Services  ·  Healthcare

Quiet where it matters

Hospitals, clinics and care facilities where a considered soundscape supports recovery and wellbeing.

A concrete wall with geometric light and shadow
Photograph by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash

What the sector needs

Healthcare spaces ask a lot of their acoustics. Patients need to sleep, conversations need to stay private and critical spaces need quiet, while alarms, people and the plant that keeps the building alive continue around them. Good design brings those competing needs into balance. Standards and guidelines set the expectations, but the detail determines whether they are met.

Patient baysConsult RoomExternal plantScreeningReverberation controlSound insulating partitions
Managing sound across a hospital.

Our capabilities include

  • Healthcare acoustic design and modelling
  • Patient room and ward acoustic design
  • Speech privacy and confidential space design
  • Internal wall, floor and façade sound insulation design
  • Building services noise and vibration control
  • Specialist and sensitive space acoustic design
  • Reverberation control
  • Environmental and transport noise assessment
  • Helicopter noise assessment
  • Acoustic finishes and material selection
  • Acoustic input to planning, layouts and construction detailing
  • Site testing, commissioning and performance verification
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