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Riba CPD

Fellert is currently working on setting up a Riba CPD presentation, so yesterday we visited the Royal Institute of British Architects in the heart of London for a pre-assement meeting.

We are aiming for a presentation that will explain how seamless acoustical plaster functions, when it is preferable to use in comparison with other sound absorbing materials, how to use it in specific environments like museums, galleries, churches, mosques, offices, schools, hospitals etc. and finally how to write a proper specification.

The pre-assement meeting went very well. we got quite a few useful hints on how to improve the presentation, so now remains only hard work to get it done.

And last but not least, to find a good headline for the presentation.

More information on RIba CPD can be found on the Riba webpage:

http://www.architecture.com/EducationAndCareers/CPD/NewCPDCoreCurriculum.aspx

What you see is what you’ll get

2-Methyl-2H-isothiazolin-3-one, 1, 2-Benzisothiazoline-3-one, does that sound like ingredients you’d like to find in your morning cereals?

– I don’t think so. Most of us are quite aware of and rather picky about what we eat. Strange ingredients added which we can’t identify and can’t understand the purpose of them being there normally makes the alarm bell to ring.

In today’s world of sustainable design, this way of thinking is more or less transformed also to the design and construction segments. List and identify all hazardous substances with the strategy to eliminate or minimize as much as possible by selecting the “greenest” products, every time there is an option.

Acoustical plaster is normally nothing you’d think of eating, even if that stunt has been pulled off to illustrate the fact that Fellert plaster doesn’t contain any strange hazardous substances at all.

If you haven’t seen it, check it out here: Fellert’s acoustical sandwich

The ingredients are cotton and natural minerals. The carrying agent is pure fresh water, that vapors from the plaster surface when exposed to normal room conditions.

This might for sure not be the quickest way for “paint to dry”. There are probably dozens of agents that can be added to the plaster to speed up the drying, but with the quicker drying, you will automatically also get a nice collection of CAS numbers along with impressive combinations of numbers and latin names of substances.

Therefore we are proud to say that we have no intentions to add anything that will make our plaster hazardous just because we want to gain some time on drying. It is not just worth it.

2012 CISCA Convention Awards

The 2012 CISCA Convention Awards have recently been official at the convention held in Charlotte, NC.

Fellert has a long history of CISCA awards, as the Gold award for Blackhawk hotel , Davenport, IA last year. The Silver award for US Naval academy Annapolis, MD and Gold award for the Nelson Atkins Museum of art, Kansas City, MO the year before that.

At this year’s Convention Fellert won a CISCA Gold award for Acoustical Solutions – West for the Fellert installation done at St. Gabriel´s church in Poway, CA.

Fellert also won a CISCA SIlver award for Acoustical Solutions – Central for the Fellert Installation done at Hazeltine National Golf Course  in Chask, MN.

the Eggshell effect -a frightening example

We have paid a lot of attention in other post on, what we call the Eggshell effect,which is the combination of hard coatings on soft cores and all the risks that comes with that.

Here are some links to these earlier posts

 the Eggshell effect

Bullet proof vest technology

more on Bullet proof vest technology

Here are some frightening pictures from one actual project where we can see the downsides of the Eggshell effect very clearly.

This is a tinted black, glass marble coating on a soft mineral absorbent board, done by one of the companies promoting a hard shell, soft core product.

The pictures are taken just a few months after the installation was finished.

this damage could have been avoided, by choosing a soft shell, soft core product, like Fellert instead.

Fellert presented at exhibition in Tallin, Estonia

Via our Estonian representative Acoustical Solutions OÜ, Fellert participated in the interior design exhibition in Tallin last week.

We chose to present Fellert by running case studies and videos on a large number of tv-screens to get attention from the people passing by.

It turned out to be a nice looking exhibition stand.

Bloody mary at Scotland Yard pub in Viimsi Estonia

Great spicyness, wonderfully decorated, nice tomato flavor.
(too strong for our representative Stanley though)

Blended by the Cocktail king of Estonia

This is a definite 9 baldheads out of 10.

refurbish buildings of cultural value with Fellert

Old buildings very often fails to meet up to todays standards of sound environment. At the same time you are very limited in choice of materials when you refurbish such buildings. The cultural value must be kept intact.

Imagine that you can use a ceiling and wall material with top of the line performance when it comes to sound absorption at the same time as it can be formed to copy the original design.

You will meet up to todays requirements and no one would be able to tell how you did it.

The pictures below shows one example of a very delicate refurbishing of an old building.

Bullet proof vest technology and Fellert Acoustical ceilings

Here’s another excellent example on how the “Bullet proof vest technology” actually works.

Picture this:

– Our representative in Denmark, Mute has as showroom in the centre of Copenhagen. In this showroom there are  two cloud installations made with Fellert acoustical ceilings. One with a Secern finish and one with a Sahara finish.

These clouds have been supplied with electrical winches, so they can be lowered down to give the viewer an opportunity to overview also the backside of the installation.

One morning when Marcus Kjellsson from Mute opened up his showroom he got quite a surprise. Both clouds had fallen down, as the suspensions had given up. The clouds had fallen down and half of it had landed on the table below and the other half was hanging loose from the edge of the table. The stucco was broken and the suspension grid, holding the cloud, was heavily deformed.

There was however something that wasn’t cracked or broken, despite the massive torsion caused by the deformed suspension grid and that was the Fellert Acoustical ceiling.

Marcus just stretched out the deformed suspension as straight as possible and hanged up the cloud in the ceiling a second time.

That is Bullet proof vest technology!

Do you want to know more about it. Read this old blog post on the subject

Fellert’s new Business cards – appearance is everything

A while ago we decided to renew our business cards. Having the strong opinion that most business cards are both ugly and boring, we were very determined to walk the line and come up with something completely new and different.

You can see the result below. Pretty cool, huh?

Fellert Ultra acoustical ceiling at Design station Finland

Not the biggest, but definitely a nice project installed by our Finnish representative Acoustic Scandinavia.

The system used is the Fellert Ultra.