SPEEDPANEL. Fire & Acoustic Rated Wall Systems. Speedpanel. Intertenancy systems SPEEDPANEL

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1 SPEEDPANEL R Fire & Acoustic Rated Wall Systems Speedpanel Intertenancy systems 3 SPEEDPANEL

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3 CONTENTS 51mm Speedpanel Intertenancy System 04 Wall Type: 22D 05 Footprint 187mm FRL -/60/60 Rw + Ctr 50 Report mm Speedpanel Intertenancy System 14 Wall Type: 21F 15 Footprint 177mm FRL -/90/90 Rw + Ctr 51 Report mm Speedpanel Intertenancy System 28 Wall Type: 20B 29 Footprint 191mm FRL -/120/120 Rw + Ctr 50 Report SPEEDPANEL

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5 51mm Speedpanel Intertenancy System Wall Type: 22D Footprint 187mm FRL -/60/60 Rw + Ctr 50 Report SPEEDPANEL

6 SPEEDPANEL R DRAWING No: - REV: - DATE: - SHEET - OF - TITLE: 22D * For full instrallation details please always refer to our certification & assessments located on the Speedpanel DRAWN BY: - website: ref. P:\CAD Database\Sales_Marketing_Engineering\Brochures\Intertenancy Brochure 5th Edition\referenced images\22d_21f_20b_details_v1.dwg SPEEDPANEL 5

7 RMIT University Building 1 Level 1 Room La Trobe Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia GPO Box 2476V Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia Tel Fax REPORT ON THE DETERMINATION OF AIRBORNE SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS IN ONE-THIRD OCTAVE BANDS AND WEIGHTED SOUND REDUCTION INDEX (R w ) OF A 187MM SPEEDPANEL WALL SYSTEM INCORPORATING 51MM THICK SPEEDPANEL Testing Procedure: AS Testing Laboratory: Client: Applied Acoustics Laboratory RMIT University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia NATA Accreditation Number 1421 Speedpanel Pty. Ltd Canterbury Rd Kilsyth, Victoria 3137 Australia Date of Test: 13 th June 2012 Date of Report: 27 th August 2012 Report Number: Testing Officer: 121I/12-101/PD Peter Dale Peter Dale Approved NATA Signatory This document issued in compliance with NATA s accreditation requirements. Accredited for compliance with ISO/IEC SPEEDPANEL

8 REPORT ON THE DETERMINATION OF AIRBORNE SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS IN ONE-THIRD OCTAVE BANDS AND WEIGHTED SOUND REDUCTION INDEX (R w ) OF A 187MM SPEEDPANEL WALL SYSTEM INCORPORATING 51MM THICK SPEEDPANEL 1. INTRODUCTION The test described in this report was carried out at the request of Speedpanel Pty Ltd to determine the airborne sound transmission loss and the weighted sound transmission index (R w ) of a 187mm Speedpanel Wall System (750kg) incorporating 51mm thick Speedpanel. The test has been carried out using the pair of sound transmission rooms of the School Of Electrical And Computer Engineering, RMIT University. The sample under test is mounted in the vertical aperture between a reverberant source room and a reverberant receiving room. The sound pressure level difference resulting between these two rooms when a sound source operates in the source room is used in conjunction with the surface area of the sample and the equivalent absorption area of the receiving room to determine the airborne sound transmission loss of the sample. Testing has been carried out in accordance with Australian Standard , Acoustics: Method for Laboratory Measurement of Airborne Sound Transmission Loss of Building Partitions. The weighted sound transmission index (R w ) has been determined as specified in AS/NZS ISO Acoustics Rating of sound insulation in buildings and of building elements, Part I: Airborne Sound Insulation. The measuring facilities and method have been accredited by the National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia (NATA) Accreditation No. 1421, and testing has been conducted fully in accordance with those terms of accreditation. 2. TEST FACILITIES The sound transmission suite consists of a reverberant source room volume of cubic metres and a reverberant receiving room of volume cubic metres. Both rooms have an irregular geometry featuring a pentagonal floor plan with no two walls parallel, and with nonparallel floors and ceilings. The rooms are constructed of 305mm reinforced concrete, supported on laminated-rubber isolators, and acoustically de-coupled from one another by a 50mm closed cell polyurethane gasket. The irregular room shape has been chosen to assist in the production of diffuse sound fields. Such diffuseness is further enhanced: (a) In the receiving room by the inclusion of nine fixed non-rectangular panels, suspended in the room with random orientation. Six panels each have an area of 1.44 square metres and three each have an area of 1.67 square metres. The total one-sided area of these panel diffusers is square metres, being 55.7% of that of the largest single boundary surface (the ceiling). (b) In the source room by inclusion of nine fixed non-rectangular polyvinyl chloride panels suspended in the room with random orientation. Four panels each have an area 1.86 square metres, the other five each have an area 1.24 square metres. The total one-sided area of these panel diffusers is square metres, being 56.5% of that of the largest single boundary surfaces (the ceiling). SPEEDPANEL 7

