Acoustic Enclosures | Industrial & Plant Noise Reduction

 Industrial machinery

One of the main applications we see is the use of one or multiple acoustic enclosures in an industrial environment to mitigate noise. For example, some common examples are noise enclosures around turret punches (Omada etc), CNC machines, granulators & shredders at recycling facilities and large/fast moving machinery.

Whether it is working to reduce noise levels to below the threshold in an area of the factory allowing employees to pass without needing hearing protection, achieving Noise at Work requirements or to mitigate noise breakout to residential properties and conform to the environmental standards, AGS can assist. This can often go hand in hand with other noise control measures such as industrial partitions/noise screens.

A lot of our internal soundproof enclosures will be formed to include acoustic glazing for vision into the space, whether to identify fire risks, visible checks on operators or to take measurements from certain panels on the machinery.

Noisy HVAC equipment

Typically AGS find that, in particularly the summer months because a lot of people are outside or open their windows due to the high temperature, a lot of 'loud' air conditioning, fan coil units, blowers, heat pumps etc became more noticeable.

Often this plant noise if above the required noise levels can be mitigated with an appropriate barrier or enclosure. In this case an acoustic enclosure will reduce noise breakout as well as reduce the reverberation time within the soundproof enclosure because the interior face of AGS' panels is perforated, to give 'Class A absorption rating'.

We can follow best practice using all our years of experience however our preference is to work hand in hand with an acoustic consultant to ensure that our mitigation falls in line with a BS4142 Environmental Assessment. Not only does this ensure that we are installing the correct solution that'll work but also as proof that as a client you are conforming with the UK noise regulations.

Infrastructure projects

A number of our large projects include transformer bank enclosures where noise generated by these kits would otherwise exceed the noise levels. As for almost all our enclosures these will include high Rw doorsets for access and maintenance and thanks to our skilled site installation engineers, pipework penetrations into the enclosure do not compromise the structural or acoustic integrity of the enclosure through the use of 'split plates'.