Architect and Builder January/February 2016 | Page 58
Armstrong Launches its Latest
Guide to Floating Ceilings
A dynamic guide for flexible, acoustic canopies and baffles has been
published by Armstrong.
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xpert advice on the almost endless
range of dramatic design and acoustic
possibilities that can be achieved with
canopies and baffles, including Optima
Baffles Curves, the first curved mineral
baffles in the industry, is contained within a
new ceilings brochure from Armstrong.
Floating ceilings inspire great spaces by
introducing new shapes and add depth, scale
and rhythm to internal areas, creating a
contemporary aesthetic for modern building
designers in the transport, education,
commercial and retail sectors.
The 56-page A4 guide also explains that
canopies and baffles can help create a more
sustainable interior, contributing to improved
indoor air quality and acoustics, and supporting
high-mass, low-energy construction.
All this in a peerless variety of colours,
effects including wood, and materials
including mineral and metal, as well as
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shapes including square, rectangular,
circular, concave, convex and curved.
Floating ceilings are also ideal for the easy
integration of building services such as
lighting and cooling and heating elements.
Floating ceilings are capable of providing
greater acoustic sound absorption than
continuous ones because all their faces and
edges are exposed, and because they are
easily relocatable are as suitable for retrofit
and refurbishment as they are for new-build.
In addition, specially-engineered surfaces
reflect up to 87% of light to improve
illumination, making spaces brighter and
more comfortable and cutting energy bills.
They are additionally sustainable in that they
are manufactured from a high degree of
recycled material and are also recyclable.
The brochure also explains how product
variety is backed by service support including
consultations with specifiers or main
contractors, supply of BIM and production
of CAD drawings bespoke to the project
which are then used to engineer a production
schedule and logistics plan, and on-site
guidance and post-installation review
if required.
Armstrong’s new floating ceilings
brochure is available to download from
www.armstrong-ceilings.co.za and via the
Armstrong Ceiling Systems App available
from both the Apple store as well as the
Google Play store, or by clicking on one of
the links below with your mobile device:
www.armstrong.com/CeilingDownloads-Apple
www.armstrong.com/CeilingDownloads-Android
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