Category: Leisure

The Project

SCS North contacted Pacy and Wheatley to help with the design and delivery of an acoustic plaster solution, to manage the new shopping centres acoustic reverberation issues. The new shopping centre within the Victoria Quarter in Leeds, where numerous top brand fashion designers and shops will be residents, was being constructed joining onto the brand new John Lewis store. The requirement was for a class A solution to ensure the arcade had the ambient comfort and feeling of relaxation through the shopping experience.

The Solution

Pacy and Wheatley were asked for a class A solution to the walls of the arcade malls which curves around the contours of the design. Whilst having central areas with bullnose curved features around glazed areas, this involved special panels with relief cuts to the rear to form the curves around the substrates. The complex design of the walls had many areas that required detailing. Reverberation was reduced to a good level and an acoustically healthy environment for all users of the mall whether dinning or shopping for those top brands, all in all a comfortable environment has been created as well as stunning architecture. Complex dimple areas to the south mall were very complex however overcome by the team working with SCS and SRM. The project was completed on time and to budget for the client and he has offered comments below in a testimonial.

Testimonial

“A massive Thankyou needs to go out to you and all your team involved as it has not been an easy project with the delays incurred to our start and so many other trades working alongside us at the same time and they have managed to overcome any problems on site and produced an excellent job at the end of it all” – Mr Darren Friend, Commercial Director.

The Project

Pacy & Wheatley are proud to present our recent hotel acoustics project for Park Plaza County Hall, London. This upscale hotel was being refitted to extend their dining and bar facilities and required a superior acoustic plaster solution to allow residing customers to fully relax in an acoustically healthy environment.

The Solution

We were successful with our quotation and were appointed to install our Rockfon Mono acoustic product, which delivers class A sound absorption. This product is perfect for the dining facilities in this prestigious hotel, as it heavily reduces reverberation and echo in busy areas. The Rockfon Mono acoustic plaster was installed in both the dining area and bar, to provide customers with the comfort and relaxation in a reverberation controlled ambience.

With over twenty years’ experience, we have a wealth of knowledge in the hotel acoustics solutions sector. Our skilled and attentive team can integrate any service in both commercial and residential properties, to an impeccably high standard. We’re delighted with this first-class installation, much to our client’s satisfaction.

The Project

Specialist Acoustic Plaster Contractors, Pacy & Wheatley Acoustics, are delighted to have completed the St Lawrence House project in Soho, London. St Lawrence House was a redevelopment scheme that would create new restaurant facilities along with retail areas to the ground floor and 76,400m2 of office space. The building would have a large reception area, with hard finishes and would requiredsome absorption to be created to take away the unwanted reverberation.

The Solution

Pacy and Wheatley Acoustics quoted to install their Rockfon Mono Acoustic product which offers a 5 star absorption class, which would be perfect for the project. The rear wall had brackets that set a fine type arrangement to the wall and therefore protected the low level installation. Access panels where placed along the area to allow access to services, which ran along the full length of the wall.

We had to ensure the brackets had a perfect line of the finished material. This process was very labour intensive that required masking. However, a perfect line finish was created and the product created the reverberation control required for the space.

Testimonial

“The operatives are a credit to Pacy and Wheatley, great job well done” – Mr Bob Goodey, Project Manager.

The Project

Acoustic Plaster Specialist Pacy & Wheatley Acoustics are delighted to have completed this project in Sloane Squared, Central London. This high class central London restaurant has the vision to install acoustic control, making diners more comfortable to enjoy the dining experience. They wanted an Acoustic solution to rid the environment of unwanted reverberation at busy periods requiring absorption control.

The Solution

Installing Rockfon Mono Acoustic Plaster System with NEW elegant render, a class-A absorption control system was perfect for the space involved. This involved abutting and surrounding bulkheads with the new smooth render. The new acoustic installation was installed on time in a busy fit out program, and on budget.

The Project

Pacy and Wheatley Acoustics installed a Specialist Acoustic Plaster System at a leisure centre in Chelmsford.

Chelmsford city council worked with Kier to provide a new facility within the city named Riverside Ice & Leisure Centre. The centre, which can be found along Victoria Road in the heart of Chelmsford and was opened in 2019 by The Duke of Kent.

The centre has two swimming pools, a sport and fitness centre, a café, a reception area and an ice rink. A need was a certainty for acoustic and reverberation control within the new bright main entrance to ensure comfort whilst within the facility and to create a welcoming and comfortable feeling from the outset.

