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June
2007
I encourage all of you to enjoy the stories that follow and focus on your successes, it is contagious! Many thanks to our reps, customers and consultants for their continued hard work and contributions in helping IAC, Making the World a Quieter Place! The balance of the year looks good and is filled with plenty of opportunity. IAC America is building its Engineering and Design staff in an effort to support our delivered and installed turnkey projects across all of our business units including Access Systems, Silencer Systems and Architectural Plan and Specification. Please visit our new and improved website complete with detail drawings and specifications for most of our products and services. Thanks again Kenneth DeLasho
At the Denver Convention Center, IAC America showcased the new AccuTone™2 800 Series Audiometric Booth Model 800-a7 which is ‘miles above’ traditional alternatives. This modular test environment was factory-finished using the IAC Jade Green enhancement finishes and featured a fabric interior, combination chair rail with wire raceway, baseboard electric with data and communication tray. The abuse-resistant, metal-panelled interior also featured a deluxe jack plate with 16 phone jacks, VGA adapter, serial port and two 2 USB ports. The STC 61 single-leaf acoustic door showed an integrated full-glass viewing window.
Many thanks to our technical representative team for their customer service and sales support. Congratulations to Tom Heins of Integrity Acoustic Solutions for his successful salesmanship in finding a ‘home for the state-of-the-art 800-a7 Audiometric Booth. Special thanks to Joseph Bair and Viasys Healthcare for providing the new GSI 61 audiometer to complete the display. IAC America is definitely making the world a quieter place! For further information on our Audiometric Booths contact Dom Nardi dnardi@industrialacoustics.com
Of all their 86 offices world wide, London is home to one of the largest and most diverse, with employees from more than 45 different nationalities.
A former ‘smoking room’ was decommissioned for dedication to more healthy pursuits. The compact space now houses a room within a room, constructed using IAC’s patented ‘Moduline’ acoustic building system. The room comprises a floating floor, 4 walls, and inner and outer acoustic doors. The interior has lighting and numerous power points and is also connected to the existing ventilation system. For added acoustic flexibility within the space, the magnetic, fabric-covered absorptive acoustic wall plaques can be removed as desired, to adjust the internal tuning of the space. For more information on Music Practice Rooms contact Dom Nardi dnardi@industrialacoustics.com
IAC America’s Aero-Acoustic Laboratory played host to a visit by a group of acoustical engineering students in April. Dr James Abbott, Director of the Cooper Union Audio Lab brought his students along to get some real world exposure to noise control products, testing and manufacturing. While with us they were able to observe how IAC tests our noise control products in accordance with ASTM and ISO standards.
Across the pond, IAC UK is corporate sponsor of the UK Institute of Acoustics’ biennial ‘Young Persons’ Award for Innovation in Acoustical Engineering’. Now running for the second time, this year’s prize will be awarded in October by Trevor Baylis OBE, world-acclaimed inventor of the wind-up radio. Brian Quarendon, CEO and Group President said: “As a leading acoustics company world wide, we have a corporate responsibility to encourage young people into the industry. Celebrating young people’s ideas is a great way to do this and we are looking forward to introducing Trevor Baylis to some of the burgeoning European talent the industry has to offer.” If you are interested in our USA Student Visit Program, please contact: Maureen Gibson on 718-430-4524
IAC is pleased to announce the introduction of the new 252 Sound Shelter to replace the older-style 250 sound shelter. The new 252 is already in production. The 252’s new design is engineered to allow flexibility in any environment. It can be quickly transformed to achieve a right or left- hand configuration. The reconfiguration from right to left or relocation from ‘space’ to ‘space’ can be accomplished in a “New York Minute” without any disassembly of components, by one staff member, and without the use of any tools.
The new 252 Sound Shelter is: Ideally suited for: Equipped with: Ready to go to work: The Booth is available in khaki color from stock for immediate shipment or, in other configurations with a choice of nine standard colors, on request. The new 252 Mini Sound Shelter carries the American Mark of Safety and is UL listed as an assembly. For more information on the 252 Mini Sound Shelter and our other Audiometry products, please give us a call at IAC America (718) 931-8000.
This order has been awarded to IAC Stopson Italy by Nuovo Pignone the Florence-based company acquired by GE in 1994, and now the principle operator of GE Oil and Gas in Europe. In addition to IAC Stopson Italy securing this substantial order, we are now considered as a major supplier for future business with Nuovo Pignone.
IAC’S HOT SUMMER PROTECTION FOR WORLD INTERNET HUB
Level 3’s London Data Centre handles a massive amount of internet traffic, a third of the world’s online communications go through this hub. As well as Internet Protocol (IP) services and broadband transport for many of the world’s largest providers, they also host modem and telecom voice services. The Centre’s ability to guarantee continuity of service is crucial to businesses across Europe and the USA.
