Acoustic lights

Enhanced well-being through better room acoustics

Noise from printers, telephones or keyboards is unavoidable in everyday office life. However, in order to maintain productivity and protect the health of employees against noise stress (employee performance can drop by up to 10%), modern companies rely on soundproofing measures. Acoustic luminaires are one of the most efficient ways of combining the need for artificial office lighting with sound absorption.

Forms of noise

Aural noise effects

Affect the hearing directly, e.g. blast trauma. These hardly ever occur in everyday office life, but they are an important issue in occupational safety, e.g. during construction work.

Extra-aural noise effects

Are a stress reaction to an excessively high noise level, which manifests itself in reduced performance, for example, but also affects health. These occur most frequently in everyday office life.

Cocktail party effect

Insufficient sound suppression ensures that personal conversations can also be heard. There is a lack of acoustic privacy and you constantly feel "overheard".

Infobox legal requirements

No statutory noise limits apply to the office. However, DIN EN ISO 11690-1 recommends maximum values, which we take into account in our advice as well as other recommendations from state institutions and employers' liability insurance associations.

Sound pressure levels of > 55 dB are already perceived as disturbing
Speech quality suffers at > 70 dB
In offices, the background noise level should not exceed 30-45 dB
In industrial workplaces, a background noise level of 65-70 dB can hardly be avoided

The greatest noise nuisance in the office is to be expected from electronic devices and the workers themselves. With a good office concept and high-quality acoustic lamps, we ensure better room acoustics and therefore a higher level of employee satisfaction.

Locations for acoustic lamps

There are several ways to reduce noise in the office (see below for further measures). Acoustic time-outs are also a good idea in public spaces, e.g. in the catering trade. Acoustic luminaires are a practical and aesthetically pleasing solution. They combine lighting and sound absorption by having a body made of sound-absorbing material, e.g. cotton felt.