Creating an acoustic environment that gives both speech privacy in meeting rooms and concentration in open plan areas for senior management.
ICON is a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. Acoustic Comfort presented a way of controlling the acoustic environment giving speech privacy in meeting rooms and concentration in open plan areas. The latter was of great importance not only because of the type of work involved but because all the senior management were to work there.
Following a short trial of the LogiSon Sound Masking System in their existing building, the decision was made to install the system throughout the four new buildings. In addition to this, Acoustic Comfort recommended a change of ceiling tile specification to the Rockfon Koral tile. The LogiSon system paid for itself in reduced fit out costs. The meeting room walls were raised from floor to under ceiling with no vertical barriers in either plenum, making the air handling and lighting simpler to install.
The four buildings each have a control panel each controlling four floors of predominantly open plan office space. The buildings are connected by one large glass covered atrium containing both reception and canteens. In this space we provided four large 9m2 Reverb wall art panels to reduce reverberation.
