For projects in Belgium
Office acoustics and soundproofing in Belgium
Three separate problems get called one problem: speech carrying across an open floor, meeting rooms that leak, and hard rooms that ring. Each has a different answer and mixing them up is how budgets get wasted. Balanced mechanical ventilation in newer stock and radiators in older buildings, so duct noise depends on the age.
- Open plan
- Distraction distance, not reverberation time. Ceiling absorption plus screens at the desk.
- Meeting rooms
- Privacy between rooms. That is partition and door work, not panels.
- Cabins and calls
- Short RT so a call sounds clean. A small amount of well placed absorber.
- Quote
- From a plan and a section, within 48 hours
01 / What it is
The product, described honestly, for a Belgium brief
Three separate problems get called one problem: speech carrying across an open floor, meeting rooms that leak, and hard rooms that ring. Each has a different answer and mixing them up is how budgets get wasted.
Balanced mechanical ventilation in newer stock and radiators in older buildings, so duct noise depends on the age.
Work reaching us from Belgium is mostly terraced housing, institutional and corporate offices, schools, clinics, restaurants, studios.
- Antwerp is the advantage The port is close to almost everywhere in the country, so the inland leg barely registers. That is the practical reason a factory in India competes well here.
- Terraced brick, shared on both sides Most housing shares a party wall left and right. Speech and impact noise move sideways, which is a mass and decoupling job rather than a treatment job.
- Institutional meeting spaces Offices built for meetings in several languages need speech privacy and clean intelligibility at the same time, which pulls the design in two directions unless the ceiling is handled properly.
- Open plan Distraction distance, not reverberation time. Ceiling absorption plus screens at the desk.
Full specification
Thickness, density, NRC by frequency, fire class, standard sizes and build-up detail for office acoustics are on the main product page. This page covers what that means for a project in Belgium.
Office and conference room acoustics Acoustic office screens
02 / The build-up
The build-up, layer by layer
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Layer 1
PET felt acoustic panels
A rigid non-woven panel pressed from 100% polyester fibre, a large part of it recycled. In Belgium, balanced mechanical ventilation in newer stock and radiators in older buildings, so duct noise depends on the age.
Over a porous backing. Panel over mineral or PET backing where the room needs genuine low mid control.
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Layer 2
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 Belgium, church buildings, civic halls and converted industrial spaces have long decay and hard surfaces.
Ceiling first. In most rooms the ceiling is the largest untreated surface and the cheapest square metre of result.
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Layer 3
SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl
A limp, high density sheet that adds mass to a partition, floor or duct without adding depth. In Belgium, school buildings are hard surfaced with long corridors, and refectories are consistently the loudest rooms.
Wall, decoupled. Independent stud, membrane between the boards, cavity absorption, two boards. The membrane is one part of a system, never the whole answer.
We would rather argue about the build-up at design stage than on site. See how we support architects.
03 / On the ground
What the buildings in Belgium do to the specification
- Antwerp is the advantage
The port is close to almost everywhere in the country, so the inland leg barely registers. That is the practical reason a factory in India competes well here.
- Terraced brick, shared on both sides
Most housing shares a party wall left and right. Speech and impact noise move sideways, which is a mass and decoupling job rather than a treatment job.
- Institutional meeting spaces
Offices built for meetings in several languages need speech privacy and clean intelligibility at the same time, which pulls the design in two directions unless the ceiling is handled properly.
- Renovation, not new build
The structure usually stays. Build-ups have to fit the depth and finishes already there, so shallow and effective beats thick and theoretically better.
- Plant and HVAC
Balanced mechanical ventilation in newer stock and radiators in older buildings, so duct noise depends on the age.
04 / Room by room
Space by space, for Belgium briefs
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Open plan
Distraction distance, not reverberation time. Ceiling absorption plus screens at the desk. The port is close to almost everywhere in the country, so the inland leg barely registers. That is the practical reason a factory in India competes well here.
- Ceiling baffles and clouds, 100% PET non-woven, the panel family
- 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
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Meeting rooms
Privacy between rooms. That is partition and door work, not panels. Most housing shares a party wall left and right. Speech and impact noise move sideways, which is a mass and decoupling job rather than a treatment job.
- Ceiling baffles and clouds, 9 to 24 mm
- PET felt acoustic panels, 4 to 24 mm
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, 12.6 kg per sq m, STC on request
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Cabins and calls
Short RT so a call sounds clean. A small amount of well placed absorber. Offices built for meetings in several languages need speech privacy and clean intelligibility at the same time, which pulls the design in two directions unless the ceiling is handled properly.
- Ceiling baffles and clouds, Made to the drawing, standard and custom
- PET felt acoustic panels, 1220 x 2440 mm standard, 4 x 8 ft
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, 5 x 1.2 m, 6 sq m per roll
Interior designers tend to arrive with the look already decided. We will tell you which finish gets there without losing the acoustics. See how we work with interior designers.
04 / Climate and durability
Why the climate in Belgium changes the material, not the target
Belgium is cool and damp, with long heating seasons and cold external walls, and that narrows the material list before acoustics is discussed.
Cold wall build-ups and long heating seasons mean interstitial condensation is a real risk behind any lining. PET felt is unaffected by damp air and will not feed mould where a fabric-faced mineral product would.
The failure we design against here is condensation behind linings in older, poorly insulated 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 / Worth knowing
Where this kind of project usually fails
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Lining every wall while leaving the ceiling bare
A treated wall under a bare hard ceiling gives you a fraction of the reduction you paid for, and the room still sounds wrong.
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Treating a privacy problem with absorption
Nobody has ever achieved speech privacy with a panel. Privacy needs mass, a sealed head detail and a door that actually closes.
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Glass cabins specified without a door and head detail
A gap undoes the partition it sits in. Sealing is the cheapest line on the quote and the first one to get cut.
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Treating it as a generic Belgium job
The port is close to almost everywhere in the country, so the inland leg barely registers. That is the practical reason a factory in India competes well here.
05 / Supply
How material reaches a Belgium site
| Ships from | Palwal, Haryana, India |
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| Arrives at | Antwerp, then a short road run to site |
| Dispatch | 4 to 7 working days |
| Freight | Sea via Antwerp |
| 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 Antwerp, then a short road run to site. Air freight for samples and urgent quantities.
Questions from Belgium projects
What makes office acoustics and soundproofing different in Belgium?
Balanced mechanical ventilation in newer stock and radiators in older buildings, so duct noise depends on the age. The port is close to almost everywhere in the country, so the inland leg barely registers. That is the practical reason a factory in India competes well here.
Where should the budget go first on a Belgium project?
Open plan. Distraction distance, not reverberation time. Ceiling absorption plus screens at the desk. Meeting rooms. Privacy between rooms. That is partition and door work, not panels.
Do you have an office or installation team in Belgium?
No. We manufacture in India and supply into Belgium. 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 Belgium site?
ships from: Palwal, Haryana, India, arrives at: Antwerp, 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?
Lining every wall while leaving the ceiling bare. Treating a privacy problem with absorption.
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 a plan and a section, get a real build-up
A plan and a section is enough. We will come back with a build-up, a BOQ and a delivered date, and we will say so if what you are asking for will not work.