Armstrong Ceiling & Wall Solutions announces new FELTWorks™ Blades, which enable architects and designers to redefine the ceiling plane with a soft, linear visual that adds quiet and warmth to interior spaces. Made from up to 50 percent post-consumer recycled PET fibers, panels absorb up to 70 percent of the sound that strikes them, states the company.
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Kirei is pleased to debut EchoCloud Diamond and EchoPanel Diamond Tiles, two of the newest additions to the company’s EchoPanel series—a collection of decorative, functional, and acoustic products that include panels, systems, tiles, and partitions.
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The most common complaint of occupants in open or exposed structure design is noise. Armstrong Ceiling & Wall Solutions says smooth textured Lyra PB Direct-Apply and InvisAcoustics panels both offer architects, designers, and owners a cost effective way to reduce unwanted sound in exposed structure spaces, including both new construction and retrofit applications.
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Ted Moudis Associates has released Project X: A Chicago Story, which examines changes in Chicago workplace design over the past ten years and focuses on two main ideas – how the way we work has changed the way space is designed, and how those changes have affected construction and furniture costs.
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FabriTRAK® Systems Inc today launched Autem™– a unique sound control acoustic solution for ceilings. Autem™ is a lightweight, easy-to-install polyester product available in 2″ and 1″ thicknesses in black, white and gray. Autem™ offer NRC ratings (2″ NRC .90) and provides high R ratings for insulation.
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Deanna Hayko, Partner, iN STUDIO, explains “Aercoustics’ work is revolutionizing the sound engineering industry, and we wanted to make sure their office was as innovative and creative as they are. We focused on displaying Aercoustics’ progressive culture and creating an environment to fully equip the team for what they do best – making our spaces sound terrific.”
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With the introduction of DESIGNFlex™ for Formations™ Acoustical Clouds, Armstrong Ceiling Solutions is offering architects and designers a new angle for incorporating acoustics into their ceiling designs. DESIGNFlex for Formations Clouds are now available in nine standard DESIGNFlex patterns in a choice of colors.
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ACOUSTIBuilt panels offer a smooth, non-directional, monolithic visual for the seamless appearance of a drywall ceiling but also effective acoustical performance in a space. The new ceiling is part of the Armstrong® Total Acoustics® portfolio, offering the combination of sound absorption and sound blocking in one panel. The company says the installed system achieves a Noise Reduction Coefficient (NRC) of up to 0.70, indicating it absorbs up to 70% of the sound that strikes it, and also has an extremely high Ceiling Attenuation Class (CAC) up to 48, indicating its ability to ensure speech privacy by preventing sound from entering adjacent spaces.
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CertainTeed recently launched an expanded line of baffles and a simplified line of clouds to address specifiers’ design and acoustic challenges with large open plenum spaces. In order to provide architects and designers with more design freedom and flexibility, CertainTeed has added two new shapes to its existing line of Ecophon Solo rectangular baffles: Wave and Zig Zag. The undulating waves and cutting-edge zig zag patterns provide a unique and dynamic visual for contemporary spaces.
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GeoDesign and GeoDesign Ridge panels are cut to standard geometric shapes — hexagon, trapezoid, rhombus and polygon — up to 4’ x 4’ across. The company states they can also be cut to a custom shape that fits a specific design. According to G&S Acoustics, these sound-absorbing panels have a six to seven pcf fiberglass core that provides a NRC sound absorption range of .55 up to .85, based on standard acoustically transparent fabric.
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Architects design pavilion with red petal facade. Overlapping shingles are composed of Alucobond Spectra Red tiles featuring a Lumiflon FEVE fluoropolymer resin topcoat. Photo credit: Keith Panel Systems
Tubelite Inc.’s Therml=Block® TU24650 Series storefront system features aluminum framing with a dual pocket poured-and-debridged thermal break. Even in extreme cold climates, TU24650 dual thermally broken storefront improves U-Factors by 36 percent and increases CRF by 30 percent over a single poured-and-debridged pocket when using the same size and type of insulated glass. Optimizing thermal performance helps lower the load on HVAC systems and reduce associated energy costs, while maintaining a comfortable interior temperature. Reducing condensation can improve a building’s appearance and sanitation, and minimize damage to adjacent materials. The framing also can be specified in high recycled-content aluminum composition.
