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February
2008
Thanks to all on their continued efforts in making the world a quieter place. Enjoy the stories. Best wishes, Kenneth DeLasho
Target Inc. operates approximately 1,500 stores in 47 states selling ‘high-quality, stylishly designed items plus all the essentials for your life’. Of these, 175 are SuperTarget® stores, with a larger footprint and wider product ranges. A critical condition of Target obtaining their occupation certificate was the protection of the affluent Coral Springs residents from both the delivery traffic noise at the store’s Loading Dock and from the mechanical equipment noise located in the same area.
The attractive façade with its custom-matched color provided superior acoustic performance while meeting the desired aesthetics. The quick manufacture and fast, easy installation by authorised IAC installers supported a timely completion of the construction and met the store’s grand opening date.
IAC Noishield® Cladding Panels are engineered to ensure structural and acoustical integrity and economical installation. The low weight panels stacked between pre-engineered ‘Z’ and ‘Hat’ channels achieved desired coverage for an existing wall height. They can be installed with horizontal or vertical reveals to satisfy aesthetic and architectural considerations. For further information on Noishield® Cladding Panels contact Phil Hooser, Product Manager on 718-931-8000 phooser@industrialacoustics.com
HRH ROYAL OPENS IAC FACILITY AT EUROPE’S LEADING VIBRATION RESEARCH CENTRE
The ISVR at the University of Southampton is Europe’s leading centre for research, teaching and consultancy in sound and vibration. The facilities provide complete clinical and staff accommodation, where children and adults with severe to profound hearing loss receive life-changing technology allowing them to communicate via speaking and listening. Contact Dominic Nardi, Product Manager on 718-430-4532 dnardi@industrialacoustics.com
IAC ACOUSTIC CEILING FOR THE NEW HILO JUDICIARY COMPLEX IN HAWAII
The building contains seven general purpose courtrooms, two family courtrooms, a law library, holding cells, witness rooms, attorney interview rooms and a grand jury meeting room. For over twenty-five years IAC America has been designing, engineering and installing suspended metal ceilings with varying acoustic properties, ranging from high NRC ratings to industry leading TL ratings. The ceilings are designed to provide absorption, Transmission Loss, Fire Rating, accessibility, security and sometimes the turnkey integration of lighting and ventilation
The IAC Noise-Lock V ceiling system was installed using a traditional T-grid support system. The ceilings tegular design provides an attractive shadow line look for a variety of architectural applications. The micro-perforated steel panels were factory finished to match the decor and to improve lighting throughout the designated areas. IAC Noise-Lock V Ceiling System is available in a wide variety of perforated patterns: round, oval, square, and other geometric shapes in both smooth and textured finishes. The panels can be painted to match using baked enamel, powder coated or pre-finished materials. Material options include aluminum and stainless steel. This website carries more information on our Noise-Lock Ceiling Systems. Congratulations to the Architectural Group, Acoustic Systems for a job well done!
Our technical sales representatives are able to identify the product they need to specify using IAC’s industry-unique SNAP tool application software which is available on our website. Having identified their requirements the rep can create submittals and quotes and then order materials through the online portal in seconds, straight through to the New York manufacturing facility. Hal Schlesinger, IT Manager in New York said: “We have built a streamlined system to process orders effectively from all across the USA. Reps place the order, but then the beauty of the new system is that they can track its progress and stage of manufacture through password access from their own desk.” Orders are on the up and customers US-wide are appreciating the faster service and ability to monitor their order’s progress. Brian Schellati, Business Unit Manager, Architectural, said: “We are now looking at introducing similar processes for our standard products and components in the company, including Noise-Lock doors and windows, AccuTone2 Audiometric Rooms, AccuTone2 Concert Series Music Practice Rooms and Studios, and Noise-Foil Absorption panels and ceilings.” Another example of technology in action at IAC as we look at .. Making the world a quieter place! Click here to find the SNAP tool
The chamber’s enormous interior measures 63 feet x 42 feet x 17 feet 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 colors 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.
“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, along with 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 +44 (0)1962 873024.
SUCCESSFUL 2008 AHR EXPO FOR IAC AMERICA
Thanks to all of our representatives and customers for their participation in the 2008 AHR Expo here in New York from January 22-24 and helping to make it such a success. The International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition is the largest event of its kind in the world with the biggest array of HVAC & R equipment, systems and components and services assembled in one place. The 2008 AHR Expo is endorsed by the US Green Building Council (USGBC) and its LEED Green Building Certification and Rating System. The day before the Show more than 20 of IAC’s Technical Representatives toured both our newly renovated manufacturing facility and our NVLAP Accredited Aero-Acoustic laboratory in New York. We demonstrated the acoustic performance of our NEW Ultra Low/Ultra Green Quiet-Duct Silencer, the first of its kind with certified DIL performance in the 31.5 Hz octave band (‘0’ band). The Ultra-Green line is manufactured in response to the fast-growing trend for environmentally-friendly building products. Both forward and reverse flow examples illustrated the field proven benefits of IAC Quiet-Duct Silencers.
The exhibit was busy, too, with the IAC Silencer Systems Group securing more than 100 special opportunities for our sales force. The Tuesday night’s Hospitality Suite included visits from many of our representatives, their customers and consultants. The Silencer Systems team demonstrated our Silent Partners application software and navigated round our newly-designed website, with our unique online SNAP specifying tool and the new on-line ordering facility. IAC is now looking ahead to AHR Expo 2009. See you on January 26-28 in Chicago, Illinois.
