Speech clarity is important in meeting rooms. Hard surfaces can cause echo that makes it difficult to hear and be understood. Acoustic wall paneling was added to two walls of one room to absorb sound and reduce echo. Sound masking speakers can add noise to combat distractions from conversations outside closed doors or in open areas. Proper lighting is important for meetings rooms, with optimal lighting at the table to reduce eye fatigue and boost concentration. Standards provide guidelines for indoor lighting conditions and visual comfort related to average illuminance, glare limits, and color rendering.

1. Video Conference Room
Design & Move
Articulated by
Benny Vazhappilly

2. Creating a Technology-Enhanced Conference Room

3. Ergonomic Assessment

4. Telepresence Room

5. Audio Visual Facility Plan

6. How many can be accommodated in a meeting room

7. conference room desk size for 8 people

8. Conference room design aspects

9. Meeting Incentives

10. Speech clarity in meeting rooms
• Speech clarity in meeting rooms is vital. People must be able to hear and
be heard. Boardroom can produce significant echo due to the hard
surfaced areas and elongated shape of the room.
• We provide an acoustic design solution by adding wall paneling, in a
number of appealing colors, to two of the walls. This allowed for sound
absorption to reduce echo and help with speech clarity.
• Improving our focus by measuring sound levels.

11. Spatial Acoustic measurements

12. Reverberant Sound

13. Acoustics In Buildings

14. Absorption Coefficients

15. Sound Masking
• While a building’s designer can do their best to minimize noises from the
outside world, the noises inside can be just as problematic. Conversations
from outside of offices or conference spaces can distract those inside the
room. At the same time, the people on the other side of a closed door are
often not expected to hear the discussions taking place inside the room.
Even in an open area environment, conversations can collectively add to
the distraction of their co-workers. To combat this, specialized speaker
systems known as sound masking can add a degree of “noise” to the
environment that will make it more difficult to either get distracted by too
many conversations or noise from a nearby TV or other sound source, as
well as make it difficult for people to eavesdrop. Typically, these speakers
are placed above a ceiling grid, or hung from the ceiling deck above and
provide an upward (or sometimes downward) full frequency source of
white noise that can help cancel out what can be heard in a quieter
environment.

16. Removing Echo From a Video conference room
• acoustic treatment on walls

17. Acoustic Ceiling
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18. Drop Tile Ceiling

19. Sound proofing 3D Self-Adhesive Wall attire

20. The perfect lighting for meeting rooms
• The lighting of a meeting room is more complex that you might think.
There are different factors you need to allow for. For example, light
intensity, the position of fixtures, changing lighting needs, and so on.
• Lighting is extremely important. Working while sitting at a table when
it is under-lit is unpleasant. It tires the eyes, which leads to a loss in
concentration. Good lighting boosts concentration. This is why the
table must be optimally lit.

21. visual comfort standards
• At Belgian and European level, standards were set up to determine and test the indoor lighting
conditions and visual comfort. These standards are too
• The illuminance Em to be insured is the value for the average illuminance that must be at least
achieved on the work surface
• The limit value for the annoying glare (of the lighting installation) wants to ensure that glare does
not interfere with the execution of the task. The calculation is based on the conventional
evaluation method of the degree of glare (the UGR, Unified Glare Rating or Uniform Glare
degree).
• The color rendering index Ra expresses the power of a light source to correctly display the
different colors of an illuminated object. It is a value without a unit and it is between 0 and 100.
The higher the value, the more correct the colors are displayed.

22. Values ​​according to NBN EN 12464-1
Interior type E m (lux) UGR L (-) Ra (-) Note
Technical drawing 750 16 80
Writing 500 19 80
Conference hall 500 19 80
Front desk 300 22 80
Archives 200 25 80

23. Emergency lighting