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title: Case Studies - Explore how AET has helped organisations
description: Explore how AET has helped organisations improve speech privacy, reduce distraction and create calmer working environments across offices, meeting rooms and open-plan spaces.
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# Sound Masking projects delivered in real workplaces

Explore how AET has helped organisations improve speech privacy, reduce distraction and create calmer working environments across offices, meeting rooms and open-plan spaces.

Designed around the space

## Practical acoustic solution, shaped by the building

Every project starts with the same question: how is sound behaving in this specific workplace? These case studies show how AET designs, installs and commissions sound masking systems around real layouts, real privacy needs and real operational constraints.

 

 

![Polycoustic Panels](https://www.aet.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Polycoustic%20Panels.webp?width=6000&height=3375&name=Polycoustic%20Panels.webp)

Recent Projects

## Case studies

Shark Ninja

### Workplace Privacy

A bespoke low-profile sound masking system helped make speech less intelligible across open-plan areas while supporting meeting-room privacy.

[Read Case Study -->](https://www.aet.co.uk/case-study/shark-ninja?hsLang=en-gb)

London and Manchester

### Speech privacy across two office locations

AET supported confidential meetings, consultations and open-plan working across the General Medical Council's London and Manchester offices. 

[Read Case Study -->](https://www.aet.co.uk/case-study/general-medical-council?hsLang=en-gb)

Vodafone headquarters

### Sound masking across a seven-building headquarters

A bespoke system with 1,540 speakers helped manage speech privacy and acoustic comfort across open-plan areas, offices and meeting rooms. 

 

[Read case study -->](https://www.aet.co.uk/case-study/vodafone?hsLang=en-gb)

DLA Piper

### Privacy across a multi-floor legal workplace

AET supported confidential conversations and reduced distraction across DLA Piper’s open-plan legal workplace.

[Read case study →](https://www.aet.co.uk/case-study/dla-piper?hsLang=en-gb)

Chevron

### Open-plan workplace focus

Sound masking helped improve acoustic comfort and reduce distracting speech across Chevron’s open-plan workplace.

[Read case study →](https://www.aet.co.uk/case-study/chevron?hsLang=en-gb)

Nestlé

### Sound masking across three office floors

A zoned sound masking system supported concentration and speech privacy across three open-plan office floors.

[Read case study →](https://www.aet.co.uk/case-study/nestle?hsLang=en-gb)

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