We hope that summer business for you has been a great deal better than the weather here in the UK!

Business continues to be brisk for us here, as more and more businesses recognise not only need to protect customers and workers and neighbours from noise nuisance but also the value to their productivity of having comfortable working environments with low reverberation. The world’s best academic institutions continue to recognise the high performance of our products and that is a great accolade for us; but wherever we market our products we believe we provide genuine, and lasting solutions to noise and sound quality problems.

Thank you for your continued custom – together we are ‘making the world a quieter place’.

Best regards

Brian Quarendon
Group President and CEO

IAC SUPPLIES ACOUSTIC LOUVRE SCREEN FOR SOMERSET RETAIL PARK

Acoustic Louvre Screen is to be installed at the Townsend Retail Park under construction in Shepton Mallet, Somerset

Townsend Retail Park will be home to many of the UK's best-known brands including Tescos and Argos and the Louvre Screen will ensure that shoppers enjoy a quieter shopping experience and local residents are not disturbed by the stores' mechanical services plant. The construction project is being undertaken by McLaren Construction, a member of the construction professionals' Green Register - a company committed to upholding good environmental principles in all its projects.

Noise generated by a plant room serving five major retail outlets will be attenuated by the freestanding Screen. It will consist of energy-saving, high performance R-type louvres of IAC's standard aerodynamic design with low pressure-drop characteristics.

The robust all-metal 3-sided Screen will measure 30m long and 3m high with a white polyester powder finish to match the cladding on the plant room building. The Screen is being designed for maintenance free long life.

Mark Holmes of specialists retail architects, Lyons Sleeman and Hoare of Hook in Hampshire, specified IAC's noise solution and led the project. "The IAC consultant that visited our practice to work through our acoustic screening design informed us of the suitable IAC systems available for the project and helped us realise the product that would best suit our acoustic and architectural requirements."

The most challenging aspect of the project has been time management. Kevin Shipway is IAC's Project Manager. "From site survey and design detailing through to installation we have had an extremely tight timeframe. The whole project will have been completed in just eight weeks. We are confident that we are one of only a few companies in the UK that have the capacity to delivery in such circumstances."

All IAC noise control products are lab-testing and supplied with certified aerodynamic and acoustic performance data.

For more information on this retail solution and all IAC building services products, contact Gary Dawson on 01962 873000 or garyd@iacl.co.uk.

IAC AVIATION SECURES MOD GEM TEST FACILITY RELOCATION CONTRACT

IAC Aviation is pleased to announce a major contract win from the MOD to undertake the full UK relocation of a GEM Engine Test Facility to another site in the UK.

As the MOD’s approved Design Authority (DA) for the GEM Engine Test Facilities IAC Aviation was able to offer a minimal risk solution including minimising down time for this key facility.

The contract was secured in competition with MOD recognising the clear benefits of the IAC solution.

Nigel Spencer, In Service Support Manager at IAC Aviation said: “Of course, this is a critical facility for the MOD so the project management parameters are highly demanding. As DA for the GEM we obviously have an in-depth knowledge and were ideally placed to offer an optimum and low-cost solution. We expect to readily anticipate and avoid any potential problems with the move and therefore deliver a first-class on time contract.”

For more information on IAC Aviation products and services visit www.iacaviation.com or contact Nigel Spencer on 01962 873000 nigels@iacl.co.uk

IAC FACILITATES BRISTOL UNIVERSITY’S WORLD-LEADING NANOSCIENCE RESEARCH

An IAC sound-attenuated Test Chamber is to be part of Bristol University’s new groundbreaking Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information. An adjacent part of this new research centre will house laboratories aiming to be the ‘quietest in the world’.

This interdisciplinary Centre will bring together biochemists, biologists, chemists, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians and physicists, amongst others. This world-leading research team comprises professionals working at the cutting edge of what is known as ‘fundamental science’ research – studying the smallest particles of matter measuring just millionths of millimetres in diameter. The Centre will contain some of the ‘quietest’ labs in the world, with extremely low levels of vibrational and acoustic noise and stringent controls on temperature and air movement. The project’s main contractor is Willmott Dixon Construction Limited.

As part of the Centre the sound-attenuated Chamber to be supplied by IAC will replace a former IAC test chamber supplied over 25 years ago. It will comprise a double-walled chamber from the 1200 Series, and will be complemented by 16 IAC acoustic doors throughout the facility. Experiments into biological processes happening at a nano scale are destined to take place in the IAC Test Chamber.

When the project is completed early in 2008 our Chamber will form a valuable component of the overall research environment. IAC’s fully lab-tested products and proven acoustic performance make them the preferred choice in such demanding environments.

Noah Linden, Professor of Theoretical Physics at this, one of the UK’s leading universities, is the academic lead for the building project. He said: “This Centre is going to be one of the finest nanoscience facilities in the world. As part of it, the IAC test chamber is a specialist facility that we will be delighted to have.”

The construction work on the site will be completed by early in the New Year and this will be followed by a period of testing and commissioning by Willmott Dixon and then a further month of testing by University teams before coming into full use in late Spring 2008.

For further information on the Nanoscience project and all IAC’s sound-attenuated Test Chambers and Test Rooms contact Jason Saunders, Business Manager, Medical & Life Sciences on 01962 873027 jasons@iacl.co.uk

IAC NOISE BARRIERS FOR CALIFORNIA LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT LINE

IAC America has just completed fabrication and installation of a high performance steel Noise Barrier along part of a light rail transit line in California.

The Pasadena Metro Gold Line is approximately 13 miles long and extends from Union Station in the city of Los Angeles to Sierra Madre Villa Boulevard in the city of Pasadena.

