Education

The aim of Building Bulletin 93: Acoustic Design of Schools (BB93) and Building Bulletin 101: Ventilation of School Buildings (BB101) is to provide a comprehensive guide for architects, building control bodies, building services engineers, clients, and others involved in the design of new school buildings. These regulations have heralded a new era in school construction.

Since the new building regulations came into effect, architects need to evaluate the sound insulation profile of the school building envelope. This places emphasis on roof construction, including rain noise, external walls, ventilation openings, external doors and windows. All these factors affect the way noise travels and reverberates within the final structure.

IAC works in partnership with building contractors, acoustic consultants, architects and building services engineers to ensure that new builds and refurbishments comply with these new regulations. The introduction of these regulations around the construction of schools is good news for students, teachers and administrative staff.

Contact our Architectural Team to find out more about our services and acoustic products.

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Typical Education Applications

IAC delivers acoustic solutions to the Education market that includes:

Music practice rooms that provide students with the perfect environment in which to assess and improve their playing technique and performance
Language laboratories that provide students, teachers and lecturers with the optimum environment for language learning
Acoustic test chambers that allow research students and academics to undertake product testing for manufacturers and research
Recording studios that offer the perfect environment for sound recording and mixing.

Components used within the Education sector

IAC offers a number of different acoustic products that are useful in a school environment

Acoustic doors contain and exclude noise emanating from classrooms and corridors
Acoustic partitions provide outstanding acoustic performance and divide large internal spaces
Acoustic windows provide a flexible and effective solution to noise reduction for both internal and external applications
Varitone sound absorptive wall panels reduce distracting echo or reverberation effects inside school buildings
Floating Floors provide permanent maintenance free and cost-effective noise control solutions that provide greater values of sound insulation than can be achieved with single solid floor slabs
Acoustic Screens and Enclosures protect staff, pupils and local residents from noise nuisance generated from air conditioning units