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Australia's broadcaster, the ABC, has added extra dimension to their non-commercial facilities. Taking a total of 36 months to complete, the studio complex has a floor area of more than 24,000 square metres in one of the nations leading commercial districts.

Aside from the advanced technological needs of a modern day recording studio, silence is paramount, as is acoustic integrity. When recording engineers strut their stuff (so to speak), they insist that only the desired sound is laid to bed for on-air program transmission. The same principle applies to live recordings. This means that any external noise must be stopped, and internal noise must not reverberate in a manner that will distort the recorded tracks.

 

Pipework insulation was also included to ensure temperature efficiency in the hot water pipe system. Tontine's Insulwrap was the preferred choice and in all, 3000 lineal meters of pipe was insulated through the entire project.

 

Acoustic Engineer Arup Acoustics was commissioned to provide design expertise, specify and oversee the acoustic insulation requirements. Two key acoustic requirements for the studio insulation were set; to achieve high sound absorption coefficients from the material across a broad frequency range, and to ensure a guarantee of consistency of that sound absorption performance from the insulation product selected. Tontine Acoustisorb 2, with its small denier size satisfied these acoustic requirements and, being a polyester-based product, it displayed OH&S advantages for both installation and ongoing environmental aspects. 

In a number of instances, Tontine Insulation products were also used as a finishing surface due to their combined insulating and aesthetic qualities.