Reduce Office Noise

DBF Melbourne Team • July 12, 2024

Noise in working environments has become a big deal

This can be noise that you make as part of your usual business activity and breaks out into your ‘quite zones’ inside your business, it can be noise that originates from outside and effects your business performance. Whatever your business you need to think about ‘noise management’.


Research has found that more than half of the employees surveyed consider their offices too noisy. 


Whichever direction you wish to reduce noise transference it will boil down to two approaches. You either reduce the decibel level (dB) at the source of the noise or you shield against it. 


This is where expertise enters. You need to be able to define the noise levels in dB’s in order that you can ‘design out’ or substantially reduce its deteriorating effects. 


Noise barriers are not pretty! But they can be concealed so that they disappear or they can be made a bold feature of the design. 


All layers of government are encouraging employers noise management as well as to lower the carbon impact of their business, increase thermal insulation, raise energy ratings and reduce energy usage. Fire protection is also a key element of any premises and it must be in place to operate any business in Australia. 


This all comes as a substantial cost to employers. 


If you are planning a refurbishment, a fit out from a shell or a new build why not play it smart and combine all these features from the get-go? 


All openings can be a passage for noise and window and door specifications are crucial as is how well they are sealed around their external edges. Overall, everything must be looked at as a whole not in a series of parts, each with separate solutions.


By bringing in an all-encompassing answer you get the best of both worlds. This can all be hidden within walls and roof or can be a feature and sprayed and polished to look sophisticated and stunning whilst doing an essential job.


Fitzpatrick Team are well versed in in all manner of noise reduction, thermal insulation and fire barriers and suppression systems.

Give Mark a call to discuss your project.

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