For projects in Athens
Hospital and healthcare acoustics in Athens
Two duties at once: privacy where confidential conversations happen, and a lower noise floor where people are trying to rest. Hygiene and cleanability rule out a lot of products before acoustics is even discussed. Split units with condensers on balconies and in light wells that act as reverberant shafts.
- Consulting room privacy
- Speech privacy between rooms, which is partition, door and ceiling void work.
- Ward noise floor
- Alarms, trolleys and staff conversation in hard corridors. Absorption at the ceiling.
- Cleanability
- Non shedding, non absorbent surfaces that survive a cleaning regime.
- Quote
- From a plan and a section, within 48 hours
01 / What it is
The material, and what it actually does on a Athens job
Two duties at once: privacy where confidential conversations happen, and a lower noise floor where people are trying to rest. Hygiene and cleanability rule out a lot of products before acoustics is even discussed.
Split units with condensers on balconies and in light wells that act as reverberant shafts.
Work reaching us from Athens is mostly apartment blocks, hotels and short lets, restaurants and roof terraces, offices, clinics, schools.
- Concrete blocks, hard interiors The structure carries mass, so airborne transfer between flats is rarely the issue. Marble and tile making the room ring is.
- Impact through slabs Hard flooring over concrete passes footfall straight down. A resilient underlay before the finish is the fix, not a treatment below.
- Roof terraces and late trading Venues operate above and beside homes through a long season, so containment is what protects the operation.
- Consulting room privacy Speech privacy between rooms, which is partition, door and ceiling void work.
Full specification
Thickness, density, NRC by frequency, fire class, standard sizes and build-up detail for healthcare acoustics are on the main product page. This page covers what that means for a project in Athens.
02 / The build-up
The stack, in the order it is installed
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Layer 1
Ceiling baffles and clouds
PET felt suspended from the soffit, vertically as baffles or horizontally as clouds. In Athens, split units with condensers on balconies and in light wells that act as reverberant shafts.
Horizontal clouds. Flat rafts over the occupied zone, which also reflect early speech energy back down where it helps.
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Layer 2
Acoustic carpet and rugs
A tile carpet with a dense polyester face on a felt backing. In Athens, church buildings, civic halls and open air venues are hard volumes with long decay.
Loose lay on tackifier. Tiles lifted individually for access under a raised floor, which is why tile beats broadloom in an office.
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Layer 3
Acoustic panels
The full absorber range rather than one product: plain PET felt, printed felt, grooved panels and fabric finishes, chosen by how the room is used and how it has to look. In Athens, school buildings are concrete and tile with high ceilings and courtyards that amplify break time noise.
Mixed finish. Plain felt where it is out of eye line, printed or grooved where it is seen.
For a Athens practice, the useful thing is a detail you can put in a drawing set, not a brochure. See how we support architects.
03 / In this market
What decides the build-up in Athens
- Concrete blocks, hard interiors
The structure carries mass, so airborne transfer between flats is rarely the issue. Marble and tile making the room ring is.
- Impact through slabs
Hard flooring over concrete passes footfall straight down. A resilient underlay before the finish is the fix, not a treatment below.
- Roof terraces and late trading
Venues operate above and beside homes through a long season, so containment is what protects the operation.
- Piraeus is next to the city
Direct sea into the port beside Athens keeps landed cost and dates both predictable.
- Plant and HVAC
Split units with condensers on balconies and in light wells that act as reverberant shafts.
