For immediate
release
6 July 2005
IAC RELOCATES
ENTIRE ACOUSTICS DEPARTMENT AT WORLD-LEADING SALFORD UNIVERISITY
 IAC
of Winchester, a world leader in acoustic solutions, is supplying a whole
new suite of acoustic recording and testing facilities to the world-leading
acoustics department at Salford University in Greater Manchester. The
total project is valued at over £400,000.
As part of a 2-year
relocation programme, the entire acoustics department is on the move,
to existing 1960s premises located nearby on the main university site.
IAC is designing and installing the new Recording Studio facilities and
Anechoic Test Chambers in a move that will take 9 months to complete.
The largest component
is the acoustics suite. The Recording Studio facilities are being installed
within the ground floor of two adjacent buildings, both of which date
back to 1960s and are undergoing major refurbishment. The four Recording
Studios will each be large enough to accommodate bands of musicians while,
in their dedicated Control Rooms alongside, acoustics students will be
taught sound recording techniques. The space and acoustic performance
requirements pointed to IAC’s patented Moduline construction system.
Ian Rich is IAC’s
Business Manager, Studios: “Our ‘Moduline’ approach
comprises acoustically-rated 100mm acoustic panels which form the walls,
floors, ceilings. Each acoustically-sensitive area within the suite is
designed on a room-within-a-room approach. The inner chamber has a floating
floor supported on anti-vibration mountings; the floor also has integrated
technical wire ways for all the equipment that will occupy the rooms.
The floating floor then supports the Moduline walls and roof. As a complete
entity we can guarantee optimum airborne and structural sound isolation.”
Moduline is also demountable, so should the department ever be on the
move again, relocation would be fairly straightforward.
Each of the four Recording
Studios is linked to its own Control Room by high-performance acoustic
doors and viewing windows which are integrated into the structure. The
Noise-Lock acoustic doors are IAC's standard range twin magnetic seal
type, with slam-free closure feature. The vision windows are custom-designed
and many have low reflective properties.
The Recording Studios
themselves have a sculptured design which ensures acoustic balancing,
while stylish hard-wearing carpets and stretch fabric wall coverings provide
an attractive decorative finish.
In addition to the
studios, IAC is fitting out two new Acoustic Test Chambers in a different
location on the campus: one anechoic and two hemi-anechoic. The walls,
roof and floor of all three of these test chambers are of conventional
concrete and block construction while the chamber lining comprises foam
wedges which are the most suited of the options available, to the general
purpose testing that will take place in the chambers. Foam wedges are
ideal for testing the mid- to high frequencies that typically are generated
by most very high spec electronic equipment.
Ian Rich concludes:
“Our connections with Salford University go way back. We’ve
built a number of acoustic facilities for them over the years, and indeed
IAC continues to employ a number of Salford acoustics graduates who are
now putting back into the next generation of fellow acoustical engineers.”
ENDS
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information please contact Sally Davis in the IAC Press Office on +44
(0)23 9266 1600 sally@theprdepartment.co.uk
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