Bespoke acoustic ceiling baffles for UK tech company
Project Information
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Products used: EchoPanel® 24mm
Designer: tp bennett
Installer: The Collective
Date: 2022
Photography: Hufton & Crow
In one of the UK’s largest workplace improvement developments, tp bennet designed BT Group’s new sustainable, future-proof workplace. Their Three Snowhill site is now the largest single office fit-out for an occupier in Birmingham, coming in at a staggering 282 000 sq ft.
tp bennet pride themselves in their sustainable approach to architectural design, ensuring to be well-researched and responsible in the materials they select. To create a welcoming environment of sustainably sourced materials, it’s no surprise that EchoPanel 24mm made the list. Through our UK partner, The Collective, various custom ceiling baffles were created using the acoustic panels to deliver stylish sound absorption in neutral colours such as grey, black and vanilla. Integrating also with various forms of lighting. These stunning ceiling features serve the occupants by being sound absorbers, artistic creations and sustainably sourced.
The BT Group workspace is BREEAM Excellent rated. BREEAM assessments measure performance against set benchmarks to determine a buildings design, construction and usage to measure its sustainability performance. EchoPanel® achieves such rigorous and sought after environmental credentials including Global GreenTag with GreenRate level A and a Platinum Product Health Declaration. EchoPanel®’s Environmental Product Declaration, is recognised by sustainability rating schemes across the globe including BREEM (UK) Green Star (Australia), LEED (US) and Green Globes (US & Canada). EchoPanel® is a low VOC product and Red List Free.
The new premises is the first strategic hub location of four, as part of BT’s ‘The Better Workplace Programme’. With a capacity for 3 500 employees, it has been designed to cater for the diverse working options for its people. This includes a series of agile spaces and social hubs on every floor, including coworking on the ground floor, that are designed to bring colleagues together and encourage cross-collaboration across the business, while still accommodating focused individual work. The workplace has been specifically designed to encourage its occupants to move around the building and avoids isolating any one area.