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For immediate release 2008 15 January IAC Semi-Anechoic Test Chamber for Volvo, Sweden Swedish car manufacturer Volvo has awarded IAC a substantial contract to supply and install the acoustic equipment for their new Vehicle Semi-Anechoic Chamber located in Gothenburg. The chamber’s enormous interior measures 19m x 13m and 5.3m high and has a 60Hz cut-off. The chamber will be lined with 700 Metadyne LF anechoic wedges – patented IAC technology. These metal-faced wedges give proven guaranteed acoustic performance and have superior fire and impact resistance. They are easy to clean to keep their ‘as new’ appearance and can be painted with corporate colours where requested. This new chamber for Volvo, like all IAC facilities, is a bright, healthy and safe environment for test personnel. Other equipment to be supplied includes a large vehicle access door and a personnel door both with internal wedge basket doors, a forced air cooling duct, four special corner vents, a large ceiling anechoic air outlet duct and the chamber lighting system. The manufacture of all equipment will be carried out at our Winchester production facility ready for installation and commissioning in Gothenburg by the end June 2008. “We have had links with Volvo now for many years and last year we were awarded an engineering design contract,” says Geoff Howse, IAC’s UK Chief Engineer. “This was to specify the scope of the anechoic chamber and to help their project team with all of the difficult acoustic interfaces such as the foundations, the chamber concrete shell, the ventilation systems and the dynamometer.“ Philip White is Key Account Manager with IAC Nordic. “A number of factors helped us to secure this important contract: the fact that we provided extensive consulting input on all significant sound, vibration and ventilation aspects of the new facility, our longstanding relationship and the smaller contracts we’ve had from them before.” For more information on Anechoic Test Chambers contact Graham Dale, Global Test Facilities Manager on grahamd@iacl.co.uk 01962 873024. ENDS For further press information please contact Sally Davis in the IAC Press Office on 023 9266 1600 sally@theprdepartment.co.uk
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