04 / Room by room
What each space in a Athens project needs
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Consulting room privacy
Speech privacy between rooms, which is partition, door and ceiling void work. The structure carries mass, so airborne transfer between flats is rarely the issue. Marble and tile making the room ring is.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 100% PET non-woven, no added binder
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, STC 30, 5.25 kg per sq m
- Acoustic panels, Cut pattern in PET felt, adds visual rhythm without changing the absorber
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Ward noise floor
Alarms, trolleys and staff conversation in hard corridors. Absorption at the ceiling. Hard flooring over concrete passes footfall straight down. A resilient underlay before the finish is the fix, not a treatment below.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 9, 12, 18 and 24 mm standard, tolerance plus or minus 5 percent
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, STC 34, 8.4 kg per sq m
- Acoustic panels, ASTM C423
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Cleanability
Non shedding, non absorbent surfaces that survive a cleaning regime. Venues operate above and beside homes through a long season, so containment is what protects the operation.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 4 to 24 mm
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, 12.6 kg per sq m, STC on request
- Acoustic panels, 9 to 24 mm, 1220 x 2440 mm standard, up to 2440 x 4270 mm, 1200 to 3600 GSM
Designers get colour, pattern and CNC options with the absorption figure attached to each. See how we work with interior designers.
04 / Conditions
The Athens climate decides the material list
Athens is hot dry summers and mild wet winters, and that narrows the material list before acoustics is discussed.
The swing between a dry summer and a wet winter moves timber. PET felt is dimensionally stable across that swing; slat panels want a stable substrate and a ventilated fixing.
The failure we design against here is seasonal movement in timber and winter damp in unheated stock.
If a consultant has set the target, we will quote against their figures rather than ours, and stay out of the scope they own. More on working with acoustic consultants.
06 / Straight talk
Six mistakes that turn into a second fit-out
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Fabric wrapped products in a clinical area
Plant noise treated as a room problem is the most reliable way to spend a budget and change nothing anyone can hear.
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Absorption used where privacy was the requirement
If the complaint is being overheard, no amount of absorption inside the room will fix it. That is a partition job and we will say so.
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Ceiling void left open above a partition
Square metre for square metre the ceiling is the cheapest result in the room. Skipping it and buying wall panels instead is the most common way to overspend.
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Treating it as a generic Athens job
The structure carries mass, so airborne transfer between flats is rarely the issue. Marble and tile making the room ring is.
05 / Supply
How material reaches a Athens site
| Ships from | Palwal, Haryana, India |
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| Arrives at | Piraeus, then a short road run to site |
| Dispatch | 4 to 7 working days |
| Freight | Sea via Piraeus |
| Support | Drawings, build-ups, BOQ and material that arrives complete |
Standard items dispatch in 4 to 7 working days. Grooved panels and custom colours take longer, and we say so before you order, not after.
Sea freight into Piraeus, then a short road run to site. Air freight for samples and urgent quantities.
Questions from Athens projects
What makes hospital and healthcare acoustics different in Athens?
Split units with condensers on balconies and in light wells that act as reverberant shafts. The structure carries mass, so airborne transfer between flats is rarely the issue. Marble and tile making the room ring is.
Where should the budget go first on a Athens project?
Consulting room privacy. Speech privacy between rooms, which is partition, door and ceiling void work. Ward noise floor. Alarms, trolleys and staff conversation in hard corridors. Absorption at the ceiling.
Do you have an office or installation team in Athens?
No. We manufacture in India and supply into Athens. We give you drawings, build-ups, a BOQ and material that arrives complete, and we will tell you plainly when a job needs a local contractor we cannot be.
How does material get to a Athens site?
ships from: Palwal, Haryana, India, arrives at: Piraeus, then a short road run to site, dispatch: 4 to 7 working days. Standard items dispatch in 4 to 7 working days. Grooved panels and custom colours take longer, and we say so before you order, not after.
What goes wrong most often on this kind of project?
Fabric wrapped products in a clinical area. Absorption used where privacy was the requirement.
What do you need from us to quote?
A plan, a section through the critical partition or ceiling, and what the room is for. From that we can give a build-up and a BOQ rather than a price per square foot.
Next step
Send the drawings, get a straight answer
We quote from drawings, not from a square foot rate. Send a plan and the section through the critical wall or ceiling and you will get something you can actually build from.