9 The average sound absorption coefficient of the diffusers and the internal surfaces of the rooms is below 0.06 in each test frequency band. 3. EQUIPMENT The equipment used in performing this test is listed below. Equipment Name Description Lap Top Computer Manuf. By Dell: 1.6GHz Intel Pentium, 591MHz GB RAM S/N: X Pulse LabShop Version 10 Software Bruel & Kjaer Pulse Hardware Interface Bruel & Kjaer Type 3560B-030 S/N: Measuring Amplifier Bruel & Kjaer Type 2610 S/N Microphone 1 Bruel & Kjaer Type 4192 S/N Microphone 2 Bruel & Kjaer Type 4192 S/N Microphone 3 Bruel & Kjaer Type 4192 S/N Microphone 4 Bruel & Kjaer Type 4192 S/N Microphone Preamplifier 1 GRAS Type 26AK S/N Microphone Preamplifier 2 GRAS Type 26AK S/N Microphone Preamplifier 3 GRAS Type 26AK S/N Microphone Preamplifier 4 GRAS Type 26AK S/N Microphone Power Supply 1 Bruel & Kjaer Type 2804 S/N Microphone Power Supply 2 Bruel & Kjaer Type 2804 S/N Amplifier Playmaster Pro Speakers Lorantz Audio Fortin Standard Barometer Casella London 3054 Whirling Hygrometer Dobbie Bros Australia, S/N: NA 4. PROCEDURES Testing has been conducted in accordance with the methods of AS1191:2002 Acoustics: Method for Laboratory Measurement of Airborne Sound Transmission Loss of Building Partitions. Random noise is fed to a single loudspeaker placed in a corner of the source room. In each one-third octave band of centre frequency 80Hz to 5000Hz, the mean sound pressure level in each room is found by the use of microphones connected to a Bruel & Kjaer Pulse Analyser. Eight independent locations of the microphone are used in each room, with the signals temporally averaged for the sampling time of 64 seconds. The equivalent absorption area of the receiving room is determined by measurement of the reverberation time in each one-third octave band. A loudspeaker is placed in one corner of the receiving room and 10 decays are obtained at each of the eight microphone positions, between 100Hz and 5000Hz. The microphone signal is relayed via a microphone amplifier, to the Bruel & Kjaer Pulse Analyser. The analyser is interfaced to a personal computer. A program running on the personal computer allows the determination of the reverberation time from the sound decays in accordance with AS ISO 354: Acoustics: Measurements of Sound Absorption in a Reverberation Room. The measuring equipment has been calibrated by an external accredited calibration laboratory, and is in current calibration. 8 SPEEDPANEL

10 5. SAMPLE DECRIPTION 5.1 Details of Sample under Test: The wall comprised of 51mm Speedpanel core wall with a total nominal density of 750 kg/m 3 The Speedpanel core was mounted in a C section perimeter frame that was fixed to the test aperture using Ramset gun. Once the Speedpanel was installed the Receive Room face was sealed around the perimeter using a fire rated sealant. Appendix 1 contains further details regarding the construction of Speedpanel. Send Room: Faced with a single layer of standard 13mm plasterboard mounted on 16mm steel channel screw fixed to the Speedpanel core at 600mm spacing. The plasterboard was screw fixed at 600mm centres on to the channel. Receive Room: 64mm steel track and stud frame (@ 600mm centres) installed 30mm from the Speedpanel. This provided a 94 mm internal wall cavity that was filled with filled with Tontine Acoustisorb 2 (100mm polyester insulation with a nominal density of 32kg/m 3 ). The wall was then sheeted with 13mm standard plasterboard. The plasterboard was screw fixed to the frame at 600mm centres. The perimeter and the plasterboard junctions of both faces of the wall were stopped with plasterboard stopping compound. The total wall width was 187mm Dimensions of Sample: 3.75m x 2.85m Size of Sample: 10.69m 2 Nominal Wall Thickness 187mm Nominal Surface Density: 61.3kg/m 2 Figure 1 below details the construction details for the wall. Figure 1: Schematic Diagram of 187mm Speedpanel Wall System comprising: 51mm Speedpanel Core (750kg) Send Room: 16mm furring channel with 13mm std plasterboard, Receive Room: 30mm air gap, 64mm stud with 13mm std plasterboard, Infill: Acoustisorb 2 (32kg/m3 Poly@100mm) SPEEDPANEL 9

