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