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2009 3 December
IAC Doors and studios for the BBC at Media City
 Europe’s top acoustic door manufacturer IAC has supplied 39 high performance acoustic doors for the BBC’s buildings at the huge new ‘Media City’ under construction in Manchester.
The initial 36-acre site (the size of 18 football pitches) in Salford Quays will contain office space; a studio block; retail and leisure space; 378 apartments; a hotel; a piazza, and more. This ‘sustainable’ new city will be served by cycle lanes and trams.
Phase 1 is due for completion in 2011. The city will gradually come to life during the early part of the year, as the studios host their first live shows, people settle into their new offices, and bars and restaurants welcome their first customers.
The BBC’s Building C is now complete and has 22 IAC single STC-51 acoustic doors, featuring a combination of specialist ironmongery and design features, including swipe card systems, large acoustic vision panels and low reflective glazing where required. In addition IAC has also supplied 1 sliding acoustic door to office spaces, and 2 Bi-Fold Quad leaf doors – a new product. These custom-designed folding doors offer a 4-leaf assembly spanning a 4m-wide space, allowing the clients the choice of folding back to open up, or to close off the Green Room space which sits between the two new ‘5 Live’ Studios.
Buildings A & B are still in progress and will have a total of 13 single STC-51 doors, 1 Bi-Fold Quad leaf door, and 1 double STC-51 door.
Kane Watkinson is IAC’s Product Manager for Acoustic Doors. “We have a long history of supplying the BBC. Our acoustic doors are in many of their main broadcast buildings UK-wide including the 27 cutting edge studios we installed at their Mailbox TV facility in central Birmingham, and many regional radio stations around the nation.”
For further information on IAC’s range of acoustic doors, visit www.industrialacoustics.com/uk or contact Kane Watkinson on +44(0)1962 873000 kanew@iacl.co.uk
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