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Metal Stud Partitions - Hospitals.
Aspect Ceilings have extensive experience in the field of hospital
partitions and can offer advice throughout the design stages.
Requirements for hospitals combine a need to provide fire compartmentation
with an ever increasing acoustic requirement and occasionally
the provision of lead backed plasterboard for X-ray rooms.
Couple these needs with a multitude of services and support noggins
within the partition cavity and a complex project begins to emerge.
Hospital projects often require substantial management co-ordination
and detail resolution. Aspect Ceilings are well versed with these
problems.
Metal Stud Partitions - Cinemas.
Over recent years Aspect have been involved with numerous cinema
projects. The auditoria division walls to the majority of cinemas
require the use of metal stud partitions due to height, weight
and speed of construction criteria.
The high acoustic requirements of modern digital cinemas call
for partition designs which are at the limits of current acoustic
performance.
Construction is generally twin rows of metal stud. An acoustic
cross brace ties the rows together but does not detract from the
performance. Studs are then clad with multiple layers of plasterboard
and the cavity filled with quilt.
Recent projects have also called for the installation of an acoustic
isolation strips beneath the partitions in order reduce vibrations
to a minimum; further heightening performance.
Wall heights using this system are theoretically limitless, recent
projects have been built to a height in excess of 16m. Outstanding
acoustic results can be achieved using modern sound resistant
plasterboards now available. On site acoustic test results for
one recent project were recorded in excess of the 72dB laboratory
results.
Metal Stud Partitions - Structural
Studwork.
A relatively new development in partitioning. This system enables
rapid construction of the external skin or an entire building.
In the case of an external skin the system comprises of heavy
gauge studs, installed between slabs, designed to withstand wind
loading or to support floors above.
The external stud face is generally clad with ply and/or an insulated
board layer. An external layer of slab insulation or brick cladding
completes the system.
Structural studwork can also be used for the complete construction
of the frame for buildings up to 4 stories. Structural stud external
wall. St. Leonards Hospital, London
Demountable.
Plasterboard or aluminium glazed/decorative/acoustic. Used extensively
in office fit-outs for division of open plan rooms.
Although this is not a specialist area these demountable partitions
can be installed as part of a total package if required.
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