For projects in Portugal
Office acoustics and soundproofing in Portugal
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 with condensers in courtyards and light wells, plus seasonal heating in cold damp winters.
- 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 you are buying, and what it fixes in Portugal
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 with condensers in courtyards and light wells, plus seasonal heating in cold damp winters.
Work reaching us from Portugal is mostly hotel and apartment conversions, restaurants, offices, clinics, schools, studios.
- Conversion, not construction The structure is staying. Whatever we propose has to work inside the depth and the finishes that are already there, which rules out most thick framed systems.
- Timber floors in old buildings Footfall passes straight down through the joists. A resilient layer under the new finish does more than anything applied to the ceiling below.
- Atlantic damp Our PET felt does not absorb moisture, shed fibre or feed mould, which matters on cold external walls in a mild wet climate where mineral products sag.
- 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 Portugal.
Office and conference room acoustics Acoustic office screens
02 / The build-up
The stack, in the order it is installed
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Layer 1
Ceiling baffles and clouds
PET felt suspended from the soffit, vertically as baffles or horizontally as clouds. In Portugal, split units with condensers in courtyards and light wells, plus seasonal heating in cold damp winters.
Mixed with services. Set out around ducts, trays and lighting rather than fighting them, coordinated from your reflected ceiling plan.
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Layer 2
PET felt acoustic panels
A rigid non-woven panel pressed from 100% polyester fibre, a large part of it recycled. In Portugal, church buildings, civic auditoria and function rooms are stone volumes with very long decay.
Over a porous backing. Panel over mineral or PET backing where the room needs genuine low mid control.
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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 Portugal, school buildings are hard surfaced with high ceilings, and canteens are the loudest rooms.
Mixed finish. Plain felt where it is out of eye line, printed or grooved where it is seen.
If you are specifying for a Portugal project, we can give you a section, a BOQ and the honest limits of each layer. See how we support architects.
03 / On the ground
What decides the build-up in Portugal
- Conversion, not construction
The structure is staying. Whatever we propose has to work inside the depth and the finishes that are already there, which rules out most thick framed systems.
- Timber floors in old buildings
Footfall passes straight down through the joists. A resilient layer under the new finish does more than anything applied to the ceiling below.
- Atlantic damp
Our PET felt does not absorb moisture, shed fibre or feed mould, which matters on cold external walls in a mild wet climate where mineral products sag.
- Tourism programmes have fixed dates
Hotel openings do not move. We give honest dispatch and transit windows so the fit-out is not waiting on a container.
- Plant and HVAC
Split units with condensers in courtyards and light wells, plus seasonal heating in cold damp winters.
04 / Room by room
Space by space, for Portugal briefs
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Open plan
Distraction distance, not reverberation time. Ceiling absorption plus screens at the desk. The structure is staying. Whatever we propose has to work inside the depth and the finishes that are already there, which rules out most thick framed systems.
- 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. Footfall passes straight down through the joists. A resilient layer under the new finish does more than anything applied to the ceiling below.
- 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. Our PET felt does not absorb moisture, shed fibre or feed mould, which matters on cold external walls in a mild wet climate where mineral products sag.
- 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
What the Portugal climate rules in and rules out
Portugal 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 / Straight talk
The six errors that cost the most
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Lining every wall while leaving the ceiling bare
The ceiling is almost always the largest untreated surface, so leaving it out means paying for panels that cannot reach the target.
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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
Soundproofing fails at the gaps, not the materials. One unsealed service penetration can undo a correctly built wall.
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Treating it as a generic Portugal job
The structure is staying. Whatever we propose has to work inside the depth and the finishes that are already there, which rules out most thick framed systems.
05 / Supply
What the route into Portugal actually looks like
| Ships from | Palwal, Haryana, India |
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| Arrives at | Sines, Lisbon or Leixões, then road to site |
| Dispatch | 4 to 7 working days |
| Freight | Sea via Sines or Lisbon |
| 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 Sines, Lisbon or Leixões, then road to site. Air freight for samples and urgent quantities.
Questions from Portugal projects
What makes office acoustics and soundproofing different in Portugal?
Split units with condensers in courtyards and light wells, plus seasonal heating in cold damp winters. The structure is staying. Whatever we propose has to work inside the depth and the finishes that are already there, which rules out most thick framed systems.
Where should the budget go first on a Portugal 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 Portugal?
No. We manufacture in India and supply into Portugal. 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 Portugal site?
ships from: Palwal, Haryana, India, arrives at: Sines, Lisbon or Leixões, 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?
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
Drawings in, BOQ and a delivered date out
One drawing gets you a proper answer. Build-up, quantities, a delivered date, and an honest note on anything we think is the wrong approach.