“After years of litigation it is great to see that this beautiful community will be a quieter place,” said IAC technical sales representative, Gus Sauter of CE Pickup Company.

The project will comprise 1200 IAC Noishield® FS Barrier Panels. Each 12 cm-thick panel is self-draining and the absorptive side is rated MRC 1.05. The rugged panels are easy to install and available in 45cm and 61cm heights and in sections up to 4.8m long. The panels endure a five-step cleaning process before being factory finished with a tough, thermosetting polyester powder coat available in hundreds of colours and patterns, some to simulate wood and brick.

The panels, although fabricated in steel, are actually lighter and easier to install than traditional wood and concrete barriers and are ideal for ground, bridges, and rooftop community noise control applications.

The second phase of the design build barrier project is now underway and completion is planned for year end.

Contact Richard Lissenborough, Barriers Manager at IAC UK on Richardl@iacl.co.uk

IAC NORDIC KEEPS PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE STEADY IN COPENHAGEN

IAC Nordic has supplied a Vibration Isolation solution for a 200m-long pedestrian bridge in Copenhagen. The solution will prevent bridge sway so vividly brought to global attention by London’s Millennium Bridge over the Thames in its early days.

The Langelinie Bridge spans a large railway intersection and is constructed of steel girders which were cleverly designed to completely conceal the Vibration Isolation system. The system comprises large steel springs linked to Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) that are tuned into the bridge’s own movement frequency such that they are able to absorb all the vibration.

IAC Nordic was chosen as supplier by the leading contractors and held the contractual guarantee with the client. They then worked with specialist German manufacturer, Gerb in a joint venture to complete the project. (Gerb developed the final solution for the Rogers Partnership’s Millennium Bridge.)

This is the first TMD solution IAC Nordic has been involved in but already has interest from another leading global company in a solution for a similar project. TMDs are used not only for bridges but also for large buildings and large machinery.

Anders Olsen is IAC Nordic’s Business Manager “The most challenging aspect of the project was the tight production schedule. It was the good working relationship that we established quickly with Gerb that enabled us to push it through on time.” The project took just 12 months to complete.

For more information on this project and TMD queries contact Anders Olsen on Tel: +45 36 77 88 00 anders@iac-nordic.dk

IAC KEEPS SUSSEX WASTE PLANT QUIET

Sussex Waste in Lancing, West Sussex will have a quieter recycling plant from July 2008 thanks to an IAC noise-attenuation solution.

A family company, Sussex Waste commissioned the design and build of the recycling plant. They were keen to find a more environmentally desirable outcome than landfill for the construction and demolition waste collected by their sister skip collection business. Aggregate and metal waste from the skips is recycled.

Mick Adams is Project Manager at Sussex Waste. “This waste solution is a highly effective process but due to strict noise limits here on the industrial estate we were required by the local planning department to achieve 65db(A) at the boundary to protect our neighbours from noise.”

“IAC is designing and manufacturing an Acoustic Intake & Exhaust Ventilation System to attenuate noise from the plant while allowing the specified volume of air into and out of the building. We are supplying solutions to a growing number of effective but noise-generating recycling plants around the country as the appetite grows for more environmentally desirable outcomes for waste” says Gary Dawson, Business Manager at IAC. The installation will take place in November.

Mick Adams again: “Several companies were recommended to us but IAC provided what was undoubtedly the best solution at the best price.”

For more information on this project and all building services products and services contact Gary Dawson on 01962 873059 garyd@iacl.co.uk

UCL’S DEPARTMENT OF PHONETICS PRONOUNCES IAC AS THE PREFERRED CHOICE

The Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at University College London (UCL) will soon have a suite of seven new sound-attenuated research rooms from the Medical and Life Sciences division of IAC.

UCL is one of the world’s leading research universities and studies of phonetics within its walls reach back to 1866. Alexander Graham Bell, then a student at the College, was later to find fame as the inventor of the telephone. The department (although certainly not dating back as far as 1866!) is now undergoing extensive refurbishment.

As part of the programme the seven new rooms have all been designed using IAC’s patented Moduline system - a modular panel-build system using 100mm acoustic panels for walls and ceiling all mounted on a floating floor. The rooms are designed to HTM 2045 specification, used for audiology applications. Within this double wall, room-within-a-room design IAC will also install full electricals and sound-attenuated air conditioning in each room. One of the rooms also features full radio-frequency shielding. The internal walls both of the test rooms and the lobby area in the suite will all be finished in attractive stretch fabric.

IAC enjoys an excellent reputation with academics in the UK and Europe and is a preferred supplier of UCL. IAC has successfully delivered a number of very high specification projects over the years, including a full anechoic chamber and a suite of five fully-isolated audiometric test rooms for the UCL’s Institute of Laryngology a year ago. Its specification was one of the most demanding undertaken since IAC began operations in 1949.

For further information on IAC’s sound attenuated test rooms contact Jason Saunders, Business Manager, Medical and Life Sciences on 01962 873027 jasons@iacl.co.uk

‘YOUNG PERSONS’ AWARD’ WINNER IDENTIFIED

As corporate sponsor of the Institute of Acoustics biennial ‘Young Persons’ Award for Innovation in Acoustical Engineering’ we can tell you that a winner and runners up have now been identified. Their identity is under wraps until 17 October when the award will be made at the IOA Autumn Conference Dinner in Oxford.

The prizes will be presented by intrepid inventor and intellectual property consultant, Trevor Baylis OBE, inventor of the wind-up radio. He will also deliver a short address on the importance of protecting your inventions and ideas. This is clearly an industry occasion not to be missed.

To book your place for the Conference Dinner, contact the IOA www.ioa.org.uk 01727 848195.

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