Architectural Solutions & Space Division

Data protection is a high priority issue for just about every business in the modern world, but that’s not the only reason to care about visual and acoustical privacy.  Both are critical for employees to support their emotional, physical and cognitive well-being.

VISUAL PRIVACY

Here are just a few examples of how our architectural solutions can help achieve visual privacy within the workspace:

1. Using solid panels that can be fabricated with a variety of surface materials, from painted steel to wood and fabric.
2. Applying an opaque or semi-transparent film to glass panels.
3. Applying Casper Cloaking film to glass to mask screens from external view.

ACOUSTICAL PRIVACY

Noise and lack of speech privacy can create a workplace full of distraction.  It’s not a new problem, just a persistent one.  Our architectural solutions can offer multiple ways to help you achieve acoustical privacy within your workplace.  Demountable walls can offer varying levels of auditory privacy depending on their composition, from single and double-glazed glass to solid panels with or without additional insulation.  The addition of sound masking can also help reduce distraction and offer improved speech privacy.

The flexibility of our wall products allows us to seamlessly integrate displays, cameras, projectors and LED lighting, providing an immediate advantage over traditional construction.  Technology can be housed within solid wall systems or hung from glass walls allowing greater choice and control over your space.  Our architectural solutions offer you the luxury of not getting left behind as technology rapidly evolves.

Designed for Sustainability

Being able to reuse modular walls keeps drywall out of the landfill.  In fact, Steelcase modular walls are one of the most sustainable architectural wall systems available.  They are Cradle to Cradle and BIFMA certified in North America and they are also SCS Indoor Advantage certified – ensuring low-emitting materials made without PVCs or VOCs (volatile organic compounds) and they create no off-gassing.

DEMOUNTABLE WALLS ARE A 100% REUSABLE PRODUCT.

Demountable walls can even help organizations achieve LEED certification credits.

SAVING TIME + MONEY

Modular walls add up to a smart use of space and resources.  Choosing modular walls makes it possible to save in many different ways:

• Compressed installation time because the walls are built prior to installation
• Reusable components, which reduce repeated material costs of tear-out and rebuild
• Quicker, less-costly changes and reconfigurations – the financial benefit of flexibility
• 7-year depreciation, compared with 39 years for conventional construction
• Design for environmental sustainability, human health and LEED contribution

FINANCE YOUR WALLS

As you navigate the decisions about your new workplace, it is important to
include the financial objectives of the organization as well. You are not only
changing the work environment, you are investing capital resources. Have you
asked yourself how this might integrate with the goals for the financial
performance of the organization and how it will bring value to your shareholders?
Sometimes you may need to dive deeper into your workplace acquisition strategy.
Steelcase Financial Services can help.

Being a wholly-owned by Steelcase Inc. and the office furniture industry’s only
captive finance company, our consultants bring their insights and experience to
helping companies identify solutions that have a positive effect on cash flow,
return on equity and return on assets. We can provide information on topics such
as tax implications and industry trends, as well as an analysis of the acquisition
tactics like lease vs. buy.

benefits

• Protects credit lines – keep existing credit lines open and preserve your borrowing power.
• Managing your balance sheet – options to help you better manage your balance sheet and improve your overall financial picture, including return on equity and return on assets ratios.
• Realize tax benefits – monthly payments may be treated as tax-deductible operating expenses.
• Increased flexibility – flexible payment and end-of-term ownership options, allowing you to pick the program which best fits your budget or long-term space plan.
• Easy add-ons – as your business grows, you can easily add the additional products you need to your Steelcase Financial Services Master Lease.
• Fixed-rate financing – your payment remains the same throughout the term.

Privacy Wall and Privacy Wall GS are high-performance, moveable walls that give you the flexibility and variety to accommodate not just today’s needs, but also the continually changing needs.

V.I.A. creates intelligent rooms, designed to augment human interaction by providing true acoustical privacy and hosting technology.  It provides a sense of permanence with the speed and design flexibility of a relocatable wall.

Supporting the range of people’s needs in today’s open environments is challenging.  To meet the unique spatial needs we are seeing in today’s workplace, Steelcase has added a freestanding enclosed solution, the IRYS pod.

The seamless aesthetic of Lite Scale Glazing enhances Privacy Wall and Glass Selections modular architecture solutions to define workspaces and infuse elegance.  Lite Scale Glazing also integrates with traditional construction to let in light and lend sleek sophistication.