The Solution

Working With Central Essex Interiors and Kier the Pacy and Wheatley acoustic team installed our Rockfon Mono acoustic product offering a Class A absorption to the foyer area working with a curved feature ceiling and large 600 diameter feature lighting certainly brightened up the area with the light reflection on the mono product being so high as 87%

The product has ensured a great deal of absorption has been placed to ensure any unwanted ambient noise and reverberation has minimised to control sound levels in the space.

The Project

Stocks Golf club is situated within the village of Aldbury and surrounded by natural beauty. The newly built clubhouse by Priory Gate Construction was designed to fit into this countryside location. The course is an 18 hole championship course set in a beautiful valley and is a par 73 and is over 6800 yards.The clubhouse houses a large bar area and state of the art facilities and offers superb function rooms to which the architect detected there would be some acoustic absorption required to ensure the comfort of the patrons and form the relaxing space which is required after a hard round.

The Solution

Pacy and Wheatley were commissioned by ADAM Architecture to provide our 32mm ambient acoustic plaster system to the main bar and dining room areas to control the reverberation issues and form some sound absorption. The main bar area with its old oak beams design created perfect spaces for the absorption to be placed approximately 80m2 of the product was installed to the areas with great results. The product was coloured to a pastel shade and with full liaison with Priory Gates site team the project was completed on time and on budget and the spaces now enjoy calming acoustic properties that can be enjoyed by each and every visitor, assuming they have had a good round!

The Project

The Bloomsbury Theatre, London, opened in 1968, and has since showcased the best of music, dance and theatre, as well as a whole host of other performances within the entertainment industry. Quality acoustic control is a must for coherent performance, ensuring the customers enjoy each performance to its maximum, creating the perfect ambience for the shows. Our team supplied a specialist acoustic plaster installation to the theatre to help control sound and reverberation.

The theatre is part of one of the world’s leading universities, the UCL (University College London), which used to have 70 seats. Now, following a large renovation, the theatre has over 500 luxurious seats.

The Solution

Pacy & Wheatley Acoustics supplied a quotation to install our class A absorption classification Rockfon Mono Acoustic product. This was an ideal solution for the project, and was installed to the rear of the theatre at high levels, in specialist colour, black.

Part of the enjoyment of attending the Bloomsburg Theatre is the arrival, and excitement prior to the performance. Specific islands were built in situ within the entrance area of the theatre to ensure sound is controlled and to prevent reverberation through the main walkway areas.

This was a complex area, as it is set within the stairway of the main entrance. Multiple trades requiring access and egress made this a complex project.

The solution works perfectly. The sound is controlled as required, with various other acoustic products involved to enhance the experience.

The Project

Pacy And Wheatley Acoustics were commissioned by London Architects Denton Corker Marshall to provide an Ambient Acoustic Plaster Solution for prestigious restaurant Dinner, by Heston Blumenthal, within the newly refurbished Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Knightsbridge.

Three ceiling areas were to be treated in the main dining area, private dining and Chef’s Table. Each had a different design and ambient requirement. The main dining room had many small coffer areas which were timber moulded. A tight programme period would compound the installation.

The Solution

The small coffer areas in the main dining room required a significant amount of hand finishing as the sanding machinery was too large. The pigmented plaster was carefully chosen to match the architect’s colour specification delivering and enhanced visual perspective. The accomplished ambient noise reduction provides a relaxed environment for the diners.
Other trades works were behind programme; naturally, our acoustic installation teams worked out of hours to achieve the programme deadline. We also achieved zero defects.

The Project

Pacy and Wheatley Acoustics installed their Ambient Acoustic Plaster solution to the fashionable “Bar & Kitchen” is the latest in the Benugo chain of restaurants in 2011. located close to Liverpool Street station on Bishopsgate, London the clever design encompasses part of the Bishopsgate Institute exterior. The architect, Path Design, wished for an afternoon and evening ambience of comfort and calm rather than the busy hustle and bustle of the London streets. Within the modern venue of laminated beams, highlighted and large glazed areas, minimal furnishings and hard surface finishes, a sound insulation solution to address the reverberation became a requirement.

The Solution

Path Design liaised with main contractor Betacroft who subsequently commissioned Pacy and Wheatley Acoustics to consult and install 60m2 of the 32mm Terraco Ambient Acoustic Plaster System to the ceiling area to absorb the unwanted noise. The integration of recessed light fittings and air conditioning ventilation was simply incorporated within the installation without compromise to the noise control project or to the quality of finished surfaces required, The exceptional venue, now coupled with our acoustic control system (sound insulation), maintained the atmospherics and buzz, both essential for the lively modern venue. The project was completed on time and on budget.