News & Articles
October 13, 2026
We’ll be at the British Academy of Audiology Annual Conference happening on 29–30th October 2026 at the Liverpool Experience Campus, and you’ll find us on stand C02 across both days. BAA brings together hearing and balance professionals from across the UK and beyond, and the 2026 programme covers two days of CPD content, keynotes, clinical updates, and research with sessions on paediatric and adult audiology, AI in hearing healthcare, and more.
October 7, 2026
Designing an audiology room for children is not the same job as designing one for adults. The clinical requirements are broadly the same but almost every practical aspect of the space needs to be rethought around the patients using it. This blog covers the key design considerations that make a paediatric audiology room work, both for the child and for the audiologist assessing them.
September 24, 2026
One of the most common questions we’re asked is why a door doesn’t deliver its laboratory rating once it’s fitted in a building. A doorset rated at 42dB in the lab won’t measure 42dB on site, and the same is true at every performance level. Laboratory and installed performance are two different measurements, taken under different conditions, using different methods. A gap between them is expected and understanding where it comes from makes specification a great deal easier.
September 2, 2026
If you’re an architect or project manager appointed to deliver an acoustic testing facility, one of the first decisions you’ll be asked to help make is whether the space should be a full anechoic chamber or a semi-anechoic chamber. It’s a decision with significant implications for cost, structure, floor area, and what the finished facility can be used for.
August 21, 2026
Anechoic chambers are built to last. A well-designed, well-constructed facility can perform to its original specification for two or three decades, sometimes longer. But they aren’t permanent. Like any high-performance building system, they wear, they age, and eventually they need attention.
August 4, 2026
Acoustic door datasheets are full of numbers. For architects, contractors, and facilities managers who don’t design acoustics for a living, it’s not always obvious what those numbers actually mean or how to compare one product against another.
July 23, 2026
Wooden fire doors have long been the default in commercial and residential specification but at the high end of the market, they’re being asked to do far more. Timber doors are increasingly specified to combine tested fire performance with high-level acoustic control and a finish that complements the architectural intent of the space.
July 20, 2026
On paper, the modern commercial doorset has a lot to do. It needs to hold back fire and smoke, resist forced entry, control sound transmission, and often meet thermal or weather-tightness targets as well. And yet many specifications still treat these as separate problems with different doors, from different suppliers, for different rooms.
June 30, 2026
Specifying doors in commercial buildings has become a balancing act. Fire safety, acoustic performance, security, durability, and architectural intent all need to be addressed at once, and regulatory expectations have tightened sharply. Stainless steel doors are increasingly the answer and we’ve developed a range designed specifically to meet these demands.
