Professional space
Rooms where every word carries — in the room and on the call.
Boardrooms and meeting rooms designed so speech stays clear, microphones behave and confidential conversations stay inside.
The brief
What a conference room has to get right
Meeting rooms fail acoustically in two directions at once: people in the room strain to follow each other, and people on the call hear a hollow, echoing version of the meeting. Both come from the same cause — hard glass, plasterboard and table surfaces with nothing to control the reflections.
We design the room so speech decays quickly enough to stay intelligible, the background noise is low enough not to mask it, and the walls hold confidential conversations in.
- 01Clear speech at every seat
- 02Microphones that pick up voices, not the room
- 03Quiet air-conditioning and equipment
- 04Privacy from corridors and neighbouring rooms
- 05Treatment that suits a corporate interior
How we engineer it
Services involved
Acoustic design
Reverberation and reflection control tuned for speech rather than music.
Acoustic treatment
Ceiling and wall treatment detailed to suit a corporate interior.
Sound isolation
Walls, doors and glazing designed for speech privacy.
AV integration
Microphones, displays and conferencing equipment matched to the room.
How we work
From brief to verified result.
- 01
Brief
Goals, room, budget and constraints. Deliverable: Scope note.
- 02
Measure
Site survey and baseline readings. Deliverable: Survey.
- 03
Model
Predict modes, reverberation and coverage. Deliverable: Model report.
- 04
Design
Treatment, isolation and speaker layout. Deliverable: Drawings.
- 05
Build
Site coordination and inspection. Deliverable: Site checks.
- 06
Calibrate
The system tuned to the room. Deliverable: Settings file.
- 07
Verify
Measure again against targets. Deliverable: Verification report.
Questions
Common questions
Why do people on the call say our room sounds echoey?
Conference microphones pick up the room as well as the talker. In a reflective room the microphone hears the voice several times — directly, then off the table, glass and ceiling — which sounds hollow at the far end. Controlling those reflections fixes it more reliably than changing microphones.
Can you treat a room without changing how it looks?
Usually. Ceiling treatment carries much of the work and can be integrated into the ceiling design, and wall absorption can sit behind fabric, timber or perforated finishes. We coordinate with your interior designer so the treatment reads as part of the room.
How do we stop conversations being overheard outside?
That's sound isolation: the wall build-up, how it meets the slab above the ceiling, the door and seals, and any glazing. Most meeting-room privacy problems come from walls that stop at the false ceiling, or from door gaps.
Is background noise really a problem?
It is one of the most common causes of poor intelligibility. Air-conditioning, projectors and equipment fans raise the level that speech has to compete with, and the effect is worst for anyone at the far end of the table or on the call.
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