If you are specifying boards for a school, university, healthcare setting or public building, this checklist covers what to ask for and what to check before you sign anything off.
Noise control used to be a purely functional purchase. Increasingly, it's a sustainability one too. Procurement teams working to ESG targets - in education, healthcare, and framework-based public sector buying - are asking not just "does it work?" but "what's it made from, and what happens to it afterwards?"
When background noise and echo compete with a teacher's voice, pupils spend more cognitive effort simply decoding what's being said - effort that isn't going toward understanding the lesson itself.