All the noise about Acoustic doors

MIDDLE EAST: High security sections of Microsoft Dublins' new £400M Data Centre are the destination for IAC custom doors.

This is Microsofts' first Windows Live EMEA Data Center in Europe and it is under construction on the Grange Castle Business Park, 10 miles from Dublins' city centerIAC has fitted two pairs of high performance back-to-back doors prepared ready for security access card units to be fitted by Microsoft and one custom 3m high, single-leaf emergency exit door, as it shares in a press release.

IAC is undertaking this in conjunction with Gulf Acoustic LLC, their middle-eastern partner on this occasion. The seven of STC53 acoustic doors are being manufactured at IACs' European HQ in Winchester, UK.

Over one million door sets have been installed since IAC was founded in 1949. The company claims their use as solutions for hospitals, hotels, schools, shopping centres, offices, broadcasting studios, nightclubs, museums, test cells, labs, plant rooms, printing plants, factory doors and power stations. Buildings all across the UK and in the Middle East number are some of the claimed latest projects.

Six acoustic doors are being manufactured for the ground floor radio studios at BBC Cambridge and BBC Media City Salford Quays Manchester is also going for special custom doors in manufacture at present.

The company adds that on the industrial front, eight IAC acoustic doors for the offices of Polish can-making giant, Can-Pack. Their massive newly-built factory in Scunthorpe, north-east England will turn out a staggering 2 billion 44cl cans a year for the British market. IAC acoustic doors are also in place in Audiology Suites in hospitals, and in Radio and TV studios around the world.