11 6. RESULTS The measured airborne sound transmission loss, R db, at each one-third octave bandwidth of centre frequencies between 80Hz 5000Hz is given in tabular form to the nearest decibel. The Weighted Sound Reduction Index (R w ) reference curve, in each one-third octave bandwidth of centre frequencies between 100Hz and 3150Hz are expressed in tabular form and are also represented graphically for the sample tested. There are no significant errors in transmission loss values due to flanking transmission, filler wall or background noise. The Weighted Sound Reduction Index of the sample is determined in accordance with AS/NZS ISO The precision in the results is expressed as the 95% confidence interval in the determined sound transmission loss. The K value used to determine the 95% confidence interval is This interval is estimated from the 95% confidence interval in each of the average source room level, the average receiving room level and the receiving room absorption/surface area of sample. These values are included in the table of results. At the request of the client the sound transmission loss has also been determined in the 80Hz one third octave band. The 80Hz band is outside the laboratory s accredited measurement range for AS 1191 and is not an accredited measurement. 6.1 Sample - Test Conditions Temperature: Receive Room : C. Send Room : C. Humidity: Receive Room : 53%. Send Room : 49%. Sample Surface Area: m 2 Room Volumes: Receive room : m 3. Send Room : m SPEEDPANEL

12 6.2 Sound Transmission Loss Results and Weighted Sound Reduction Index R w : The Weighted Sound Reduction Index of the test sample is: R w (C; C tr ) = 57(-3;-7) db. Based on laboratory measurements. Rating determined in accordance with AS/NZS ISO Table 1: Table of results for: Speedpanel Wall System comprising: 51mm Speedpanel Core (750kg) Send Room: 16mm furring channel with 13mm std plasterboard, Receive Room: 30mm air gap, 64mm stud with 13mm std plasterboard, Infill: Acoustisorb 2 (32kg/m3 Poly@100mm) 1/3 Octave Centre Frequency Hz Sound Transmission Loss : R db R w 57 Reference Curve 80* % Confidence levels, db. *At the request of the client the 80Hz R value has been included. This measurement is outside the laboratories accredited measurement range for AS 1191 and is not an accredited measurement. SPEEDPANEL 11

13 Chart 1: Graph of results for Speedpanel Wall System comprising: 51mm Speedpanel core (750kg) Send Room: 16mm furring channel with 13mm std plasterboard, Receive Room: 30mm air gap, 64mm stud with 13mm std plasterboard, Infill: Acoustisorb 2 (32kg/m3 Poly@100mm) 70.0 Sound Transmission Loss (db) 60.0 Sound Reduction Index (R-dB) Speedpanel Wall System comprising: 51mm Speedpanel core (750kg) Send Room: 16mm furring channel with 13mm std plasterboard, Receive Room: 30mm air gap, 64mm stud with 13mm std plasterboard, Infill: Acoustisorb 2 (32kg/m3 Poly@100mm) Rw 57 Reference Curve /3 Octave Centre Band Freq (Hz) 12 SPEEDPANEL

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15 64mm Speedpanel Intertenancy System Wall Type: 21F Footprint 177mm FRL -/90/90 Rw + Ctr 51 Report SPEEDPANEL

16 SPEEDPANEL R DRAWING No: - REV: - DATE: - SHEET - OF - TITLE: 21F * For full instrallation details please always refer to our certification & assessments located on the Speedpanel DRAWN BY: website: ref. P:\CAD Database\Sales_Marketing_Engineering\Brochures\Intertenancy Brochure 5th Edition\referenced images\22d_21f_20b_details_v1.dwg - SPEEDPANEL 15

17 RMIT University Building 1 Level 1 Room La Trobe Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia GPO Box 2476V Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia Tel Fax REPORT ON THE DETERMINATION OF AIRBORNE SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS IN ONE-THIRD OCTAVE BANDS AND WEIGHTED SOUND REDUCTION INDEX (R w ) OF A 177MM SPEEDPANEL WALL SYSTEM WITH BULKHEADS AND UTILITY PENETRATIONS INCORPORATING A 64MM SPEEDPANEL CORE WITH A 750KG/M 3 AERATED CONCRETE INFILL Testing Procedure: AS Testing Laboratory: Client: Applied Acoustics Laboratory RMIT University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia NATA Accreditation Number 1421 Speedpanel Pty. Ltd Canterbury Rd Kilsyth, Victoria 3137 Australia Date of Test: 30 th of July 2012 Date of Report: 24 th of October 2012 Report Number: Testing Officer: /PD Peter Dale Peter Dale Approved NATA Signatory Accredited for compliance with ISO/IEC SPEEDPANEL

