PriWatt film in Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals’ New York office
A week, an occupied floor, and three kinds of room
Ipsen’s New York office is where its commercial and research teams work, which means the material on the table changes room by room and hour by hour: a pipeline discussion, a regulatory meeting, a negotiation, and then an ordinary Tuesday.
PriWatt switchable film was applied to the existing glass partitions and windows across the executive offices, the meeting rooms and the conference spaces. One week on site, worked around the office’s own day, with the film cut to each surface and the schedule agreed with the office’s designers.
What confidentiality means on a floor like this
Be exact here, because it is where the marketing copy for this product usually overreaches.
| Claim | Status |
|---|---|
| A room can be made visually private in under a second, from inside it | True, and the whole function |
| Material on a screen or a table stops being legible from the floor | True. Concealment on PDLC is around 98%; shapes and shadows do not read through |
| It supports a confidentiality practice the organisation already has | True, in the same way a door does |
| It ensures compliance with HIPAA or any other regulation | NO. Compliance is a programme of administrative, physical and technical safeguards that a covered entity owns. A pane of glass is not a control regime and no supplier can sell one |
The distinction matters more in a regulated industry than anywhere else. A privacy measure that supports a safeguard is genuinely useful and is easy to justify. A supplier claiming a product delivers compliance is a sentence that gets read back to somebody in an audit.
A week on an occupied floor, and how that is possible
- The film goes onto the glass in place, so nothing is re-glazed and no partition is removed
- Work proceeds room by room, so one room is unavailable at a time, not a floor
- Each panel is measured and cut before anything arrives, so site time is application and wiring, not fabrication
- The low-voltage runs use the partition framing that is already there
The third is the reason the survey happens before the order. Film is cut to the opening at manufacture. A run of partitions that looks modular almost never is, and measuring each pane individually is what stops the last one being 8 mm short.
Which rooms, and which mode
Executive offices, meeting rooms and conference spaces have one thing in common: their privacy requirement changes during the day. That is the test, and the reason circulation glazing and open-plan areas were left alone: a surface whose requirement never changes wants a fixed answer, in whichever direction.
On mode: normal-mode film is private with no power and clear when switched, which suits a room closed more often than open. A meeting room on a collaborative floor is usually the opposite case and is the argument for reverse mode: clear unpowered, drawing current only for the hour the door is shut. It is the first question on any of these projects, and it is answered as a behaviour, not as a product name.
Specified on this project
PriWatt PDLC switchable film
Self-adhesive film applied to glass already in the building. Private unpowered, clear when switched.
Offices and boardrooms
Partitions, meeting rooms and executive offices — the application this belongs to.
Office partitions
How a glazed run is built: where the joints fall, and how one transformer serves a wall.
A project like this one
A research or commercial floor where the confidentiality of a room changes with what is on the table. PriWatt manufactures in Pompano Beach, Florida. Every quote is worked from the project’s own drawings, so send dimensions. A photograph with the sizes written on it does the same job. Earlier than that, book the call.
