In childcare facilities and infant schools, the noise of children is welcome, but its reverberation must be controlled to prevent it getting out of hand and becoming uncomfortable for the children themselves and staff. In fact, sound absorption and levelling should create quiet and even silence, for example in the areas where children sleep. In France, these facilities for young children are subject to the strictest regulations. The variety and quality of the cladding, panels and accessories that make up Texaa’s offering are able to provide solutions for these challenges, while meeting architectural and decorative requirements set at the design stage or when retrofitting.
In schools and universities, the different areas require specific acoustic treatments depending on their role. A distinction can be made between classrooms, lecture halls and areas where practical activities are pursued, and areas where people get together socially or eat, or move from one place to another. In the former, regardless of the occupants’ age, the priority is the clarity of the spoken word. In the latter, what obviously counts is controlling background noise, and sometimes the ability to create private sub-areas with tailor-made furniture, where people can work or use the telephone without being bothered. Texaa provides solutions for these very varied acoustic challenges, while enhancing the architectural impact with their shapes and colours. Like in any public area, the durability and ease of cleaning of Texaa’s products is also an advantage.
Besides the acoustic challenges that are partly similar in any place where large numbers of people live together, special needs schools, depending on their vocation, present specific acoustic demands that need to be addressed: for example, creating privacy in areas that receive people, or a soothing atmosphere in a treatment room. The special sensitivity of the people accommodated in these centres is of course another aspect to be taken into account in the designers’ choices amongst the solutions offered by Texaa.