18 REPORT ON THE DETERMINATION OF AIRBORNE SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS IN ONE-THIRD OCTAVE BANDS AND WEIGHTED SOUND REDUCTION INDEX (R w ) OF A 177MM SPEEDPANEL WALL SYSTEM WITH BULKHEADS AND UTILITY PENETRATIONS INCORPORATING A 64MM SPEEDPANEL CORE WITH A 750KG/M 3 AERATED CONCRETE INFILL 1. INTRODUCTION The test described in this report was carried out at the request of Speedpanel Pty. Ltd. to determine the airborne sound transmission loss and the weighted sound transmission index of a 177mm Speedpanel Wall System with bulkheads and penetrations on either side incorporating 64mm thick Speedpanel Core (Aerated 750kg/m 3 ). Testing has been carried out in accordance with Australian Standard , Acoustics: Method for Laboratory Measurement of Airborne Sound Transmission Loss of Building Partitions. The weighted sound transmission index (R w ) has been determined as specified in AS/NZS ISO Acoustics Rating of sound insulation in buildings and of building elements, Part I: Airborne Sound Insulation. The test has been carried out using the pair of sound transmission rooms of the School Of Electrical And Computer Engineering, RMIT University. The sample under test is mounted in the vertical aperture between a reverberant Send Room and a reverberant Receive Room. The sound pressure level difference resulting between these two rooms when a sound source operates in the Send Room is used in conjunction with the surface area of the sample and the equivalent absorption area of the Receive Room enables determination the airborne sound transmission loss of the sample. At the request of the Client, the 80Hz Transmission Loss (R) value has been included in the Table of Results (Table 1). This measurement is outside the laboratories accredited measurement range for AS 1191 and is not an accredited measurement. The measuring facilities and method have been accredited by the National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia (NATA) Accreditation No. 1421, and testing has been conducted fully in accordance with those terms of accreditation. 2. TEST FACILITIES The sound transmission suite consists of a reverberant source room volume of cubic metres and a reverberant receiving room of volume cubic metres. Both rooms have an irregular geometry featuring a pentagonal floor plan with no two walls parallel, and with nonparallel floors and ceilings. The rooms are constructed of 305mm reinforced concrete, supported on laminated-rubber isolators, and acoustically de-coupled from one another by a 50mm closed cell polyurethane gasket. The irregular room shape has been chosen to assist in the production of diffuse sound fields. Such diffuseness is further enhanced: (a) In the Receive Room by the inclusion of nine fixed non-rectangular panels, suspended in the room with random orientation. Six panels each have an area of 1.44 square metres and three each have an area of 1.67 square metres. The total one-sided area of these panel SPEEDPANEL 17

19 diffusers is square metres, being 55.7% of that of the largest single boundary surface (the ceiling). (b) In the Send Room by inclusion of nine fixed non-rectangular polyvinyl chloride panels suspended in the room with random orientation. Four panels each have an area 1.86 square metres, the other five each have an area 1.24 square metres. The total one-sided area of these panel diffusers is square metres, being 56.5% of that of the largest single boundary surfaces (the ceiling). The average sound absorption coefficient of the diffusers and the internal surfaces of the rooms is below 0.06 in each test frequency band. 3. EQUIPMENT The equipment used in performing this test is listed below. Equipment Name Description Lap Top Computer Manuf. By Dell: 1.6GHz Intel Pentium, 591MHz GB RAM S/N: X Pulse LabShop Version 13 Software Bruel & Kjaer Pulse Hardware Interface Bruel & Kjaer Type 3560B-030 S/N: Measuring Amplifier Bruel & Kjaer Type 2610 S/N Microphone 1 Bruel & Kjaer Type 4192 S/N Microphone 2 Bruel & Kjaer Type 4192 S/N Microphone 3 Bruel & Kjaer Type 4192 S/N Microphone 4 Bruel & Kjaer Type 4192 S/N Microphone Preamplifier 1 GRAS Type 26AK S/N Microphone Preamplifier 2 GRAS Type 26AK S/N Microphone Preamplifier 3 GRAS Type 26AK S/N Microphone Preamplifier 4 GRAS Type 26AK S/N Microphone Power Supply 1 GRAS Type 12AR S/N: Microphone Power Supply 2 GRAS Type 12AR S/N: Amplifier Playmaster Pro Speakers Lorantz Audio Fortin Standard Barometer Casella London 3054 Whirling Hygrometer Dobbie Bros Australia, S/N: NA 4. PROCEDURES Testing has been conducted in accordance with the methods of AS1191:2002 Acoustics: Method for Laboratory Measurement of Airborne Sound Transmission Loss of Building Partitions. Random noise is fed to a single loudspeaker placed in a corner of the source room. In each one-third octave band of centre frequency 80Hz to 5000Hz, the mean sound pressure level in each room is found by the use of microphones connected to a Bruel & Kjaer Pulse Analyser. Eight independent locations of the microphone are used in each room, with the signals temporally averaged for the sampling time of 64 seconds. The equivalent absorption area of the Receive Room is determined by measurement of the reverberation time in each one-third octave band. A loudspeaker is placed in one corner of the receiving room and 10 decays are obtained at each of the eight microphone positions, between 100Hz and 5000Hz. The microphone signal is relayed via a microphone amplifier, to the Bruel & Kjaer Pulse Analyser. The analyser is interfaced to a personal computer. A program 18 SPEEDPANEL

