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March
2007
We look forward to 2007 for more growth from unique turnkey project solutions balanced by our continued standard noise control products business. Our new product launches for this year will include TrackWall Vision Series, absorbers, diffusers and fabrics, factory offices and music practice rooms. These will improve our competitive position to meet the challenges ahead. I am very excited about our new website, which is complete with drawings and details for most of our products and services. I am confident that, with your help, together we can make this year a great success. Enjoy the stories that follow and thanks again for your commitment to IAC, our products and services. Kenneth DeLasho
IAC AMERICA WINS $4.3M SILENCERS CONTRACT FROM US NAVY
In what is a great win for IAC America, the contract cites us as the sole supplier for all the Navy’s ships to be built over the next 10 years. The current USA military budget will finance the building of a minimum of 7 DD(X)-class ships and each ship requires silencers worth over $600K each. Technical co-operation within the global IAC Group has proved highly productive and helped us to secure this substantial order. Fellow IAC engineering associates from across the pond have worked closely with our Research and Development Director, Jonathan Weinstein, here. Mike Campbell, IAC UK's Operations Director and his colleague Russell Hagerty travelled to the USA regularly as negotiations progressed.
This contract builds on the excellent working relationship built up with US Navy shipbuilders over some time. In 2005 we won 2 contracts totaling $1M from them for Gas Turbine Intake Silencer systems for the Navy’s DDG Arleigh Burke-class of Aegis-guided missile destroyers. For further information on IAC’s silencers for marine applications please contact Nathan Clute on 718-430-4567 nclute@industrialacoustics.com or visit www.iacsilencers.com
IAC UK ’S NOISHIELD SOUNDWALLS TAKE THE CREDIT
Chillers and emergency power generation plant for the facility are housed in two compounds. The 16-foot-high free standing steel Noishield Soundwalls surround both compounds, providing guaranteed sound reduction due to their excellent sound transmission loss and absorption characteristics. Constructed from the proven IAC Soundwall system, the pre-fabricated 5-inch-thick panels are stacked between steel posts to the 16 feet height. The Soundwalls have been fitted with four IAC acoustic, personnel access doors, and three large double access doors, the largest of which is 18 feet high and 21 feet wide. These doors were custom-designed and built at IAC UK's Winchester manufacturing plant and were installed on site in January. Richard Lissenborough, Soundwalls Manager, IAC usa, said: "On this job our reputation went before us. The acoustic consultant had had previous experience of IAC noise barriers, as they are termed here, whilst in the US and so was confident to use us here. The sheer size and complexity of this project meant the specification was not for the faint-hearted and so it made sense to use IAC as we provide full design, manufacture, delivery and installation." For more information on our Noishield Soundwalls contact Brian Schellati - Acoustic Treatments 718-430-4514 bschellati@industrialacoustics.com
IAC AUDIOLOGY SUITE FOR WORLD-LEADING HOSPITAL IN OXFORD, ENGLAND
Working within stringent design guide specifications laid down by the UK government’s Department of Health and Social Security, the project was completed in under 6 months from drawing work to installation.
For more information on IAC America’s proven ‘Moduline’ modular design and build audiology Test Room solution and our other audiometric products contact Dominick Nardi – People Environments 718-430-4532 dnardi@industrialacoustics.com
IAC ACOUSTIC DOORS WORTH $1.6M FOR LINCOLN CENTER
Business Unit Manager, Access Systems, Craig D’Anna worked with IAC’s representative Quiet Star Industries on the project. Craig said: “This is what I trust will be the first of many projects that incorporate our new turnkey solution in which we provide the entire door package - acoustic and hollow metal, delivered and installed complete.” For more information on our turnkey acoustic doors packages contact Craig D’Anna – Doors & Windows 718-430-4519 cdanna@industrialacoustics.com
The Eden Court Theatre in Inverness way over in the Scottish Highlands is to benefit from IAC’s noise control expertise as part of a $3M refurbishment programme to turn it into a venue of national importance to Scotland.
