Case Studies

A renovation project on the Community College of Philadelphia campus included the construction of a new music studio space. Metropolitan Acoustics, the acoustical consultant and VSBA Architects & Planners specified the IAC products for both a new live room and control room. J.A. Brown, IAC’s exclusive representative in Pennsylvania, answered the call and provided a delivered and installed scope.

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Fisher Dynamics, an automotive seat manufacturer, needed to perform acoustic measurements with a low noise electrodynamic shaker by MB Dynamics. The measurement space performance requirements were very strict to capture small buzz, squeak, and rattle (BSR) noises from tested products under specific vibration excitation profiles.

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IAC Acoustics supplied a hemi-anechoic testing facility that met all the customer requirements for sound transmission loss, and acoustic absorption requirements.

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IAC Acoustics provides test cell for high-performance automotive testing within business campus

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IAC Acoustics was recently requested to replace wedges in a fully anechoic room for NASA at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. 

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IAC Acoustics recently provided a PlanarCHOIC Chamber for an HVAC component manufacturer who designs, engineers and manufactures residential and commercial fans and blowers for a diverse range of industries.

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Black Gold Harley-Davidson is a leading motorcycle dealer in Dallas, TX. In 2020, Black Gold was ready for a state-of-the-art Dyno test cell room to support the purchase of their Dynojet dynamometer system.

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Progress Rail, a Caterpillar Company, had an issue with locomotive engines that was two-fold: they needed noise reduction while still providing proper ventilation to the engines. They enlisted the help of IAC Acoustics to find a viable solution.

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In the spring of 2019, IAC Acoustics partnered with C. Erickson and Sons, Inc who had been contracted directly by the university to provide construction service related to the renovation of  University of the Arts (UArts) located in Center City, Philadelphia.

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IAC was there to provide our expertise as well as our worldclass Noise-Lock doors and windows. During the two-year design and planning phase, IAC worked closely with architects, Gensler, and acoustical consultants, The Sextant Group.

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In 2018, Test-Tech was ready for a state-of-the-art upgrade, and IAC Acoustics was there to help. IAC partnered with O’Neill Engineered Systems and Lube-Tech’s Engineering Manager, Denny Swanson, to meet the complex requirements of this multi-room dyno test facility.

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In an effort to comply with OSHA’s hearing conservation requirements, a national distribution center needed to reduce its employee noise exposure significantly. IAC Acoustics was there to help.

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IAC Acoustics recently completed a Noishield Cladding panel project for Target's Coral Springs Super-Store. A key consideration for Target's site development included shielding Coral Springs residents from loading dock noise.

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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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Anechoic Chamber

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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