20 running on the personal computer allows the determination of the reverberation time from the sound decays in accordance with AS ISO 354: Acoustics: Measurements of Sound Absorption in a Reverberation Room. The measuring equipment has been calibrated by an external accredited calibration laboratory, and is in current calibration. 5. SAMPLE DECRIPTION 5.1 Details of Sample under Test: The wall comprised of 64mm Speedpanel Core wall installed horizontally with a total nominal density of 750 kg/m 3. The Speedpanel core was mounted in a C section perimeter frame that was fixed to the test aperture using a Ramset gun. Once the Speedpanel was installed, the Receive Room face was sealed around the perimeter using a fire rated sealant. Appendix 1 contains further details regarding the construction of the 64mm Speedpanel Core and remains the propriety property of Speedpanel Pty. Ltd. Send Room: Standard 13mm plasterboard screw fixed on 16mm steel batons screw fixed at 600mm centres directly to the Speedpanel face. The plasterboard junctions and the perimeter of the plasterboard were sealed with a plaster stopping compound. Receive Room: 51mm steel track and stud with 600mm stud spacing mounted on 20mm from the Speedpanel face with 13mm wet area board screw fixed to the steel frame. The plasterboard was screw fixed to the frame at 600mm centres. The perimeter and the plasterboard junctions of the wall were stopped with stopping compound. The cavity was filled with 50mm thick glasswool 15kg/m 3 density. Thirteen millimetre standard plasterboard bulkheads were installed on the both faces of the wall and located adjacent to each other. Each face of the wall was then fitted with 3 GPOs, 1 light switch, 2 down lights and a 100mm x 150mm rectangular penetration. Note: Wall was oriented with the bulkhead along the far vertical length of the test aperture. This provided a3750mm section of bulkhead to be fitted on both wall faces. Dimensions of Sample: 3.75m x 2.85m Size of Sample: 10.69m 2 Nominal Wall Thickness 177mm Nominal Surface Density: 74.2kg/m 2 The sample was tested on the 30 th of July Figure 1 below details the construction details for the wall. Figures 2 and 3 show the installed wall system mounted into the Aperture for testing. SPEEDPANEL 19

21 Figure 1: Schematic Diagram of 177mm Speedpanel Wall System (excluding bulkheads) comprising: Drawing not to scale. Actual test wall was installed with the bulkheads along the vertical length of the test aperture (3750mm dimension). 20 SPEEDPANEL

22 Figure 2: The sample under test installed for testing as showing the bulkhead, electrical GPOs, switch and the bulkhead penetration. Figure 3: The sample under test installed for testing as depicted from the Receive Room showing the bulkhead, electrical GPOs, switch and the bulkhead penetration.. SPEEDPANEL 21

23 6. RESULTS The measured airborne sound transmission loss, R db, at each one-third octave bandwidth of centre frequencies between 80Hz 5000Hz is given in tabular form to the nearest tenth of a decibel. The Weighted Sound Reduction Index (R w ) Reference Curve, in each one-third octave bandwidth of centre frequencies between 100Hz and 3150Hz are expressed in tabular form and are also represented graphically for the sample tested. There are no significant errors in transmission loss values due to flanking transmission or filler wall. The measurements performed at 1250Hz, 1600Hz, 2000Hz and 5000Hz are at the measurement limit of the laboratory and has been corrected in accordance with the recommendations in AS Section 8.4. The Weighted Sound Reduction Index of the sample is determined in accordance with AS/NZS ISO The precision in the results is expressed as the 95% confidence interval in the determined sound transmission loss. The K value used to determine the 95% confidence interval is This interval is estimated from the 95% confidence interval in each of the average Send Room level, the average Receive Room level and the Receive Room absorption/surface area of sample. These values are included in the table of results. At the request of the client the sound transmission loss has also been determined in the 80Hz one third octave band. The 80Hz band is outside the laboratory s accredited measurement range for AS 1191 and is not an accredited measurement. 6.1 Sample - Test Conditions Temperature: Send Room : C. Receive Room : C. Humidity: Send Room : 47%. Receive Room : 47%. Sample Surface Area: m 2 Room Volumes: Send Room : m 3. Receive room : m SPEEDPANEL

24 6.2 Sound Transmission Loss Results and Weighted Sound Reduction Index R w : The Weighted Sound Reduction Index of the test sample is: R w (C; C tr ) = 59(-2;-8) db. Based on laboratory measurements. Rating determined in accordance with AS/NZS ISO Table 1: Table of results for a 177mm Speedpanel wall system comprising: 64mm Speedpanel Core wall (750kg) Send Room: Standard 13mm plasterboard on 16mm steel batons fixed directly to the Speedpanel face. Receive Room: 51mm steel track and stud with 600mm stud spacing mounted on 20mm from the Speedpanel face with 13mm wet area board screw fixed to the steel frame. Insulation 50mm 15kg/m 3. Bulkheads installed either face with electrical fittings, down-lights and bulkhead penetrations. 1/3 Octave Centre Frequency Hz Sound Transmission Loss : R db R w 59 Reference Curve 95% Confidence levels, db. 80* ^ ^ ^ ^ *At the request of the Client, the 80Hz R value has been included. This measurement is outside the laboratories accredited measurement range for AS 1191 and is not an accredited measurement. ^The measurements performed at 1250Hz, 1600Hz, 2000Hz and 5000Hz are at the measurement limit of the laboratory and has been corrected in accordance with the recommendations in AS Section 8.4. SPEEDPANEL 23

