Building Products for a

Sustainable Future

A Revolution in Acoustic Dry Wall Construction

Environmental Impact

Reduction of 20,500,000 tonnes of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Saving of 10,100,000 m3 water (20 times Sydney Harbour)

In their paper Sustainable Product Development: Furniture and Building Products, the RMIT University outlined the key design strategies for building products

Key Design Strategies for Building Products

Manufacturers and suppliers of Building Products are responding to local environmental concerns. Socially aware companies are looking at the life-cycle impacts of their products to evaluate the direction for process and product improvement.

These responsible manufacturers design their products for resource conservation and low impact use.

Designing for Resource Conservation

- Use of the minimum amount of material required for the function

- Use of renewable materials

- Avoiding the use of any materials that deplete natural resources

- Using recycled and recyclable materials

- Use of waste by-products

Designing for Low impact use

- Use materials that are easily recycled or reused

- Avoiding materials made from toxic or hazardous substances

- The non use of ozone depleting substances

At Acoustic Space our engineers and chemists have developed a revolutionary membrane system for acoustic insulation for use in dry wall systems.

In developing their QuietWave® acoustic membrane, Acoustic Space has adhered to the foregoing environmental, design strategies. The result is the development of a sustainable product - QuietWave® Plasterboard composite for higher levels of environmental performance from design through to a quite living environment.

The use of QuietWave® has enabled the construction of a dry wall system with the highest acoustic rating with the smallest possible footprint and lightest weight.

RESOURCE CONSERVATION

“Use of the minimum amount of materials required for function”

A 1mm thick QuietWave® membrane sandwiched between two layers of plasterboard on each wall face replaces 30kg/m2 of plasterboard and achieves more Sound Transmission Loss (STL) than any other dry wall system with a saving of 30-50% in thickness.

AAAC Six Star Performance

The QuietWave® wall system achieves the highest possible acoustic rating of Rw+Ctr = 55 with the smallest possible footprint for a dry wall system.

Eliminate bulky Fibreglass cavity insulation for more greenhouse savings - 1kg of CO2 for every m2 of wall and exceed AAAC five Star Performance for attached dwellings with a Rw+Ctr = 52 rating.

LOW IMPACT USE

“Use of renewable, recycled, recyclable materials and waste by-products”

QuietWave® visco-elastic membrane is made from natural organic materials including a waste by-product from bio-diesel. 
 

MANUFACTURING IMPACTS

Less embodied Energy

QuietWave® has very low embodied energy with savings of 37 kWh/m2 (37kg of CO2/m2) of wall.

Less use of Water

Water savings of > 18 Litres of water/m2 of wall built.
Global savings of 10,100,000,000 litres per year.

Distribution Impacts
Less Transport Energy

Save up to 30% on transport costs with weight and volume saving 
of composite QuietWave® plasterboard for superior acoustic 
performance to alternative dry wall systems.

Disposal impacts

Less land fill

Savings of 4kg/m2 of wall built 
(12% of landfill is plasterboard)

More embodied energy savings 
in building structures

Less building weight

Therefore less embodied energy in building 
materials used (concrete and reinforcing steel)

Sustainable Product Development - QuietWave® Plasterboard composite for higher levels of environmental performance from design through manufacture to the quite living environment.

QuietWave® an acoustic wall system that delivers more Sound Transmission Loss (STL) than any other dry wall construction method.

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