QuietWave®
Acoustic Solutions You Can Trust
dedicated project manager
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Manufactured in Australia
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Dedicated Project Manager
You'l be assigned an engineer consultant/project manager exclusively for your project. This is to encourage a personalised experience to help you get the best end result.
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From Design, Supply & Installation to Final Certification, we've got you covered!
Manufactured in Australia
With Acoustica Projects, you can enjoy peace of mind knowing we utilise only the best products for the job & that all are proudly manufactured in Australia.
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Description
QuietWave® assists in noise control and dampens sound vibration, which decreases the amount of sound transmission between the affected areas. QuietWave® acoustic plasterboard barrier is the most economic acoustic wall system available. The thinnest and lightest way to achieve the highest acoustic performance, QuietWave® is a class above minimum NCC requirements.
Applications
- Multi-residential walls
- Retrofits
- High confidentiality partition wall systems (for lawyers and doctors offices)
- Commercial walls and ceilings
- Improving existing partition wall and ceiling performance
- Sole occupancy unit dividing walls
- Boardroom and office division walls
- Partition wall systems to block out confidential conversations
key benefits
- Exceeds the Building Code of Australia (BCA) minimum requirements
- Can achieve the highest AAAC acoustic rating of 6 stars
- Thinnest and lightest possible wall system for the highest acoustic rating
- Most economical 6-star rating wall system available
- Effective for low frequencies to counter everyday noise from home audio and theatre systems
- Easily penetrated without compromising performance, a finished QuietWave® wall is solid and has similar resonance to masonry
- At just 1.2 mm thick QuietWave® provides a saving of 50% in the width of the wall against a comparable 6-star wall system and can be easily installed by just one person.
features
- QuietWave® technology is incorporated into Acoustica Projects’ range of acoustic products for walls, partitions, floors, ceilings and pipe lagging
- Consists of a flexible visco-elastic membrane and patented constrained layer membrane, combined with vibration damping material
- Group 1 fire rating
- Low VOC - less than a recognised threshold of 0.5mg for Green Star
- Maximum acoustic rating, thin and light profile
- Save costs and increase space
- Specifically designed for plasterboard walls - controls low frequencies and upper-mid frequencies which typically occur in plasterboard walls
- Standard roll size — 1.3m x 5.4m
- QuietWave® thickness — 1.2mm
standards fire rating
VOC Emissions
VOC emissions: low VOC <5.0mg
Scores & Test Results
Acoustic Performance Index – the cost of the wall compared to acoustic performance, wall thickness and floor space cost. When Acoustica Projects’ concept of Acoustic Performance Index is applied to the QuietWave® wall system, the score is extremely high. The QuietWave® wall system is only 148mm wide and has an acoustic performance that can ONLY be matched by the best wall system at 280-300mm wide.
System 1 = QuietWave® sandwiched with 6.5mm plasterboard on both sides of a stud wall + 14kg/m3 insulation. Rw + Ctr = 41dB
System 2 = QuietWave® sandwiched with 13mm standard plasterboard on both sides of a stud wall + 14kg/m3 insulation. Rw + Ctr = 46dB
System 3 = QuietWave® sandwiched with 13mm Fyrchek plasterboard on both sides of a stud wall + 14kg/m3 insulation. Rw + Ctr = 51dB
Test
1. Wilkinson Murray
Description
Doc. PD 200813 QuietWave® sandwiched between 2 x 13mm plasterboard
Rw
38 (Ctr -2)
Test
2. Sebastian Giglio
Description
Doc. 204335/D01a 2 x 13mm plasterboard panels
Rw
33 (Ctr -2)
Test
3. PKA Acoustic Consulting
Description
Doc. 204 202 R01 148mm staggered stud wall with QuietWave® sandwiched between 2 x 13mm plasterboard on both sides of the stud
Rw
63 (Ctr-7)
Construction & Installation
Acoustica Projects / Acoustica Projects Newcastle
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Our talented project managers have over 100 years combined sound proofing experience.
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We have experience working on a diverse range of projects and whether it be for your walls, floors ceilings, studios, meeting rooms, restaurants, sports halls and schools we can get it done! If you are a sound technician, or in the acoustics business or you are a novice we are happy to work with you and guide you on how soundproofing and noise reduction can help you!