25 Chart 1: Graph of results for a 177mm Speedpanel wall system comprising: 64mm Speedpanel Core wall (750kg) Send Room: Standard 13mm plasterboard on 16mm steel batons fixed directly to the Speedpanel face. Receive Room: 51mm steel track and stud with 600mm stud spacing mounted on 20mm from the Speedpanel face with 13mm wet area board screw fixed to the steel frame. Insulation 50mm 14kg/m 3. Bulkheads installed either face with electrical fittings, down-lights and bulkhead penetrations. ^The measurements performed at 1250Hz, 1600Hz, 2000Hz and 5000Hz are at the measurement limit of the laboratory and has been corrected in accordance with the recommendations in AS Section SPEEDPANEL

26 APPENDIX 1 DETAILS OF SPEEDPANEL CORE 64mm Speedpanel: The bare panel comprised of a galvanized steel shell 0.35mm BMT, Surrounding an aerated concrete core. Concrete density is 750kg/m SPEEDPANEL 25

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29 78mm Speedpanel Intertenancy System Wall Type: 20B Footprint 191mm FRL -/120/120 Rw + Ctr 50 Report: SPEEDPANEL

30 SPEEDPANEL R DRAWING No: - REV: - DATE: - SHEET - OF - TITLE: 20B * For full instrallation details please always refer to our certification & assessments located on the Speedpanel DRAWN BY: - website: ref. P:\CAD Database\Sales_Marketing_Engineering\Brochures\Intertenancy Brochure 5th Edition\referenced images\22d_21f_20b_details_v1.dwg SPEEDPANEL 29

31 RMIT University Building 1 Level 1 Room La Trobe Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia GPO Box 2476V Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia Tel Fax REPORT ON THE DETERMINATION OF AIRBORNE SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS IN ONE-THIRD OCTAVE BANDS AND WEIGHTED SOUND REDUCTION INDEX (R w ) OF A 191MM SPEEDPANEL WALL SYSTEM WITH BULKHEADS, VENTILATION OPENING AND ELECTRICAL FITTINGS INSTALLED, INCORPORATING A 78MM SPEEDPANEL CORE WITH A 475KG/M 3 AERATED CONCRETE INFILL. Testing Procedure: AS Testing Laboratory: Client: Applied Acoustics Laboratory RMIT University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia NATA Accreditation Number 1421 Speedpanel Pty. Ltd Canterbury Rd Kilsyth, Victoria 3137 Australia Date of Test: 18 th June 2012 Date of Report: 13 th September 2012 Report Number: Testing Officer: /PD Peter Dale Peter Dale Approved NATA Signatory This document issued in compliance with NATA s accreditation requirements. Accredited for compliance with ISO/IEC SPEEDPANEL

32 REPORT ON THE DETERMINATION OF AIRBORNE SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS IN ONE-THIRD OCTAVE BANDS AND WEIGHTED SOUND REDUCTION INDEX (R w ) OF A 191MM SPEEDPANEL WALL SYSTEM WITH BULKHEADS, VENTILATION OPENING AND ELECTRICAL FITTINGS INSTALLED, INCORPORATING A 78MM SPEEDPANEL CORE WITH A 475KG/M 3 AERATED CONCRETE INFILL. 1. INTRODUCTION The test described in this report was carried out at the request of Speedpanel Pty. Ltd. to determine the airborne sound transmission loss and the weighted sound transmission index of a 191mm Speedpanel Wall System (475kg/m 3 ) incorporating 78mm thick Speedpanel Core with bulkheads installed on receive room and send room sides. The wall system was tested with electrical fittings and a bulkhead opening installed on both sides of the wall. Testing has been carried out in accordance with Australian Standard , Acoustics: Method for Laboratory Measurement of Airborne Sound Transmission Loss of Building Partitions. The weighted sound transmission index (R w ) has been determined as specified in AS/NZS ISO Acoustics Rating of sound insulation in buildings and of building elements, Part I: Airborne Sound Insulation. The test has been carried out using the pair of sound transmission rooms of the School Of Electrical And Computer Engineering, RMIT University. The sample under test is mounted in the vertical aperture between a reverberant Send Room and a reverberant Receive Room. The sound pressure level difference resulting between these two rooms when a sound source operates in the Send Room is used in conjunction with the surface area of the sample and the equivalent absorption area of the Receive Room enables determination the airborne sound transmission loss of the sample. At the request of the Client, the 80Hz Transmission Loss (R) value has been included in the Table of Results (Table 1). This measurement is outside the laboratories accredited measurement range for AS 1191 and is not an accredited measurement. The measuring facilities and method have been accredited by the National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia (NATA) Accreditation No. 1421, and testing has been conducted fully in accordance with those terms of accreditation. 2. TEST FACILITIES The sound transmission suite consists of a reverberant Send Room volume of cubic metres and a reverberant Receive Room of volume cubic metres. Both rooms have an irregular geometry featuring a pentagonal floor plan with no two walls parallel, and with nonparallel floors and ceilings. The rooms are constructed of 305mm reinforced concrete, supported on laminated-rubber isolators, and acoustically de-coupled from one another by a 50mm closed cell polyurethane gasket. The irregular room shape has been chosen to assist in the production of diffuse sound fields. Such diffuseness is further enhanced: (a) In the Receive Room by the inclusion of nine fixed non-rectangular panels, suspended in the room with random orientation. Six panels each have an area of 1.44 square metres and three each have an area of 1.67 square metres. The total one-sided area of these panel SPEEDPANEL 31

