Forman Commercial Interiors

A simple minimal design was the brief for the internal aesthethics of the refurbished Wellington offices of lawyers Buddle Findlay on levels 15-17 of the State Insurance Building.

For Forman Commercial Interiors the challenge was to achieve the acoustic requirements and integrate the lighting , air diffusers , and acoustic sliding door tracks into the metal and perforated plasterboard ceilings to maintain the architect’s high standards of aesthetic finish.

The company installed two different Armstrong exposed suspended ceiling systems - Armstrong’s blue tongue aluminium top hat grid was used with Metalworks 1200x300 micro-perforated steel acoustic ceiling tiles and Armstrong Peakform steel exposed grid was used with Armstrong RH99 Ultima tegular edge acoustic ceiling tiles.

Boral Echostop perforated plasterboard was installed on to Rondo Keylock plasterboard grid adjacent to both the Metalworks ceiling and Ultima ceiling to provide contrasting ceiling finishes.

Installation and integration of the different ceiling types required a high level of accuracy and liason with mechanical engineers Norman Disney Young by the ceiling installers (Forman Commercial Interiors) ensured functionality and aesthethics were not compromised according to site manager Robin Mckeown.