Featured Projects and Industry Solutions

Transportation

Airports

Explosive growth of air travel has created dozens of busy airports, many serving as regional hubs. This welcome development for air travelers has been an unwelcome problem for people living in the pear-shaped takeoff and landing zone. Community noise problems have seriously curtailed expansive airport and airline industry ambitions. The solution: funded programs to abate noise.

The FAA funds Community Noise Programs to achieve noise contours of 65 dBA. Currently, these programs offer free soundproof windows and doors to homeowners, schools and houses of worship. This program is operating in all major and regional airports in the country. Between 1996 and 2003, the FAA program funded $1.6 billion of soundproofing construction. Between 2004-2009, an additional $1.3 billion will be funded.

Achieving high STC ratings for walls and ceilings has traditionally been too costly and risky – until now. Serious Energy's soundproofing solutions offers airport community program professionals a complete line of high-performance products to soundproof walls and ceilings.

Cars

Quiet is a mark of luxury in all consumer and commercial passenger vehicles. The difference in noise level between a $15,000 and $75,000 automobile is as much as 30 dBA at highway speeds.

Most new cars have standard sound packages; on high-end cars, that could include laminated glass and steel. On most cars, the sound package includes mats, pads and undercoating. Federal government EPA and CAFÉ goals force car manufacturers to find lightweight noise control material.

Using next generation viscoelastic polymer technology from Serious Energy, manufacturers, after-market converters and owners can achieve luxury car levels of quiet with a fraction of the bulk, weight and cost of traditional technologies.

QuietCar is a high-solids, robotic-sprayable polymer for car manufacturers and aftermarket applications. QuietCar offers the highest material loss factors of any commercially available material, as determined by the standard Oberst beam tests.