33 diffusers is square metres, being 55.7% of that of the largest single boundary surface (the ceiling). (b) In the Send Room by inclusion of nine fixed non-rectangular polyvinyl chloride panels suspended in the room with random orientation. Four panels each have an area 1.86 square metres, the other five each have an area 1.24 square metres. The total one-sided area of these panel diffusers is square metres, being 56.5% of that of the largest single boundary surfaces (the ceiling). The average sound absorption coefficient of the diffusers and the internal surfaces of the rooms is below 0.06 in each test frequency band. 3. EQUIPMENT The equipment used in performing this test is listed below. Equipment Name Description Lap Top Computer Manuf. By Dell: 1.6GHz Intel Pentium, 591MHz GB RAM S/N: X Pulse LabShop Version 13 Software Bruel & Kjaer Pulse Hardware Interface Bruel & Kjaer Type 3560B-030 S/N: Measuring Amplifier Bruel & Kjaer Type 2610 S/N Microphone 1 Bruel & Kjaer Type 4192 S/N Microphone 2 Bruel & Kjaer Type 4192 S/N Microphone 3 Bruel & Kjaer Type 4192 S/N Microphone 4 Bruel & Kjaer Type 4192 S/N Microphone Preamplifier 1 GRAS Type 26AK S/N Microphone Preamplifier 2 GRAS Type 26AK S/N Microphone Preamplifier 3 GRAS Type 26AK S/N Microphone Preamplifier 4 GRAS Type 26AK S/N Microphone Power Supply 1 Bruel & Kjaer Type 2804 S/N Microphone Power Supply 2 Bruel & Kjaer Type 2804 S/N Amplifier Playmaster Pro Speakers Lorantz Audio Fortin Standard Barometer Casella London 3054 Whirling Hygrometer Dobbie Bros Australia, S/N: NA 4. PROCEDURES Testing has been conducted in accordance with the methods of AS1191:2002 Acoustics: Method for Laboratory Measurement of Airborne Sound Transmission Loss of Building Partitions. Random noise is fed to a single loudspeaker placed in a corner of the Send Room. In each onethird octave band of centre frequency 80Hz to 5000Hz, the mean sound pressure level in each room is found by the use of microphones connected to a Bruel & Kjaer Pulse Analyser. Eight independent locations of the microphone are used in each room, with the signals temporally averaged for the sampling time of 64 seconds. 32 SPEEDPANEL

34 The equivalent absorption area of the Receive Room is determined by measurement of the reverberation time in each one-third octave band. A loudspeaker is placed in one corner of the Receive Room and 10 decays are obtained at each of the eight microphone positions, between 100Hz and 5000Hz. The microphone signal is relayed via a microphone amplifier, to the Bruel & Kjaer Pulse Analyser. The analyser is interfaced to a personal computer. A program running on the personal computer allows the determination of the reverberation time from the sound decays in accordance with AS ISO 354: Acoustics: Measurements of Sound Absorption in a Reverberation Room. The measuring equipment has been calibrated by an external accredited calibration laboratory, and is in current calibration. 5. SAMPLE DECRIPTION 5.1 Details of Sample under Test: The wall comprised of 78mm Speedpanel Core wall with a total nominal density of 475 kg/m 3 The Speedpanel core was mounted in a C section perimeter frame that was fixed to the test aperture using a Ramset gun. Once the Speedpanel was installed the Receive Room face was sealed around the perimeter using a fire rated sealant. Appendix 1 contains further details regarding the construction of the 78mm Speedpanel Core and remains the propriety property of Speedpanel Pty. Ltd.. Send Room: Faced with a single layer of standard 13mm plasterboard mounted on 16mm steel furring screw fixed to the Speedpanel core at 600mm spacing. The plasterboard was screw fixed at 600mm centres on to the channel. The perimeter and the plasterboard junctions of the wall were stopped with plasterboard stopping compound. Receive Room: 51mm steel track and stud frame (@ 600mm centres) installed 20mm from the Speedpanel. This provided a 71 mm internal wall cavity that was filled with filled with 90mm glasswool insulation with a nominal density of 22kg/m 3. The wall was then sheeted with 13mm standard plasterboard. The plasterboard was screw fixed to the frame at 600mm centres. The perimeter and the plasterboard junctions of the wall were stopped with plasterboard stopping compound. Bulkheads: 13mm standard plasterboard bulkheads were installed on both sides of the wall. The bulkheads were 145mm deep and 160mm wide and ran the full 3750mm of the test aperture vertical span. Both faces of the wall system were fitted with 3 standard double power points, 1 electrical switch, 2 open backed down lights mounted in the bulkhead and 1 vent opening in the bulkhead. The total wall width was 191mm. Dimensions of Sample: 3.75m x 2.85m Size of Sample: 10.69m 2 Nominal Wall Thickness 191mm Nominal Surface Density: 63.5kg/m 2 The testing was performed on June 18 th Figure 1 below details the construction details for the wall. Figures 2, 3 and 4 show the installed bulkhead and a close up view of the bulkhead respectively. SPEEDPANEL 33

