For projects in Istanbul
School and classroom acoustics in Istanbul
Hard floors, bare walls and long corridors that amplify everything. Children with developing language, and anyone with a hearing difficulty, lose more from a live classroom than adults do, which is why intelligibility is the target rather than quiet. Classrooms are concrete and tile with large class sizes and long hard corridors.
- Classroom RT
- A number, set against room volume, achieved mostly at the ceiling.
- Corridor spill
- Long hard circulation feeds every room off it. Treating the corridor helps every classroom at once.
- Halls and gyms
- Dual use rooms carrying speech, music and sport, where durability decides the product.
- Quote
- From a plan and a section, within 48 hours
01 / Start here
The product, described honestly, for a Istanbul brief
Hard floors, bare walls and long corridors that amplify everything. Children with developing language, and anyone with a hearing difficulty, lose more from a live classroom than adults do, which is why intelligibility is the target rather than quiet.
Classrooms are concrete and tile with large class sizes and long hard corridors.
Work reaching us from Istanbul is mostly apartment blocks, hotels, offices and towers, restaurants, hospitals, schools.
- Built to move Seismic detailing means junctions that must stay flexible. An acoustic build-up cannot stiffen across a movement joint.
- Concrete blocks, live rooms The structure carries mass, so the recurring problems are impact through slabs and interiors with nothing soft in them.
- A city that never goes quiet Traffic, ferries and street life reach rooms through glazing rather than walls. Fix the facade path before the wall.
- Classroom RT A number, set against room volume, achieved mostly at the ceiling.
Full specification
Thickness, density, NRC by frequency, fire class, standard sizes and build-up detail for school acoustics are on the main product page. This page covers what that means for a project in Istanbul.
02 / The build-up
The build-up, layer by layer
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Layer 1
Wood wool acoustic panels
Wood fibre bound into a rigid board with an open texture. In Istanbul, split units and VRF with condensers on facades and in light wells close to bedrooms.
On a cavity. Mounted on battens with an air gap, which is where the low mid performance comes from.
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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 Istanbul, mosques, cultural centres and function halls are tall hard volumes carrying amplified speech.
Wall array. Panels placed at first reflection points rather than spread evenly. Fewer panels, better result.
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Layer 3
Acoustic carpet and rugs
A tile carpet with a dense polyester face on a felt backing. In Istanbul, classrooms are concrete and tile with large class sizes and long hard corridors.
Zoned. Carpet in the circulation and meeting zones, hard floor elsewhere, so the treatment sits where the noise is made.
For a Istanbul practice, the useful thing is a detail you can put in a drawing set, not a brochure. See how we support architects.
03 / On the ground
What decides the build-up in Istanbul
- Built to move
Seismic detailing means junctions that must stay flexible. An acoustic build-up cannot stiffen across a movement joint.
- Concrete blocks, live rooms
The structure carries mass, so the recurring problems are impact through slabs and interiors with nothing soft in them.
- A city that never goes quiet
Traffic, ferries and street life reach rooms through glazing rather than walls. Fix the facade path before the wall.
- Turkey manufactures too
Domestic supply exists, so we are worth importing where the specification, the colour consistency or the supply chain is the reason.
- Assembly and performance rooms
Mosques, cultural centres and function halls are tall hard volumes carrying amplified speech.
- School and campus buildings
Classrooms are concrete and tile with large class sizes and long hard corridors.
04 / Room by room
What each space in a Istanbul project needs
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Classroom RT
A number, set against room volume, achieved mostly at the ceiling. Seismic detailing means junctions that must stay flexible. An acoustic build-up cannot stiffen across a movement joint.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 100% PET non-woven, no added binder
- Acoustic panels, 1800 x 900 mm, image printed into the felt rather than onto a facing
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, High density polyester
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Corridor spill
Long hard circulation feeds every room off it. Treating the corridor helps every classroom at once. The structure carries mass, so the recurring problems are impact through slabs and interiors with nothing soft in them.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 9, 12, 18 and 24 mm standard, tolerance plus or minus 5 percent
- Acoustic panels, Cut pattern in PET felt, adds visual rhythm without changing the absorber
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, Felt
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Halls and gyms
Dual use rooms carrying speech, music and sport, where durability decides the product. Traffic, ferries and street life reach rooms through glazing rather than walls. Fix the facade path before the wall.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 4 to 24 mm
- Acoustic panels, ASTM C423
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, 64 sq ft per pack
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 / Conditions
The Istanbul climate decides the material list
Istanbul 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.
Where a consultant is already engaged on a Istanbul project, we supply to their specification and send the test reports rather than describing them. More on working with acoustic consultants.
06 / Worth knowing
Six mistakes that turn into a second fit-out
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Panels at child height where they get damaged
It sounds like a small detail until the room is finished and the complaint arrives.
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Treating one classroom and leaving the corridor
This is the one that comes back as a second fit-out rather than a snag.
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Choosing a product that cannot take a football
Enclose the machine, break the vibration path, then deal with what is left. Doing it in the other order costs more and achieves less.
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Treating it as a generic Istanbul job
Seismic detailing means junctions that must stay flexible. An acoustic build-up cannot stiffen across a movement joint.
05 / Route to site
How material reaches a Istanbul site
| Ships from | Palwal, Haryana, India |
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| Arrives at | Ambarlı or Mersin, then road to site |
| Dispatch | 4 to 7 working days |
| Freight | Sea via Ambarlı |
| 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 Ambarlı or Mersin, then road to site. Air freight for samples and urgent quantities.
Questions from Istanbul projects
What makes school and classroom acoustics different in Istanbul?
Classrooms are concrete and tile with large class sizes and long hard corridors. Seismic detailing means junctions that must stay flexible. An acoustic build-up cannot stiffen across a movement joint.
Where should the budget go first on a Istanbul project?
Classroom RT. A number, set against room volume, achieved mostly at the ceiling. Corridor spill. Long hard circulation feeds every room off it. Treating the corridor helps every classroom at once.
Do you have an office or installation team in Istanbul?
No. We manufacture in India and supply into Istanbul. 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 Istanbul site?
ships from: Palwal, Haryana, India, arrives at: Ambarlı or Mersin, then road 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?
Panels at child height where they get damaged. Treating one classroom and leaving the corridor.
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
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.