IAC’s long-standing Scottish agents, Morrison and Miller, were brought in to design and manufacture acoustic silencers for the new ‘natural ventilation’ system for the theatre which stands in the centre of Inverness. This system utilises the natural airflow within the building so obviating the need for duct fans but requiring that airflow be completely unrestricted. The sheer size of the theatre’s interior to be served meant that some of the ducts needed to be very large. This, in turn, allowed substantial ingress of traffic noise from outside the building. This noise has been attenuated by IAC Quiet Duct silencers in these large ducts. One such attenuator measures an impressive 52 feet long, by 5 feet high and 6.5 feet deep. Stuart Gunn is Technical Manager with Morrison Miller said: “The 52-feet silencer is, we believe, the largest we’ve ever fitted in Scotland, and it did mean we had to overcome a number of technical and physical challenges.” The silencers were all manufactured in Winchester and the larger ones assembled on site. For more information on the IAC silencer range contact Nathan Clute, Business Manager, IAC Silencers 718-430-4567 nclute@industrialacoustics.com or visit www.iacsilencers.com
SETON HALL’S ATHLETICS FACILITY RECEIVES 265-FEET IAC NOISHIELD SOUNDWALL
With around 10,000 students at any one time, and sporting activities very much a part of campus life, the sports facilities are well used and noisily and enthusiastically supported.
The Soundwall measures over 22 feet high, with a 4-foot overhang at the top, at a 60-degree angle, which is unique. Finished in forest green, each panel is of a solid steel construction, with 2 ‘wings’ on each end, wrapping the bleachers.
Working within the constraints of summer vacation dates, the entire project was completed in a 10-week window from design to installation and still came in at less than any competitor’s price. Brian Schellati, again: ”The customer is thrilled with the end result and the way IAC and Quietstar operated. This experience equips us well for further Soundwall projects for other such facilities in the state and beyond.” Contact Brian Schellati, Soundwalls Manager on bschellati@industrialacoustics.com
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Many thanks to all of our customers, our representatives and consultants for what is turning out to be one of the fastest starts in the history of IAC America.
IAC America has been awarded a $4.3M contract for all of the gas turbine intake silencers for the DD(X)-class of destroyers for the US Navy. 
Nathan Clute, Business Manager, Silencer Systems said: “This contract has come after 11 long months of design changes, iterations, and negotiations to satisfy stringent customer requirements. It is indicative of just how effective IAC America is being in gaining traction in the industrial and power silencer market.” 
The community around the premises of a major UK financial services centre in the South of England are now benefiting from enhanced peace and quiet thanks to two large IAC Noishield Soundwalls. 
In a contract worth in excess of $400,000 IAC UK has designed and installed seven bespoke Audiology Sound Isolation Rooms at the world-class John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England.
IAC UK was brought in by one of the UK’s premier European contractors in Hospital Design and Build, on the basis of their proven track record with the company and their top-grade product. 
Winning features of the suite are fully acoustically-tested product and the guaranteed acoustic performance. Couple these factors with fast, clean installation and no wet trades on site, and IAC won hands down over the competition. 
IAC America has won a substantial turnkey acoustic doors project worth over $1.6M for the Lincoln Centre in New York - a great start to 2007 for IAC’s Access Systems division.
As part of the refurbishment programme of the Juilliard School of Music and Alice Tully Hall within Lincoln Center, IAC will supply all of the acoustic doors of what is one of the world’s leading performing arts centres. Just a stone’s throw from Broadway, Lincoln Center occupies 16.3 acres in New York City and houses many of the US’s leading arts and cultural organisations including The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, and the New York Philharmonic.
The first-ever turnkey contract of its kind for IAC America includes both acoustic and hollow metal doors with finish hardware, delivered and installed. In total there are 370 openings with more than 450 door leaves at acoustical ratings as high as STC 55.
Seton Hall University, in New Jersey, 14 miles from Manhattan has installed a 265-feet Noishield Soundwall around part of the athletics spectator stand to protect the local community from noise nuisance. 
Bob Schmitt and Steve Dutton of IAC America’s representative in NJ, Quietstar, received the enquiry in June and the very next day met with Mike Marconi of SHU on site. Within a week IAC America had received the order, Quietstar had undertaken the site survey and the project was underway. 
Brian Schellati is Soundwalls Manager with IAC America. “Quietstar’s handling of this project was outstanding. They co-ordinated the entire installation: steel fabrication, calculations, permits, concrete pours – the lot, and did it all with union labour. Bob Schmitt was on-site all day, every day during the heat of the summer to ensure the job got done on schedule even with unforeseen problems such as the underground cabling which caused us a few headaches. The effort he put into this job to make it a success was nothing short of monumental.”
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