35 Figure 1: Schematic Diagram of 191mm Speedpanel Wall System with light switches, downlights power-points and bulkhead penetration, comprising: 78mm Speedpanel Core wall (475kg) Send Room: 16mm furring channel with 13mm std plasterboard, Receive Room: 20mm air gap, 51mm stud with 13mm std plasterboard, Infill: Glasswool 90mm). 13mm plasterboard bulkheads installed on receive room and transmit room sides. Figure 2: The sample under test installed for testing as depicted from the Send Room before penetrations installed. 34 SPEEDPANEL

36 Figure 3: Installed bulkhead viewed from the receive room side bulkhead to the left of the wall construction and runs the entire vertical dimension of the Test Aperture before penetrations installed. Figure 4: Close up of installed bulkhead Bulkhead with vent penetration Wall installed in Aperture Receive Room Wall Boundary SPEEDPANEL 35

37 Figure 5: Penetration and fittings installed in wall for testing 36 SPEEDPANEL

38 6. RESULTS The measured airborne sound transmission loss, R db, at each one-third octave bandwidth of centre frequencies between 80Hz 5000Hz is given in tabular form to the nearest decibel. The Weighted Sound Reduction Index (R w ) reference curve, in each one-third octave bandwidth of centre frequencies between 100Hz and 3150Hz are expressed in tabular form and are also represented graphically for the sample tested. There are no significant errors in transmission loss values due to flanking transmission, filler wall or background noise. The Weighted Sound Reduction Index of the sample is determined in accordance with AS/NZS ISO The precision in the results is expressed as the 95% confidence interval in the determined sound transmission loss. The K value used to determine the 95% confidence interval is This interval is estimated from the 95% confidence interval in each of the average Send Room level, the average Receive Room level and the Receive Room absorption/surface area of sample. These values are included in the table of results. At the request of the client the sound transmission loss has also been determined in the 80Hz one third octave band. The 80Hz band is outside the laboratory s accredited measurement range for AS 1191 and is not an accredited measurement. 6.1 Sample - Test Conditions Temperature: Send Room : C. Receive Room : C. Humidity: Send Room : 51%. Receive Room : 51%. Sample Surface Area: m 2 Room Volumes: Send Room : m 3. Receive room : m 3. SPEEDPANEL 37

39 6.2 Sound Transmission Loss Results and Weighted Sound Reduction Index R w : The Weighted Sound Reduction Index of the test sample is: R w (C; C tr ) = 59(-3;-9) db. Based on laboratory measurements. Rating determined in accordance with AS/NZS ISO Table 1: Table of results for: 191mm Speedpanel Wall System with light switches, downlights power-points and bulkhead penetration, comprising: 78mm Speedpanel Core wall (475kg) Send Room: 16mm furring channel with 13mm std plasterboard, Receive Room: 20mm air gap, 51mm stud with 13mm std plasterboard, Infill: Glasswool (22kg/m3@ 90mm). 13mm plasterboard bulkheads installed on receive room and transmit room sides. 1/3 Octave Centre Frequency Hz Sound Transmission Loss : R db R w 59 Reference Curve 80* % Confidence levels, db. *At the request of the Client, the 80Hz R value has been included. This measurement is outside the laboratories accredited measurement range for AS 1191 and is not an accredited measurement. 38 SPEEDPANEL

40 Chart 1: Graph of results for 191mm Speedpanel Wall System with light switches, downlights power-points and bulkhead penetration, comprising: 78mm Speedpanel Core wall (475kg) Send Room: 16mm furring channel with 13mm std plasterboard, Receive Room: 20mm air gap, 51mm stud with 13mm std plasterboard, Infill: Glasswool 90mm). 13mm plasterboard bulkheads installed on receive room and transmit room sides. SPEEDPANEL 39

41 APPENDIX 1 DETAILS OF SPEEDPANEL CORE Speedpanel 78mm panels: (Aerated concrete core 475kg/m 3 density) 40 SPEEDPANEL

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44 SPEEDPANEL R Fire & Acoustic Rated Wall Systems