In a clinical corridor the wall is cleaned far more often than it is looked at, and every clean is a chance to move dust rather than remove it. These panels are built for that regime: a low-gloss diffuse face, Class A fire performance, and a dry prefabricated installation.
A gloss wall reflects every luminaire and every window in the corridor, which is why glossy panels read as retail rather than clinical over a thirty-metre run. The face on this panel is low-gloss and diffuse: measured gloss is reduced by 42.9%, so light is scattered across the surface instead of mirrored back at the patient.
The second half of the same property is dust. The surface does not generate dust and does not accumulate it the way a tacky or deeply textured finish does, so a wipe-down removes what is on the panel rather than pushing it into a profile.
That matters beyond appearance. Dust on a high-level wall is what an infection-control inspection samples, and it is the surface nobody can reach without a platform.
The published set is below. Where a property is a performance classification rather than a laboratory number, the document that carries it is named in the last column.
| Product | Parameter | Result | Test standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical clean wall panel | Fire classification | Class A | Report on request |
| Medical clean wall panel | Surface gloss | Reduced 42.9% | Report on request |
| Medical clean wall panel | Dust generation | None | Report on request |
| Medical clean wall panel | Dust accumulation | None on the face | Report on request |
| Medical clean wall panel | Installation | Modular prefabricated, dry | Method statement |
| Medical clean wall panel | Services | Concealed in the panel cavity | Method statement |
A wet-trade wall needs a drying window before the next trade can follow, and that window sits on the critical path of every ward refurbishment. A prefabricated dry system removes it: panels arrive cut to the setting-out drawing, fix to a sub-frame, and the room is ready for the next trade in the same shift.
Behind the face there is a cavity, and that is where the services go. Conduit, small-bore pipe, data and low-voltage runs sit inside the panel zone rather than chased into blockwork, so a socket or a sensor is set into the face and the run behind it stays inside the system rather than inside the structure.
For a phased project the practical difference is sequencing. Walls can go up in a corridor that is still in use, one bay at a time, without wet mortar, without cutting, and without the dust that a blockwork alteration puts into a live ward.
Clinical interiors where the wall has to be cleanable, flat and quick to close:
Where the wall sits in a room with an acoustic requirement — a consulting room, a ward corridor with a hard floor — the wall and the ceiling should be specified on the same drawing, because the absorption is doing part of the work the wall cannot.
The junction details are where a three-supplier package usually shows: a skirting that does not meet the panel base, a wall head that leaves a gap to the ceiling grid, a floor finish that lifts under the wall. Because we manufacture all three surfaces, those details are drawn once and owned by one party.
For the floor side, the homogeneous PVC vinyl sheet is the line most often paired with this panel in clinical corridors; the flooring overview lists the rest of the range.
Yes, Class A, and the report is released with the quotation. Whether that satisfies a particular corridor or compartment requirement depends on the local code and the project fire strategy — send the clause and we answer against it in writing.
Yes. Conduit, data and small-bore services are set out inside the cavity, with outlets cut into the panel face at the factory or on site. Send the MEP layout with the wall schedule and the setting-out is coordinated before production rather than on the scaffold.
Quoted per project — they depend on panel size, the number of outlet cut-outs and the area. Send the wall area by room type and the finish, and both are confirmed in writing with the quotation, together with a sample panel and a cut section.
We return the fire report, the surface data and a setting-out drawing with the cavity details.