| Putting inplant offices within industrial areas is a | | | | If you have an existing drop grid ceiling tile system |
| common practice as it helps shelter employees from | | | | inside your Inplant Office, simply rest these Ceiling |
| temperature extremes, dust and sometimes noise. | | | | Caps atop your existing ceiling tiles to help place an |
| Depending upon your industrial environment, the inplant | | | | acoustic "lid" over your room and combat the plant |
| office's construction, whether modular or site built, may | | | | noise spilling in through your ceiling. |
| or may not provide you with enough protection from | | | | If you are unable to add dB-Bloc to your walls and |
| unwelcome noise. | | | | frame them out, consider a custom cut set of QBV |
| If your industrial inplant office is far too noisy, don't | | | | blankets to simply free hang against your common |
| despair, there are soundproofing treatments that work. | | | | walls. The blankets are portable and can trigger 12-15 |
| Ideally, to block sound, one would want to enclose the | | | | dB drops. |
| noise source rather than treat the path or recipient of | | | | By properly applying the formula of "disconnection + |
| noise. However, in industrial situations this is not always | | | | density" to the walls and ceiling of your inplant office, |
| possible. The next best solution is to line the common | | | | you can reasonably expect to trigger an average |
| surfaces of your inplant office with what is called the | | | | 12-14 dB drop inside the office. Results will vary |
| density+ disconnection formula. The goal is to block the | | | | depending on a variety of issues such as original dB |
| transmission of sound from bleeding through a | | | | levels, frequency of the noise source, structural |
| common wall or impair the wall's ability to conduct | | | | transmission through the floor, and airborne leaks |
| vibration. This is accomplished by adding two | | | | through doors, windows, vents, fans, etc. |
| components to your wall assembly; the first is density, | | | | Most sound control products range in price from $2 to |
| the second is disconnection. The combination can | | | | $14 per square foot. The cost associated with your |
| force the collapse of sound waves and trigger up to a | | | | project will clearly depend on the strategy you |
| 90 percent drop in sound transmission. | | | | implement, the size of your facility, the strength of your |
| To do this you can use dB-Bloc, ceiling caps and QBV | | | | noise source, and so on. There is no way to predict in |
| blankets. The dB-Blocks line the walls or your existing | | | | advance what your treatment will go for, but |
| office with this mass loaded vinyl. You can apply a set | | | | protecting your employees work environment and |
| of horizontal firring strips or resilient channels, and sheet | | | | increasing their productivity is well worth the |
| rock over the entire assembly. | | | | investment. |