Noise distraction is more than a nuisance—it’s a “productivity tax” on your team. As the Australian workforce returns to the office, discover why integrating acoustic performance into your architectural design is no longer an add-on, but a strategic necessity for focus, wellbeing, and long-term performance.
Designing with Country is an approach to design and planning that “recognises the unique systems of knowledge and ways of being of Aboriginal people”. Projects using this design approach are aiming to integrate indigenous voices as the foundation and by doing so bring a stronger connection between culture, the land and its inhabitants.
We are most frequently asked this question during Sports Centre projects where decorative acoustic panels are being used on courts for ball-sports; where the panels are at risk of being directly hit by balls.
MDF is short for Medium Density Fibreboard, and has been used for furniture and construction since 1966. MDF has three advantages over architectural perforated metal panels as well as other wood products.
Most of the new provisions of NCC 2022 took effect on 1 May 2023 in all states and territories across Australia. NCC 2022 uses a new structure and clause referencing system to make it more web accessible.