Creating Safer, Quieter Spaces with Temporary Walls During Occupied Renovations Renovating occupied spaces is no small feat, but with the right tools, it can be seamless. At the James Center, temporary wall systems played a pivotal role in maintaining safety, minimizing noise, and ensuring uninterrupted operations. Discover how …
Temporary Walls for Commercial Construction
STARC Systems is known and trusted by leading contractors and facilities in all 50 states, Canada and Australia, for delivering premier, reusable and great looking containment solutions. Both STARC systems feature innovative design, superior engineering, exceptional durability, a full range of accessories and best-in-class customer service. Our original system, now called RealWall™, is the industry’s unmatched premier solution and established the sound attenuating category of containment. Our newest product, called LiteBarrier™, is the most durable solution in the lightweight containment category. Both systems are backed by an industry-leading warranty.
Avoid the Disruption of Commercial Renovation
Both STARC systems are perfect for any commercial application where isolating the renovation space from sensitive occupied areas is key. The construction barrier systems are quick and easy to set up and take down and, because it’s reusable, it pays for itself after just 3-5 uses, virtually eliminating future containment costs.
RealWall™ and LiteBarrier™ are being used across a number of commercial markets including office space, airports, education, life sciences/biotech, data centers and hospitality. RealWall™ is an ideal solution where sound attenuation, unmatched durability and stability, real wall appearance and quick and quiet disruption free installation is required. LiteBarrier™ is an ideal lightweight solution for jobs requiring superior durability, lower upfront costs, great looks, frequent phases requiring reconfiguration, quick and quiet disruption free installation or to complement existing inventory.
ICRA Barriers That Exceed ICRA Class IV/V—and Deliver ROI
Healthcare Construction Leader Embraces Drywall Alternative For ROI Gain W.E. Bowman, based in Richmond Virginia, is recognized as a leader in healthcare construction. Their clients include Southside Regional Medical, Riverside Health Systems, Central Health Systems, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Universal Heal…
Temporary Construction Walls Streamline Cleanroom Build-Out
Medtronic Leverages RealWall for Superior Dust Containment Medtronic is among the world’s largest medical technology, services, and solutions companies, with more than 370 locations worldwide. J. Calnan & Associates (JC&A) serves as the construction management team for renovation projects at the company’s Danvers, Ma…
Quick, Quiet, Clean: Temporary Construction Walls Enable Seamless HQ Expansion
Three-phase, fast track office build-out showcases STARC advantage over dust, noise containment Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) is the world’s largest provider of services for individuals with renal diseases and other chronic conditions. J Calnan & Associates (JC&A) of Boston provided pre-construction and construction man…
Temporary Construction Walls Help Data Center Meet Client Needs—Fast
STARC’s versatile temporary wall systems providing competitive edge over ‘caged solutions’ Oxford Networks, now FirstLight, offers a robust suite of advanced telecommunications products, including data centers with best-of-breed technologies. Challenge Oxford Networks’ high-end clients have stringent requirements for the…
‘Great-Looking’ Temporary Wall System Raises Standard for School Laboratory Renovation
Construction Crews Gain Easy Access to Lobby-Based Work Area Challenge The first renovations at Malden Catholic’s school included building new laboratory spaces. The space itself included several challenges. The JC&A crews needed to build an L-shaped temporary containment wall with a door where crews could easily access th…
Can Contractors Use Temporary Construction Barriers for Multiple Jobs?
Contractors can spend a lot of time and money putting up temporary walls or barriers during construction or renovation projects. There’s the cost of materials, the labor to install, and the expense of tearing it down, disposing of it, and cleaning it up afterward.
Office Wall Partitions to Protect Occupied Areas
We spend a lot of time on this blog discussing how our modular wall systems are particularly well-suited to healthcare construction and renovation projects. Although we’re obviously proud of the fact that our ICRA-compliant RealWall™, LiteBarrier™ and FireblockWall™ reusable temporary contai…
Managing Unpredictability in Construction Projects
Today’s occupied renovation contractors are experiencing a new level of unpredictability: supply chain inconsistencies and unforeseen price escalation, building owner uncertainties and schedule changes, labor shortages and unprecedented gross margin challenges. Exactly the kind of big-picture outl…
6 Observations from our Customers: What’s Different Now?
For an industry that strives to be on-time and under-budget, it’s difficult to plan and execute in a time of instability. All over the country and across professions we’re seeing layoffs, furloughs, new work protocols, office spaces downsizing due to remote working, fewer projects, stretched sup…
Temporary Airport Walls That Eliminate Renovation Disruption
In today’s economy, airports have become more than centers of transportation. They have emerged as bustling centers of commerce and development. With the latter come renovation and construction projects that are commonly undertaken amongst immense crowds on their way somewhere. Temporary airport w…
What is a Dust Wall? | Buy Once Use, Over and Over
Construction Managers and contractors who work in the healthcare industry recognize that dust poses serious health risks at hospitals and healthcare facilities during remodeling and renovation.
Challenges of Infection Prevention and Control During Construction
Updated August 2021 IPs, FMs, or healthcare contractors may have heard of the Safety Risk Assessment or SRA, and most start to think about the Infection Control Risk Assessment or ICRA only in the days before construction begins. Both should be integral parts of the design and planning phases o…
What is an Anteroom? Create an Anteroom with Negative Air Panels
Updated: August 2021 Modular wall systems not only demonstrated their usefulness in handling the huge number of COVID-19 patients since the start of the pandemic but also showed how hospitals could deal rapidly with infrastructural needs in other large-scale healthcare emergencies while minimizing d…
RealWall™
If your project requires reusable modular walls that deliver the look and feel of a traditional wall while significantly reducing renovation noise, RealWall™ is the best solution available. A go-to favorite among contractors for healthcare, airports, data centers, bio/life sciences, office space and education, RealWall is the …
LiteBarrier™
Considered the most durable modular wall system in its category, LiteBarrier features a slim aluminum frame and fiberglass-reinforced polymer partitions – ideal for projects requiring a quick turnaround. When the project calls for a temporary partition wall with door, LiteBarrier is your best option for an easy-to-use, modular…
FireblockWall™
Stops fire. Saves time. Imagine a reusable one-hour fire-rated modular containment system that installs four times faster than drywall. That’s FireblockWall, the durable temporary wall system that uses the same lift-and-drop connections and telescoping tracks that made RealWall and LiteBarrier preferred solutions among contrac…