For projects in Vienna
Office acoustics and soundproofing in Vienna
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. Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery in newer buildings, so duct-borne noise is the source.
- 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 / Start here
What this material is and where it earns its place in Vienna
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.
Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery in newer buildings, so duct-borne noise is the source.
Work reaching us from Vienna is mostly gründerzeit apartments, offices, studios, restaurants, clinics, schools, hotels.
- Gründerzeit rooms are tall and hard High ceilings and lime plaster hold sound for a long time. A room can look perfect and still be unusable for speech until something absorbent goes high on the wall or across the ceiling.
- Timber floors between apartments Footfall travels down through the joists into the flat below. A resilient layer under the finish does far more than anything applied to the ceiling underneath.
- Quiet hours are taken seriously Neighbour complaints here are not shrugged off. The isolation layer is what protects a home studio, a practice room or a late venue from becoming somebody else problem.
- 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 Vienna.
Office and conference room acoustics Acoustic office screens
02 / The build-up
How the layers stack, from the structure inwards
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Layer 1
Ceiling baffles and clouds
PET felt suspended from the soffit, vertically as baffles or horizontally as clouds. In Vienna, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery in newer buildings, so duct-borne noise is the source.
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
Acoustic carpet and rugs
A tile carpet with a dense polyester face on a felt backing. In Vienna, concert halls, church buildings and civic rooms are long-reverberation volumes where any intervention must be reversible.
Loose lay on tackifier. Tiles lifted individually for access under a raised floor, which is why tile beats broadloom in an office.
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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 Vienna, school and university rooms are built to a high standard with hard surfaces, and lecture spaces need intelligibility over a long tail.
Mixed finish. Plain felt where it is out of eye line, printed or grooved where it is seen.
We would rather argue about the build-up at design stage than on site. See how we support architects.
03 / Local conditions
The Vienna conditions that change the answer
- Gründerzeit rooms are tall and hard
High ceilings and lime plaster hold sound for a long time. A room can look perfect and still be unusable for speech until something absorbent goes high on the wall or across the ceiling.
- Timber floors between apartments
Footfall travels down through the joists into the flat below. A resilient layer under the finish does far more than anything applied to the ceiling underneath.
- Quiet hours are taken seriously
Neighbour complaints here are not shrugged off. The isolation layer is what protects a home studio, a practice room or a late venue from becoming somebody else problem.
- Trams and the Ring
Ground level trams and traffic put low frequency into the structure. Panels on a wall will not touch it, and we will say so rather than sell them.
- Plant and HVAC
Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery in newer buildings, so duct-borne noise is the source.
04 / Room by room
What each space in a Vienna project needs
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Open plan
Distraction distance, not reverberation time. Ceiling absorption plus screens at the desk. High ceilings and lime plaster hold sound for a long time. A room can look perfect and still be unusable for speech until something absorbent goes high on the wall or across the ceiling.
- 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
- 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 travels down through the joists into the flat below. A resilient layer under the finish does far more than anything applied to the ceiling underneath.
- 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
- 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. Neighbour complaints here are not shrugged off. The isolation layer is what protects a home studio, a practice room or a late venue from becoming somebody else problem.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 4 to 24 mm
- Acoustic panels, ASTM C423
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, 5 x 1.2 m, 6 sq m per roll
If the visual is fixed and the room still has to perform, that is a solvable problem and a conversation worth having early. See how we work with interior designers.
04 / Climate
Durability in Vienna, before acoustics is discussed
Vienna is cool and damp, with long heating seasons and cold external walls, and that narrows the material list before acoustics is discussed.
Cold wall build-ups and long heating seasons mean interstitial condensation is a real risk behind any lining. PET felt is unaffected by damp air and will not feed mould where a fabric-faced mineral product would.
The failure we design against here is condensation behind linings in older, poorly insulated stock.
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 / Before you buy
Where this kind of project usually fails
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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
Privacy is a transmission problem. Absorption makes the room sound nicer and does not stop anyone hearing through the wall.
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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 Vienna job
High ceilings and lime plaster hold sound for a long time. A room can look perfect and still be unusable for speech until something absorbent goes high on the wall or across the ceiling.
05 / Getting it there
Supply into Vienna, start to site
| Ships from | Palwal, Haryana, India |
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| Arrives at | Koper or Hamburg, then rail and road into Vienna |
| Dispatch | 4 to 7 working days |
| Freight | Sea via Koper or Hamburg |
| 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 Koper or Hamburg, then rail and road into Vienna. Air freight for samples and urgent quantities.
Questions from Vienna projects
What makes office acoustics and soundproofing different in Vienna?
Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery in newer buildings, so duct-borne noise is the source. High ceilings and lime plaster hold sound for a long time. A room can look perfect and still be unusable for speech until something absorbent goes high on the wall or across the ceiling.
Where should the budget go first on a Vienna 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 Vienna?
No. We manufacture in India and supply into Vienna. 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 Vienna site?
ships from: Palwal, Haryana, India, arrives at: Koper or Hamburg, then rail and road into Vienna, 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.