(01) Journal
Journal
11 entries
Notes on the furniture we specify, the makers behind it, and the workplaces we help deliver.
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AS 1428 and the furniture schedule: which clearances are law and which are good practice
Part D4 of the NCC sets the doorway at 850 mm clear and never uses the word furniture. The clearance figures a furniture schedule actually needs, and where each one is published.
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Hospitality furniture in a workplace: what transfers and what does not
Most hospitality seating is tested to the same standard as an office visitor chair, at the same 110 kg. What does not transfer is table height, power and the reset.
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Which HÅG chair: Capisco, Puls, SoFi and Tion compared
Capisco, Capisco Puls, SoFi and Tion do four different jobs. The published seat heights, seat depths, tilt ranges and environmental declarations, and which family belongs on you...
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Aged care furniture: what the rules require, and when a chair becomes a restraint
No Australian Standard lists what goes in an aged care room. Standard 4 of the strengthened Quality Standards and the National Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines do that...
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Campus learning spaces: the furniture figures universities publish
Australian universities publish their furniture requirements as building standards for their own contractors. The area allowances, table sizes, chair clauses, sightline rules an...
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Healthcare waiting rooms: how many chairs, and how high
The published figures put six chairs per clinical team member and two square metres under each one, which makes the waiting room most of the size of the consulting rooms it serv...
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Which Pedrali chair: the range compared by setting, size and code
Geneva lists 65 Pedrali families in Australia: 20 contract chairs, 9 stools, 18 tables and bases, 11 built for outdoor use. The shortcut by setting, by published dimension and b...
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Public library furniture: the brief nobody books and nobody owns
A library serving 100,000 people opens a minimum of 64 hours a week to an unknown user. The published figures that decide the furniture package: 1600 mm adult shelving, a 1500 m...
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Weight-balanced recline: how a Humanscale chair adjusts itself, and who it does not suit
Humanscale task chairs have no recline tension dial. What the weight-balanced mechanism actually does, the figures Humanscale publishes for each chair in the range, and the four...
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Acoustic soft seating: what a high back actually does in an open plan
A high back changes the sound path between two people sitting down. It does not make a room quieter and it does not make a conversation private. Here is the height that decides ...
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Counter, bar and poseur heights: matching the stool to the bench
Counter stools sit 600 to 650 mm for a 900 mm bench and bar stools 750 to 800 mm for a 1050 mm poseur. The seat, footrest and spacing figures behind those numbers, from publishe...
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