Garry Wilson is Construction Manager with construction project management leaders, Structure Tone. “This project is part of Phase 3 of a longer-term upgrade of the whole facility. The IAC Acoustic Louvre Screen will enhance overall building performance and help to secure service continuity for Level 3 customers.” For further information on IAC America’s acoustic louvres contact Nathan Clute nclute@industrialacoustics.com
The emergency generator plant required to power the London West Data Centre in the event of a power outage is extensive as are potential noise emissions. In order to protect neighbouring offices and light industrial units on the estate from noise from the building’s power and chiller plant, IAC is to supply and install a steel acoustic screen comprising 1,000 square metres of bespoke 50mm-thick acoustic steel panels. The panels will be supplied to site as 3-metre wide sections in a standard paint finish. IAC will undertake full on-site installation of all the panels including all trim angles and doors. The project is due for completion July 2007. Ray Athill is Project Manager for Lakesmere, specialist contractor for the Data Centre project. Lakesmere are leaders in the provision of external building envelope packages including roofs, walls and glazing. “IAC were the natural choice for this element of the project given the acoustic requirements and the proven performance that their acoustic screens deliver.” For further information on IAC acoustic screens contact Nathan Clute nclute@industrialacoustics.com
Keen to maintain their market position the OEM requires this upgrade to enable the facility to accommodate research and development of their latest generation of engine. Substantial changes are necessary to the air pathway, thrust stand and supporting services to ensure the research and development capability, whilst meeting the acoustic and other environmental constraints. IAC Aviation is the preferred partner of other OEMs world-wide and an approved supplier to Rolls-Royce. The company adds value to the bottom line for MROs by supplying and refurbishing multi-engine test facilities for maximum efficiency and engine throughput. IAC Aviation’s clients include many of the world’s most prestigious manufacturers and users, both military and civil. For further information on IAC’s Aviation products and services in the USA contact Nathan Clute nclute@industrialacoustics.com Contact Us If you have any comments or suggestions concerning either this newsletter or our website, please contact Maureen Gibson on 718-430-4524 or, to send her an e-mail, click here. If you wish to unsubscribe from this newsletter please click here IAC America 1160 Commerce Avenue Bronx, New York 10462
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More often then not we focus on our short comings, what’s wrong, what didn’t go right. I believe that this is well intentioned in an effort to improve our competitive position. However, by doing so we miss the energy of success, the accomplishments, and the ‘win’.
IAC exhibited at the American Academy of Audiology premier audiology convention ‘Audiology 
This new Audiology test environment provides an in-field noise reduction of NIC 60 and is the only product UL listed as an assembly in the marketplace today.
McKinsey - management consultancy serving the biggest brands around the world - has commissioned an IAC music practice room at their superlative Jermyn Street offices in central London. 
The company describes itself as keen to ‘attract, develop, excite and retain exceptional people’, so staff benefits are the tops. Free music and singing lessons have now been added to the list. Learning something new such as how to play a musical instrument, is deemed by experts to be a great de-stresser. Keen not to disturb the work going on elsewhere in office suite, or in neighbouring premises, an IAC’s studio was the answer. 
The IAC Group, keen to promote careers in acoustical engineering, has hosted a student visit to our Aero-Acoustic Laboratory in New York.
Brian Duffy, IAC America’s President, said: “As a world-leading company, we are keen to promote acoustical engineering both sides of the Atlantic, as a rewarding and satisfying career option for young people. Who knows, perhaps some of these students may one day be part of the next generation of engineers at IAC?”
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, established in 1859, is among the America’s oldest and most distinguished institutions of higher learning. The college, the legacy of Peter Cooper, occupies a special place in the history of American education. It is the only private, full-scholarship college in the United States dedicated exclusively to preparing students for the professions of art, architecture and engineering.
IAC Stopson Italia has won a substantial $4M (€3M) contract from world giant General Electric for the supply of three off-base, noise-insulated enclosures for a GT25 gas turbine and compressor package. This will be installed by the end of this year in Tunisia, North Africa.
In response the threats from rising summer temperatures to a key world internet services’ hub in London, IAC is providing a 130M-long Acoustic Louvre Screen for Level 3 Communications’ London Data Centre. Internet disruption is an increasing risk with Europe’s rising summer temperatures. 
Located right in the City of London, noise emissions from chillers and extensive plant rooms serving the building require attenuation in order to prevent noise nuisance to the local residents and businesses. But during the long hot summer of 2006 the chillers broke down for a number of hours, so losing the London Data Centre a huge amount of business. This had been in part due to a solid noise attenuation screen around the chillers. IAC is replacing this existing rooftop screen with an acoustic louvre 130m long and 3m high. This will allow sufficient air flow while still delivering excellent noise attenuation performance. 
IAC is supplying a bespoke Acoustic Screen to a large industrial facility on an industrial estate in southern England as part of a 
IAC Aviation has been awarded a $9.9M (€7.3M) contract by one of the world’s leading engine manufacturers. The contract is for the upgrade of one of the OEM’s engine test facilities based in the south west of England.
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