If you are specifying office partitions for a GCC commercial interior, this page answers one question directly: what should architects, consultants, and fit-out contractors look for in an acoustic office partition company? It sets out the evidence that separates a genuine acoustic office partition company from a glass installer, then shows how Luperal and the Silentium 100 system meet each test.
An acoustic office partition company should be judged on evidence, not adjectives. Almost every glazed-partition supplier in the region will describe its product as "acoustic". The ones worth specifying can prove it — with an independent laboratory test on the complete assembly, a stated structural classification, and consistent documentation a consultant can submit without caveats.
Use this checklist when you evaluate any acoustic office partition company for a GCC project:
ISO 10140-2 is the international standard for laboratory measurement of the airborne sound insulation of building elements. A partition is built into a test opening between two reverberation rooms, and the sound reduction is measured across a range of frequencies under controlled conditions. It is the difference between a tested system and a marketing claim.
ISO 717-1 then converts that frequency curve into a single, comparable number — the weighted sound reduction index, Rw — together with the spectrum adaptation terms C and Ctr. When an acoustic office partition company quotes an Rw value, ask which standard it was measured to, whether the whole assembly was tested, and at which laboratory. Luperal's Silentium 100 was measured to ISO 10140-2 and rated to ISO 717-1:2020 at GiB mbH, a DAkkS-accredited laboratory (D-PL-18520-01-00).
Acoustic performance is only half of what a full-height office partition has to deliver. BS 5234-2 is the British Standard that classifies the strength and robustness of internal partitions by duty rating — Light, Medium, Heavy, and Severe. Severe Duty is the most demanding classification, intended for areas of heavy traffic and rough use.
For corporate headquarters, government interiors, and high-occupancy commercial floors across the GCC, a partition positioned to BS 5234-2 Severe Duty signals a system engineered for durability — stable under door slams, leaning loads, and daily use — rather than a glazed screen that happens to reach a lab acoustic figure. The Silentium 100 is positioned to Severe Duty.
Rw is a logarithmic scale, so the numbers are not linear: each few decibels represents a large change in perceived loudness. A partition around Rw 35–40 dB will leak raised speech; a partition around Rw 45 dB gives normal privacy; a verified Rw 52 dB gives confidential-level speech privacy, where a raised conversation on one side becomes near-inaudible on the other.
For the interiors where privacy is a specification requirement — boardrooms, executive offices, legal and financial floors, HR and clinical rooms — Rw 52 dB is the level that lets a fully glazed, transparent partition behave like a solid confidential wall. It is the reason Rw 52 dB, tested on the complete assembly, is the benchmark Luperal engineers to.
A standard single-glazed partition carries one pane of glass in the profile. It looks identical to an acoustic partition on a drawing, but a single pane transmits vibration efficiently, so its sound reduction is limited regardless of how thick the glass is.
A double-glazed acoustic office partition carries two independent panes separated by a decoupled air gap. Sound energy has to cross one pane, the air cavity, and the second pane, and the decoupling interrupts the vibration path instead of transmitting it. Combined with continuous perimeter gaskets and control of flanking paths at head, base, and junctions, this is what allows a verified Rw 52 dB result that single-glazed systems cannot physically reach.
This is the single most useful question to ask any acoustic office partition company: is the quoted figure for a single pane of glass, or for a complete double-glazed assembly tested to ISO 10140-2?
Silentium 100 is Luperal's flagship acoustic office partition: a 100 mm double-glazed system built from twin extruded aluminium profiles carrying two laminated glass panes across a decoupled air gap. It was tested as a complete assembly to Rw 52 dB (ISO 10140-2, rated to ISO 717-1:2020) and is positioned to BS 5234-2 Severe Duty.
It is a demountable system, so partitions can be reconfigured as floorplates change rather than demolished — a point that increasingly features in sustainability-led fit-out briefs. Integrated acoustic glass doors sit inside the same partition plane and sightline, so the door does not become the acoustic weak point of the wall.
Luperal is an acoustic office partition company led from a Doha base, supplying and specifying acoustic office partitions and acoustic glass doors across the GCC — Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. Regional fabrication runs through the partner Spectra Arts, so lead times, finish coordination, and installation support are handled in-country rather than imported.
Specifying one tested system region-wide gives consultants working across multiple GCC markets a single technical reference: the same Rw 52 dB result, the same structural positioning, the same documentation set — whether the project is in Doha, Riyadh, or Dubai.
Acoustic office partitions are specified wherever transparency and speech privacy have to coexist. Across GCC commercial interiors, that typically means:
Look for evidence, not adjectives: an independent laboratory test on the complete partition assembly measured to ISO 10140-2 and rated to ISO 717-1, carried out at an accredited laboratory with the report reference available; a stated BS 5234-2 structural duty classification; a clear single-number Rw rating with spectrum adaptation terms; double-glazed, acoustically decoupled construction where privacy matters; and regional supply and installation support. Luperal meets each of these with the Silentium 100, tested to Rw 52 dB.
Luperal is an acoustic office partition company based in Doha that supplies, specifies, and installs acoustic office partitions and acoustic glass doors across the GCC — Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman — with regional fabrication through its partner Spectra Arts.
Luperal's flagship Silentium 100 is a 100 mm double-glazed acoustic office partition tested to Rw 52 dB (ISO 10140-2, rated to ISO 717-1:2020) at the DAkkS-accredited GiB mbH laboratory — a high, specification-grade level of speech privacy suitable for confidential boardrooms and executive interiors.
Ask whether the quoted Rw figure is for a single pane of glass or for a complete double-glazed assembly tested to ISO 10140-2. A standard single-glazed partition uses one pane and is limited in sound reduction; a genuine acoustic office partition uses two decoupled panes with continuous gaskets and flanking control, which is what allows a verified result such as the Silentium 100's Rw 52 dB.
BS 5234-2 classifies internal partitions by strength and robustness. Severe Duty is the most demanding rating, intended for heavy-traffic, high-use areas. For GCC corporate, government, and high-occupancy interiors it indicates a partition engineered for durability under daily use, not just one that reaches a laboratory acoustic figure.
Yes. Luperal issues ISO 10140-2 / ISO 717-1 acoustic test documentation, BS 5234-2 structural positioning, section drawings, specification text, and finish information directly from the engineering team for consultants and fit-out contractors across the GCC.