For projects in Jordan
Hospital and healthcare acoustics in Jordan
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 and central plant with seasonal heating and cooling, condensers on roofs and balconies.
- 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 product, described honestly, for a Jordan brief
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 and central plant with seasonal heating and cooling, condensers on roofs and balconies.
Work reaching us from Jordan is mostly hotels and hospitality, offices, institutional buildings, hospitals, schools, venues.
- Stone inside and out Limestone cladding and hard floors give real mass but nothing absorbs anything. Ceiling absorption usually does most of the work.
- Aqaba, then the drive north The port is at the far south. We quote the sea leg and the road leg separately so the programme runs on real dates.
- Dry heat and sealed rooms Air conditioned rooms stay closed, so sound accumulates inside and plant noise matters more than street noise.
- 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 Jordan.
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 Jordan, split units and central plant with seasonal heating and cooling, condensers on roofs and balconies.
On a 25 to 50 mm air gap. The same panel on battens. The air gap moves absorption down in frequency at no extra material cost, and is the cheapest improvement available.
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Layer 2
Ceiling baffles and clouds
PET felt suspended from the soffit, vertically as baffles or horizontally as clouds. In Jordan, mosques, churches and civic halls are stone volumes with very long reverberation.
Horizontal clouds. Flat rafts over the occupied zone, which also reflect early speech energy back down where it helps.
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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 Jordan, school and university buildings are stone and concrete with high ceilings and long corridors that carry every sound.
Wall array. Panels placed at first reflection points rather than spread evenly. Fewer panels, better result.
Architects working in Jordan usually need the build-up before the product. We will draw the section and mark what does the work. See how we support architects.
03 / In this market
What the buildings in Jordan do to the specification
- Stone inside and out
Limestone cladding and hard floors give real mass but nothing absorbs anything. Ceiling absorption usually does most of the work.
- Aqaba, then the drive north
The port is at the far south. We quote the sea leg and the road leg separately so the programme runs on real dates.
- Dry heat and sealed rooms
Air conditioned rooms stay closed, so sound accumulates inside and plant noise matters more than street noise.
- Institutional and assembly spaces
Large halls in stone and concrete where speech stops being intelligible long before the room sounds obviously wrong.
- Plant and HVAC
Split units and central plant with seasonal heating and cooling, condensers on roofs and balconies.
04 / Room by room
Room by room, on a typical Jordan job
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Consulting room privacy
Speech privacy between rooms, which is partition, door and ceiling void work. Limestone cladding and hard floors give real mass but nothing absorbs anything. Ceiling absorption usually does most of the work.
- Ceiling baffles and clouds, 100% PET non-woven, the panel family
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, 4 mm
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, STC 34, 8.4 kg per sq m
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Ward noise floor
Alarms, trolleys and staff conversation in hard corridors. Absorption at the ceiling. The port is at the far south. We quote the sea leg and the road leg separately so the programme runs on real dates.
- Ceiling baffles and clouds, 9 to 24 mm
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, High density polyester
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, 12.6 kg per sq m, STC on request
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Cleanability
Non shedding, non absorbent surfaces that survive a cleaning regime. Air conditioned rooms stay closed, so sound accumulates inside and plant noise matters more than street noise.
- Ceiling baffles and clouds, Made to the drawing, standard and custom
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, Felt
- 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 Jordan changes the material, not the target
Jordan is hot and dry for most of the year, with dust and high daytime surface temperatures, and that narrows the material list before acoustics is discussed.
Dust is the enemy of open-cell products. PET felt does not shed, does not hold dust in the way fabric-wrapped glass wool does, and wipes down. Timber needs a stable indoor RH or it moves.
The failure we design against here is dust ingress and thermal movement in long runs.
Where a consultant is already engaged on a Jordan project, we supply to their specification and send the test reports rather than describing them. More on working with acoustic consultants.
06 / Straight talk
The six errors that cost the most
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Fabric wrapped products in a clinical area
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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Absorption used where privacy was the requirement
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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Ceiling void left open above a partition
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 it as a generic Jordan job
Limestone cladding and hard floors give real mass but nothing absorbs anything. Ceiling absorption usually does most of the work.
05 / Route to site
What the route into Jordan actually looks like
| Ships from | Palwal, Haryana, India |
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| Arrives at | Aqaba, then road north to Amman |
| Dispatch | 4 to 7 working days |
| Freight | Sea via Aqaba, then road |
| 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 Aqaba, then road north to Amman and beyond. Air freight for samples and urgent quantities.
Questions from Jordan projects
What makes hospital and healthcare acoustics different in Jordan?
Split units and central plant with seasonal heating and cooling, condensers on roofs and balconies. Limestone cladding and hard floors give real mass but nothing absorbs anything. Ceiling absorption usually does most of the work.
Where should the budget go first on a Jordan 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 Jordan?
No. We manufacture in India and supply into Jordan. 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 Jordan site?
ships from: Palwal, Haryana, India, arrives at: Aqaba, then road north to Amman, 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 a plan and a section, get a real build-up
Send what you have. We will give you a layer by layer build-up, a bill of quantities and a date material lands, and we will flag anything in the brief that will not achieve what you want.