For projects in Jordan
Office acoustics and soundproofing in Jordan
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. Split units and central plant with seasonal heating and cooling, condensers on roofs and balconies.
- 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 / The product
What this is, and what it changes in a Jordan room
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.
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.
- 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 Jordan.
Office and conference room acoustics Acoustic office screens
02 / The build-up
The build-up, layer by layer
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Layer 1
Ceiling baffles and clouds
PET felt suspended from the soffit, vertically as baffles or horizontally as clouds. In Jordan, split units and central plant with seasonal heating and cooling, condensers on roofs and balconies.
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 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, mosques, churches and civic halls are stone volumes with very long reverberation.
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 Jordan, school and university buildings are stone and concrete with high ceilings and long corridors that carry every sound.
Floor, floating. Membrane under a resilient layer and a floating deck, so impact energy is broken before it reaches the slab.
If you are specifying for a Jordan project, we can give you a section, a BOQ and the honest limits of each layer. See how we support architects.
03 / Local conditions
The Jordan conditions that change the answer
- 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
What each space in a Jordan project needs
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Open plan
Distraction distance, not reverberation time. Ceiling absorption plus screens at the desk. Limestone cladding and hard floors give real mass but nothing absorbs anything. Ceiling absorption usually does most of the work.
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, 500 x 500 mm
- Acoustic panels, 1800 x 900 mm, image printed into the felt rather than onto a facing
- 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. The port is at the far south. We quote the sea leg and the road leg separately so the programme runs on real dates.
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, 4 mm
- Acoustic panels, Cut pattern in PET felt, adds visual rhythm without changing the absorber
- 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. Air conditioned rooms stay closed, so sound accumulates inside and plant noise matters more than street noise.
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, High density polyester
- Acoustic panels, ASTM C423
- 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
Durability in Jordan, before acoustics is discussed
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.
Consultants get the raw data, not a sales sheet. That is the whole of our side of the job, and it is set out under working with acoustic consultants.
06 / Worth knowing
The six errors that cost the most
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Lining every wall while leaving the ceiling bare
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 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 Jordan job
Limestone cladding and hard floors give real mass but nothing absorbs anything. Ceiling absorption usually does most of the work.
05 / Supply
How material reaches a Jordan site
| 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 office acoustics and soundproofing 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?
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 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?
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
Tell us the room, we will tell you the 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.