Case Studies

When Toyota manufacturing plants in Indiana and Illinois faced recent noise control concerns in their testing process, they looked to IAC Acoustics, whom they had successfully worked with in other factories across the country in the past, to provide a solution.

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QuietStar Industries designed and installed a 3-sided IAC Noishield Regular wall using galvanized construction and panels having an STC 40 and NRC 0.95.

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IAC Noise-Lock® doors were installed because of their guaranteed in-field noise reduction. The challenge for the door design was full glass vision panels and double leaf configurations.

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During Phase I in 2008, WNYC, America’s flagship National Public Radio station, moved out of their previous home of 50 years and relocated their radio station to a Tribeca warehouse where they turned their studio into a state-ofthe-art broadcast center. With the help of IAC technical representative Quiet-Star Industries, IAC provided (40) Noise-Lock® STC 51 doors and (40) STC 57 Noise-Lock® windows for this phase.

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IAC completed a turn-key project was for Mando America, a company who provides “the most important parts for car chassis and other parts that determine the performance of cars”.

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IAC completed a turn-key “state-of-the-art” Research and Development Center for Cummins Power Generation. The new anechoic chamber included one hemi-anechoic chamber, one reverberation room, one engine test cell, one control room and one preparation area for Cummins at their manufacturing and testing plant in Fridley, Minnesota.

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IAC Acoustics was contracted by AMD in Austin, Texas to design, manufacture, deliver, install, test and certify a custom hemi-anechoic chamber and control room for testing computer cooling fans to be utilized in their new high end workstations. AMD’s test facility is located no more than a stone’s throw away from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

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IAC Acoustics was contracted by the B.R. Fries Construction Company to design, to fabricate and to install six Accutone™2 series translation booths for their digital recording studio located in the heart of Manhattan overlooking the Empire State Building.

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IAC supplied more than twenty Noise-Lock® sound control door assemblies for Talking House Studios in the heart of San Francisco. The acoustically and aesthetically unique recording studio consists of a large SSL Mix room, two small Edit/Mix suites with dedicated isolation booths and a single share live room.

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The IAC Noise-Lock® sound control doors has made a significant contribution to the nation’s first ever “green”independent film studio facility, Second Line Stages. Second Line States was built to comply with the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Silver certification standard, which is awarded to structures that achieve superior environmental performance.

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IAC completed a project in Carmel, Indiana at The Palladium Performing Arts Center, considered to be one of the finest acoustical venues ever built in North America. The hall will be used to present all forms of classical music.

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The intent was to optimize the recording area space while maintaining the highest level of noise isolation between rooms. It was a perfect fit for IAC’s AccuTone™ 2 Broadcast Series Rooms and Noise-Lock® components.

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IAC’s line of Noise-Lock® doors recently learned a new song. The main recording room of a new multimedia studio at the Honolulu Community College required a door with STC 55 performance and a double wide 6‘-0” x 7’-0” clear opening, granting oversize musical instruments and equipment access to the recording area

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IAC Noise-Lock® side lites, IAC Noise-Lock® glass transom panels, IAC Noishield® solid transom panels, IAC VisionWall®, and of course IAC Noise-Lock® doors...so what does this concert of IAC components have in common?

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The Art Institute of California-San Francisco teaches students theoretical concepts as well as technical skills. Individuals who want to pursue an Audio Production degree are interested in the field of audio engineering and production.

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IAC Acoustics supplied and installed a Noishield® FS/S sound barrier for PG&E in San Francisco, California. IAC Acoustics provided complete turn-key services including the design, engineering, foundations, structural support steel, panels, and installation.

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AC Acoustics FS/S Noishield® louvered sound barrier systems are designed to protect the communities against noise generated by air condensers, pumps, chillers, fans and compressors where restricted airflow caused by an all solid barrier is a concern.

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NSTAR is the largest Massachusetts based, investor own edelectric and gas utility. NSTAR transmits and delivers energy to 1.1 million electricity customers in 81 communities and also nearly 300,000 gas customers. The transformers in this substation were operating at a noise level that exceeded the regulating noise ordinance.

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For a second time IAC Acoustics supplied and installed Noishield® FS/S sound barrier panels for Pacific Gas &Electric (PG&E), only this time in Gustine, California.

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Stanford University’s James H. Clark Research &Educational Facility consists of three buildings that face one another with an amphitheater in the center. There were classes conducted on all three floors of each building as well as the amphitheater, restaurant and a coffee shop.

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