These enclosures are for the GT25 gas turbine and compressor package which GE is installing at a gas plant in Korba, near Tunis in Tunisia, North Africa. The facility is dedicated to the compression of gas for transport via the underwater pipeline that crosses the Mediterranean to southern Europe. Manufacturing of the frames and fire-rated panels was undertaken in China at IAC’s manufacturing partner’s facility located close to Shenzen between June and October. Shipment from China to Tunis was a major operation. A total of 63 forty-foot containers made the 30-day journey via the Suez Canal and Malta. Strong support was provided by IAC companies to the local Chinese team throughout the manufacturing process. Components such as the bridge crane, fire fighting system and ventilation have all been procured from European-based suppliers. Olivier Darreius, IAC Boet Stopson’s European Operations Director, said: “IAC Stopson Italy clinched this high value order from GE after a very tough bid process lasting several months. The active support of our French Enclosure business unit to them throughout the engineering and selection process was a key factor in their success. We anticipate that this project will be the first of several, given the expected growth of the gas market worldwide.” Installation is currently underway on site and due to be completed by next summer. The image shows an adjoining part of the same plant.
This contract follows hot on the heels of others for Valencia, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Madrid and Malaga airports totalling over $2.1M over the past few years. IAC Stopson has an excellent track record in the Spanish barriers market and IAC barriers undergo stringent testing at INTA – one of Spain’s most respected aerodynamics laboratories and all come supplied with full acoustic performance data. This latest blast barrier will be 413 metres long and 15 metres high. It will protect the airport service area from jet blast. Manufactured from 0.12”-thick galvanised steel sheet, the barrier will be painted in standard aeronautical colours of snow white and red and in line will be fitted with the corresponding warning lights. It will carry 160 red LEDs and be able to withstand temperatures of -40ºC to +55ºC. IAC barriers all match the norms for airport blast barriers as laid down by the ICAO, the International Civil Aviation Organisation. Coruna airport serves the pilgrimage City of Santiago de Compostela that receives around 2m passengers a year. For further information about Jet Blast Barriers to all global locations contact Gordon Edwards, General Manager, IAC Aviation on +44 (0)1962 873044
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Recently more than 30 of our new representatives completed training on the applications of IAC Products and Systems. All were invigorated by the experience of ‘Q-School’ and I believe they all have a better understanding of how our differentiation and leadership will help in meeting the needs of our customers.
IAC America recently completed a Noishield® Cladding Panel project for a new ‘SuperTarget®’ store in Coral Springs, Florida. 
With the help from the IAC America’s Engineering and Design team, after careful consideration and planning, the architect from KKE Architects and General Contractor, Sikon Construction, chose to utilize IAC Noishield® Cladding Panels.
IAC Noishield® Cladding Panels are manufactured from a 20 gauge perforated skin. The Noishield Cladding Panels are roll-formed to form 2.5”-thick acoustical panels, with NRC 1.05. The panels are available in galvanized steel or aluminium materials and can be powder coated in more than 100 colors, with smooth or textured finishes, to satisfy a variety of architectural applications.
The UK’s His Royal Highness the Earl of Wessex officially opened IAC-built state-of-the art facilities for the world famous Institute of Vibration and Sound Research (ISVR) in Southampton on the south coast last month.
The new $24 million purpose-built facility has been constructed on the University’s Highfield Campus. Part of the facility houses the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre – with an IAC Audiometric Suite, consisting of three large independent Test Rooms. Designed working alongside the ISVR’s preferred design team and built by IAC, this new facility will be used to further the ISVR developments in the field of Cochlear Implants.
‘This excellent new building provides specialist clinical facilities and new laboratories for ISVR’s new centre and will aid research related to human responses to sound and vibration, areas in which the University has an excellent global reputation,’ comments ISVR Director, Professor Steve Elliott.
The new 175,000 square foot Hilo Judiciary Complex in Hilo, Hawaii is being fitted with a NoiseLock V Acoustic Ceiling. 
The Noise-Lock V ceiling utilized more than 350 panels covering nearly 3,000 square feet of ceiling space throughout the mechanical rooms, control rooms and corridors. It featured a NRC of 0.95 and a STC 33 and a Class A fire rating.
IAC America’s online Rep ordering system for HVAC products is proving a huge success with a considerable increased throughput since the turn of the year. 
The manufacture of all equipment will be carried out at IAC UK’s Winchester production facility ready for installation and commissioning in Gothenburg by IAC Nordic by the end June 2008.
IAC America also attended the TC2 committee meeting during the Show to discuss the changes and updates for the new 2009 edition of the ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook, Sound and Vibration Section. Editor for this section is our own Jon Weinstein, Director of R&D.
General Electric Oil & Gas Division, formerly trading as Nuovo Pignone, placed an order in April last year with IAC Stopson Italy worth around $3.9M for the supply of three off-base, noise insulated enclosures. 
Coruna airport in Spain is to have a jet blast barrier designed, manufactured and installed by IAC’s Spanish subsidiary, IAC Stopson. 
Amadeo Garcés is IAC Stopson’s Project Manager: "Over the past few years we have really built up the barriers business based on a long list of satisfied customers.”
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