Open-Plan Workspaces

Everyday sounds, conversations, phone calls, footsteps, equipment, and outdoor noise, can disrupt workplaces, causing echoes and reducing privacy. Effective acoustic treatment improves focus, productivity, and wellbeing. FeltVibe® supports different office layouts with ceiling, wall, and divider solutions.

Offices

These smaller spaces cause soundwaves to quickly bounce between walls, creating a “ping pong” effect known as floating echoes. To fix this, acoustic panels should be used on the walls to absorb sound, along with ceiling panels to address noise from above.

Restaurants

Kitchen equipment, cutlery, and lively conversations often create acoustic discomfort. Without treatment, people start speaking louder to be heard, raising the overall noise level and turning the space into constant background chao, tiring and stressful.

This is known as the Lombard effect (often associated with the “cocktail party” effect). Acoustic wall coverings help reduce harsh high frequencies while protecting and enhancing walls. For best comfort, combine them with ceiling panels above seating areas to control the main sound reflections and balance mid- to low-frequency noise from speech.

Co-Working or Seminar Areas

As in meeting rooms, when sound absorption is insufficient, acoustic problems can increase. To improve comfort, use acoustic wall coverings and suspend panels above worktables, positioned close to users. In larger spaces, add wall-mounted acoustic panels to treat sound more effectively.

Education & Classrooms

Schools and public buildings should limit indoor noise through good insulation (from outside and between rooms) and by controlling building equipment noise. Use acoustic ceiling panels and wall panels to improve speech clarity. In larger rooms or amphitheaters, durable acoustic wallcoverings reduce high-frequency reflections and protect walls; pair them with ceiling panels near sound sources to better control mid and low frequencies from speech.

Multi-Function Rooms

These are spaces where students gather for cultural events, sports activities, or celebrations. They are usually large and made of hard, echo-prone materials, which increase reverberation time. To reduce noise pollution, suspended acoustic panels are an effective solution.

They help control sound levels and improve the room’s usability by managing noise and echoes.

Function and Entertainment Areas

In large event spaces, the key challenge is controlling both steady background noise and sudden impact sounds. The goal isn’t total silence, it’s preventing sound from bouncing around the room and building up. People should be able to communicate clearly without raising their voices, creating comfortable listening conditions for both participants and the audience.