perfect engineering space: one giant room that fits thousands of people, all close enough to collaborate together. But, crucially, it will also have plenty of private, quiet spaces as well”.
With office workers losing 86 minutes a day due to distractions! the opportunity cost of open working spaces without private workstations is high.
Video calls, group discussions or chit chat can all get in the way of creating a healthy and productive environment where things get done.
Reducing and controlling the compounding sound that groups of people create in professional workplaces is one of the main benefits of acoustic partitioning.
Portable Partitions’s acoustic walls and dividers are designed to help manage and control the sound in offices, which thereby encourages collaboration and boosts productivity.
With workspace layout plans constantly changing, mobility and flexibility are the guiding principles for effective workspace management that is also future proof.
Flexible and mobile acoustic dividers that instantly adapt spaces can help maintain an optimum balance between collaboration and individual in focus as conditions change.
Acoustics play an integral role in the success and functionality of a place. Acoustic room dividers and partitioning lend themselves to multiple applications.
Room dividers help create smaller distraction free environments within a bigger space. They can act as a wall to create a completely new space or simple as visual separation to hide messy storage areas, or distracting equipment.
They can be used to effectively manage sounds within training sessions, meeting rooms, classrooms, presentation arenas or temporary office spaces. With the rise of video calls, sound dampening has become more relevant than ever.
Additionally, our Fabric room dividers work as multiuse walls that also double-up as collaborative project boards since they can easily be used to pin up material and customised with a ‘whiteboard finish.
As an overview
At Portable Partitions Australia our acoustic room dividers work with the concept of noise reduction, absorbing sound that hits the fabric surface of the divider. This opens the possibility to manage and reduce noise in a space, especially reverberation, chit chat, and echo by adding sound absorbing partitions.
As you may imagine, if a divider needs to move, creating a perfectly sealed mobile division is extremely hard to do no matter what material is used and completely soundproof divisions are best achieved by building a traditional wall (that can’t move). Soundproofing expectations and claims should be inspected carefully.
Some of the world’s most well-respected companies including the BBC, Facebook, Twitter, Virgin, and more have adopted the open-plan office design. While this can boost collaboration, balance and employee well-being remain essential.
Creating quiet and smaller spaces dedicated for focused work is what differentiates work environments that thrive.
