Description:
An Operable Wall is a very versatile product designed to make the most of your limited Office space. The acoustic panels will move with ease within the top track and has no unsightly floor tracks or guides etc.
Neat and clean, operable walls should complement the room. They should provide the acoustic qualities of a fixed wall and be fitted with quality seals and closures.
Our operable walls use proven tracking and trolley systems to ensure that they stack correctly and close smoothly.
It is impractical to cut out all sound transmission so a good criterion is “To limit transmission to a level that is not longer distracting”.
Aim for a sound rating in balance with the acoustics of the surrounding structure. Even with a perfect operable wall, sound will still seep through ceilings, carpets, aircon, ducts, etc.
Controlling this peripheral leakage around the operable wall (for example with baffling above ceiling) will do a lot to improve the overall performance of the installation.
Similar activities require less sound isolation than a quiet activity next to a noisy one. Amplified sound is more difficult to suppress. General background noise helps reduce distraction.
Avoid specifying far high ratings than needed. High STC operable walls are costly.
All tests have used sweep seals alone at the top and bottom panels, even for the highest STC test (demonstrating it is not necessary to adopt retractable seals to achieve the sound rating required.
Advantage:
Operable walls are specially designed and customized to fully optimize room space. Often, a room is too big to serve a particular event. Operable walls are able to effortlessly configure a room into several small ones and thus allowing more activities to be held together at the same time. The room is able to reinstate to its original layout by moving away the walls easily.
Due to this great flexibility in changing rooms’ sizes, any venues ranging from small meeting room to a large exhibition hall can be altered to suit varying numbers of users. Operable walls are popular in exhibition and convention halls, hotels, conference rooms, auditorium and training centres.
Operable walls are also able to meet many sophisticated requirements such as segmented architectural curve walls and stepped floor. And with a maximum height limit of 15 metres, Operable walls are able to fulfill many complex designs.
