Backyard Office Pod

Working from home in a spare bedroom or at the kitchen table creates blurred boundaries between work and personal life. The HEMU Acoustics Backyard Office Pod provides a physically separate, acoustically isolated, and thermally comfortable workspace in your own garden — without a planning permit in most jurisdictions (under 15 m² footprint).

Unlike indoor office pods that rely on HVAC from the host building, the Backyard Pod is a self-contained structure. Double-glazed windows (Uw 1.4 W/m²K) and PIR-core insulated roof panels (R-3.5 / RSI 0.62) maintain interior temperature year-round with a compact heat pump/mini-split unit. Exterior surfaces carry IP65 weatherproofing to resist rain, UV, humidity, and temperatures from –25 °C to +60 °C.

Acoustic performance centres on STC 38 composite wall panels with an outer weather-resistant fibre cement skin, 100 mm mineral wool fill, and inner perforated acoustic liner. A standard exterior ambient noise of 55 dB(A) (suburban daytime) is attenuated to below 20 dB(A) inside — equivalent to a whisper.

The pod ships as a flat-pack kit and can be assembled on a concrete or compacted gravel base in 2–3 days by two people. All structural connections use marine-grade stainless steel fixings. The interior is pre-wired with a consumer unit, lighting circuits, and multiple outlet positions before shipping — a licensed electrician connects the incoming mains supply on site.