For projects in Morocco
School and classroom acoustics in Morocco
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. School buildings are hard surfaced with high ceilings and courtyards that amplify break time noise.
- 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
What you are buying, and what it fixes in Morocco
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.
School buildings are hard surfaced with high ceilings and courtyards that amplify break time noise.
Work reaching us from Morocco is mostly manufacturing plants, hotels and riads, offices, restaurants, schools, hospitals.
- Two very different markets Automotive and component plants need enclosure and mass. Hospitality in older buildings needs shallow internal work. We quote them differently.
- Traditional buildings, hard surfaces Tile, stone and plaster in tall rooms hold sound for a long time, and the structure usually cannot be altered.
- Tanger Med is a major hub Frequent sailings and good onward connections make this one of the easier African routes to plan around.
- 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 Morocco.
02 / The build-up
What goes where, from the structure in
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Layer 1
Wood wool acoustic panels
Wood fibre bound into a rigid board with an open texture. In Morocco, split units with condensers in courtyards and light wells, running hard through long summers.
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
Ceiling baffles and clouds
PET felt suspended from the soffit, vertically as baffles or horizontally as clouds. In Morocco, mosques and civic halls are tall volumes in masonry and tile with long decay times.
Vertical baffles. Hung on edge in rows. Both faces absorb, so coverage figures based on plan area understate them.
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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 Morocco, school buildings are hard surfaced 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 Morocco practice, the useful thing is a detail you can put in a drawing set, not a brochure. See how we support architects.
03 / Local conditions
The Morocco conditions that change the answer
- Two very different markets
Automotive and component plants need enclosure and mass. Hospitality in older buildings needs shallow internal work. We quote them differently.
- Traditional buildings, hard surfaces
Tile, stone and plaster in tall rooms hold sound for a long time, and the structure usually cannot be altered.
- Tanger Med is a major hub
Frequent sailings and good onward connections make this one of the easier African routes to plan around.
- Hot and dry inland, humid on the coast
PET felt is stable in both and does not sag, shed fibre or hold moisture.
- Assembly and performance rooms
Mosques and civic halls are tall volumes in masonry and tile with long decay times.
- School and campus buildings
School buildings are hard surfaced with high ceilings and courtyards that amplify break time noise.
04 / Room by room
What each space in a Morocco project needs
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Classroom RT
A number, set against room volume, achieved mostly at the ceiling. Automotive and component plants need enclosure and mass. Hospitality in older buildings needs shallow internal work. We quote them differently.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 100% PET non-woven, no added binder
- Ceiling baffles and clouds, 9 to 24 mm
- 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. Tile, stone and plaster in tall rooms hold sound for a long time, and the structure usually cannot be altered.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 9, 12, 18 and 24 mm standard, tolerance plus or minus 5 percent
- Ceiling baffles and clouds, Made to the drawing, standard and custom
- 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. Frequent sailings and good onward connections make this one of the easier African routes to plan around.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 4 to 24 mm
- Ceiling baffles and clouds, Both faces work, which is why suspended area outperforms the same area laid flat
- 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 / Climate and durability
Durability in Morocco, before acoustics is discussed
Morocco 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 / Worth knowing
What we watch go wrong on jobs like this
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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
It sounds like a small detail until the room is finished and the complaint arrives.
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Choosing a product that cannot take a football
Noise with a source is fixed at the source. Treating the receiving room is the expensive way to get a small result.
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Treating it as a generic Morocco job
Automotive and component plants need enclosure and mass. Hospitality in older buildings needs shallow internal work. We quote them differently.
05 / Getting it there
What the route into Morocco actually looks like
| Ships from | Palwal, Haryana, India |
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| Arrives at | Tanger Med or Casablanca, then road to site |
| Dispatch | 4 to 7 working days |
| Freight | Sea via Tanger Med |
| 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 Tanger Med or Casablanca, then road to site. Air freight for samples and urgent quantities.
Questions from Morocco projects
What makes school and classroom acoustics different in Morocco?
School buildings are hard surfaced with high ceilings and courtyards that amplify break time noise. Automotive and component plants need enclosure and mass. Hospitality in older buildings needs shallow internal work. We quote them differently.
Where should the budget go first on a Morocco 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 Morocco?
No. We manufacture in India and supply into Morocco. 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 Morocco site?
ships from: Palwal, Haryana, India, arrives at: Tanger Med or Casablanca, 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
Drawings in, BOQ and a delivered date out
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.