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Fellert Even Better, an important part of the new Bloch building at UMKC.

Thanks to a donation of 32 MUSD from Henry W. Bloch, a new building for Entrepreneurship and innovation were built at the university in Kansas City, UMKC.

A Project team of, to mention a few, BNIM Architects, MRY Architects and the General Contractor J.E. Dunn, stand behind the project. The installation of the Fellert system were magnificently done by E&K from Kansas City.

The result became a beautiful yet highly functional building with  several unique facilities which contains unique possibilities for state of the art, innovative teaching techniques.

We are off course, needless to say, very happy that Fellert has a natural place in this context!

Old post office in Italian post renaissance style + Fellert Even Better = Performing arts center.

At Fellert, we would like to take the opportunity to highlight this extraordinary example of how to use modern materials to preserve the original architecture and design.

Together with the responsible architects at Studio Pali Fekete Architects, Fellert has been working on creating a ceiling that meets up to today’s requirements in sound environment, at the same time as the original experience of italian post renaissance is kept in color, shape and texture.

When looking at the pictures, one clearly understands that the almost endless possibilities of adjusting the surface of the seamless acoustical ceiling by Fellert Even Better were taken advantage of to the limit, in order to reach the desired result.

That the address happens to be Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills  doesn’t make things any worse. We like to fantasize about all the celebrities that will pass through under the undulating Fellert ceiling, now and for many more years to come!

BMW = Fellert Even Better

Boulevard de Waterloo is the Champs Élysées or Oxford Street of Brussels.

A street where many internationally recognized companies have chosen to locate their boutiques and showrooms.

One of the companies who recently decided to open up a showroom there, is BMW.

The cars from BMW and the showroom itself goes hand in hand. They both radiate performance and design.

With that background, it is not very surprising that Fellert Even Better were the selected  material for the walls and ceilings.

Customized entirely to the client’s requirements, more than 900 m2 of Fellert Even Better Silk were installed in the ceilings, followed by a wall and ceiling area of approximately 1500 m2 with the exact appearance of raw concrete. This texture is totally unique for this project.

The pictures speaks for themselves when speaking about design. The walls look like concrete. The smooth, white, monolithic ceilings stretches throughout the entire facility. Just as beautiful as the lines of the BMW’s 6-series. It is hard to grasp that these surfaces actually has yet another function.

The function allows large crowds of people to reside there at the same time. Conversations can take place without being disturbed by the surrounding noise. The staff doesn’t have to deal with headache, tiredness or problems to concentrate

It is, in other words, possible to combine sound absorption and design!

This is what we call performance!

Nothing of this would have happened without our excellent representative in Belgium, Engepar SA.

Happy Holidays!

Fellert wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (click the picture)

Inspiration for those who want to use Fellert Even Better in the office environment

As young, innovative companies made their way into the 2000s, the attitude to the office and its design was changed. A cosy and attractive office can make a difference, for example, when recruiting excellence. Of course one would like to work for a company that really shows how successful and innovative they are, rather than for a company that is still stuck in the norm from 1972.

Fellert Even Better is designed to meet the requirements of sound environment demanded of modern buildings today, whilst it does not restrict the original design initiative at the same time.

Our world amongst seamless acoustic ceilings is not black and white.

Another example of bad acoustic solutions

When Waynes Coffee moved into the old City hall building of Borås, they wanted for obvious reasons to decorate the facilities according to their own concept.

Already installed there was an acoustical tile ceiling. Wrong color, but that can easily be repainted.
– too bad that it no longer absorbs any sound after the paint has closed all the pore in the acoustic panels.
– too bad the MEP-people didn’t put all the panels back in place after finishing their work.

Us Fellert people know that it could have been done so much better by choosing a seamless Fellert ceiling instead. The brown colour could easily been colour matched and the plaster pigmented and since the ceiling is seamless, no one has to worry about having panels on the run!

And most important of all, even after being tinted brown, the ceiling would still absorb 85 – 95% of the sound that hits the surface.
– That would have been highly appreciated, especially by the people working behind the counter all day long!

Hospital Acoustics with Fellert Even Better

“Doubling the amount of acoustic absorption present in a room halves the total sound energy, leading to a 3 dB reduction in reverberant noise level” states a website set up by Sheffield University in cooperation with Ramboll Acoustics, called Hospital Acoustics.

This is especially interesting since acoustic levels in today’s hospitals are very high.
– CISCA states in a white paper from 2010 that, on average, daytime levels have risen 0,38 dB and nighttime levels have risen 0,42 dB – each year regardless of what type of hospital or facility that were examined.

Imagine that replacing a standard painted gypsum ceiling by a high performing acoustic ceiling like for example the Fellert Even Better Silk, would increase the acoustic absorption 5 times or more. That will do miracles in terms of reverberant noise levels!

We, at Fellert, recommends to read the white paper from CISCA as an introduction to Acoustics in Healthcare environments, although it completely forgets about the benefits in terms of hygiene and design to use a seamless acoustic ceiling like Fellert Even Better Silk instead of plain ceiling tiles. Contact CISCA for more information on how to get a copy of the white paper, www.cisca.org or download it via the link below.

Acoustics in Healthcare Environments_CISCA

Not as hard as you might think!

A great building getting even better in France, the city hall of Belley.