(01) Journal
Journal
38 entries
Notes on the furniture we specify, the makers behind it, and the workplaces we help deliver.
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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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Thinking Works desking: Ovation, Rosie and Okidoki compared
Ovation is the only one of the three that moves: 590 to 1210 mm electric, 100 kg on two legs and 150 kg on three, with a 30 kg point load. Rosie and Okidoki are fixed at 740 and...
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Reception desk heights: what 1100 mm actually means on a plan
Every reception desk in Geneva's range is 1100 mm high at the hob and 900 mm deep. That 1100 mm is the ceiling the published access guidance sets for a counter, which means the ...
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Sustainable office furniture: which claims hold up on a schedule
An ecolabel, a self declaration and an Environmental Product Declaration are three different documents saying three different things. Only one of them produces a number you can ...
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Whiteboards and writable walls: what belongs on the specification
The surface, the size, the depth off the wall and the warranty. Four published numbers decide whether a whiteboard line survives the fitout, and the fifth thing that matters is ...
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Commercial upholstery ratings: which fabric numbers belong on a schedule
An abrasion figure means nothing without the test method printed beside it. The published thresholds, the tests that matter more than abrasion, and the point where Australian fi...
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Monitor arm weight ranges: why the wrong arm fails in month three
A monitor arm is specified by a weight range, not a maximum, and a screen below the bottom of that range fails as surely as one above the top. The published ranges, clamp limits...
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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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Anatomy of a Sydney CBD floor: what goes where and why
A Sydney CBD floor is planned from three numbers before any furniture is chosen: 12 m² per workpoint, 30 to 35 per cent circulation, and meeting seating for half the headcount. ...
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Open plan office noise: what the research actually measured
The published research on open plan noise points at one variable: how intelligible the speech is, not how loud the room reads. What each study actually measured, what the seven ...
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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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Acoustic ratings on a plan: what NRC, Rw and dB actually tell you
Four different numbers turn up on acoustic submittals and they answer four different questions. The absorption ratings, the weighted coefficient αw and the North American NRC, s...
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- Address
- Shop 1, 209 Harris St
Pyrmont NSW 2009 - Hours
- Monday – Friday
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