WDR television broadcaster (Brussels - Belgium)

Like all the major European radio and television broadcasters, the German broadcaster WDR has for a long time had its own studios close to the European institutions in Brussels. The previous building had become too cramped and so the broadcaster relocated to entirely new premises. The new six-storey building houses WDR’s offices and broadcasting and recording studios. The most important part of course is the studios, where high-quality acoustic insulation is essential. On the ground floor there is the large television studio (105 m2), which was built on the ‘box-in-a-box’ principle. As a result a very high air sound insulation of 55 to 65 dB has been achieved. The studios on the other floors, with associated direction and producing rooms, are acoustically almost equally well insulated as the large TV studio on the ground floor.

Merford supplied sound-insulating doors for the WDR studios, some of which are also fire-resistant.