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Technical To help specifiers understand the performance of wall mounted acoustic absorbers, FIS has published a new technical note, ‘Specifying Acoustic Absorbers where they will be installed against a wall’. FIS LAUNCHES TECHNICAL NOTE ON SPECIFYING ACOUSTIC ABSORBERS 30 www.thefis.org T HE sound quality of a room often doesn’t need a specialist to tell you that something is wrong. Whether it is an office, café or community space, it can sound like being in an unfurnished room and, as people arrive, it can become louder and louder for occupants. It is an issue that can be addressed by reducing reverberation caused by hard surfaces through the installation of acoustic absorbers on the walls. Our new guidance will help specifiers understand the acoustic and fire performance of wall mounted acoustic absorbers, acoustics and room acoustics, reverberation and absorption, conformity marking and importantly, their installation. This new technical note is aimed at anyone wanting to address noisy spaces by installing acoustic absorbers on the walls to reduce reverberation and it provides information on how products are tested, what the results mean, what fire performance needs to be considered and what to look for in terms of how they should be installed so that they perform correctly. Iain McIlwee, Chief Executive of FIS, said: “The positioning and installation of the absorbers can all have a big impact on the effect the absorbers will have, so it is important for specifiers to have all the information during the crucial specification stage.” The technical note is available to download at www.thefis.org/knowledge- hub/technical/fis-technical-notes- industry-alerts Rockfon Eclipse wall panel