Quick answer: Co-working spaces have calls, meetings and focus work in the same open area. Treat the main floor with ceiling absorption (how much sound gets soaked up), give calls booths or small rooms, and treat meeting rooms separately. Panels in brand colours can double as design features that help the space feel finished.

Key takeaways

  • Ceiling absorption on the main floor.
  • Booths or rooms for calls.
  • Brand-coloured panels as features.

What causes distraction?

Calls, meetings and chats all happen in the same hard, open room. Sound from each one carries across the floor. Members trying to focus hear all of it.

What to do

Put quiet desks and social areas at opposite ends. Treat the ceiling over the main floor and add call booths. Treat each meeting room on its own, because closed rooms echo too.

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Quieter co-working spaces infographic

Design

Panels come in 39 fabric colours, so they can match your brand. Custom printed panels can carry a logo or artwork. That way the panels work as décor as well as sound control.

Cost

Treat one zone at a time to spread the cost. Each panel is S$165 installed, so 20 panels come to 20 × S$165 = S$3,300. A 6 × 4 m meeting room usually needs another 8–12 panels on top of that. See how to reduce echo in an office.

What members complain about

Calls at the next desk, music from events, and echo in meeting rooms are the usual noise problems. Ceiling panels, call booths and treated meeting rooms address those three in turn. Panels stop echo inside a room, but they do not block sound between rooms, so booths and meeting rooms also need solid doors and seals.

Using panels as branding

A custom-print feature wall at reception, in your colours, can carry the brand and soak up sound. It turns a bare hard wall into one that soaks up echo in a busy entrance. See custom print panels.

What we see on real jobs

A co-working floor with calls and chat in one room needs ceiling treatment first. Booths and meeting rooms come next.

Get a straight answer for your room

Send a photo of the meeting room or floor on WhatsApp (+65 8930 1905), with the rough size. We'll tell you how many panels, where they go and the price, and we can prepare documents for your building management.

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