Western Sydney University – Marcs Institute
Client Brief
Design, manufacture and install twenty one audiology rooms, the single largest sum of rooms in one building in Australia. All rooms were for different purposes from studies on equipment to the testing of patients.
All rooms had different standards to which all were achieved.
The following standards were:
Australian Standards AS/NZS1269.4-2014, Occupational Noise Management Auditory Assessment.
Australian Standards ISO-8253-2-2009, Acoustic Audiometric Test Methods
RF attenuation to the below chart
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RF ROOMS ACCEPTANCE LEVELS |
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ELECTRICAL |
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FREQUENCY |
1kHz |
10kHz |
100kHz |
500kHz |
1MHz |
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EFFECTIVNESS |
50 dB |
50 dB |
50 dB |
50 dB |
50 dB |
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MAGNETIC |
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FREQUENCY |
1kHz |
10kHz |
100kHz |
500kHz |
1MHz |
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EFFECTIVNESS |
8 dB |
16 dB |
28 dB |
36 dB |
40 dB |
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PLANE WAVE |
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FREQUENCY |
50MHz |
100MHz |
200MHz |
400MHz |
1000MHz |
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EFFECTIVNESS |
48 dB |
40 dB |
36 dB |
18 dB |
16 dB |
All of the booths were installed during the fit out works on a major building site and all rooms achieved there required standards.
The Challenge
All of the planning was done remotely, over zoom, between Melbourne and Sydney. The main challenge faced was us not being able to see the site and environment in person due to COVID lockdown restrictions.
The Result
The result was 100% successful, with not one failure and we were also able to double the attenuation required in the RF rooms. Completed in February 2022 – the students were set to move in and carry out their studies in mid-March 2022. When you walk into one of these rooms with a mobile phone – the device will stop working the instant you close the door due to the RF, magnetic and electromagnetic attenuation.
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