Benefits
Our technology mostly consists of space, offering the following advantages over conventional sound proofing:
- Relative optical transparency
- Permeability to wind
- Less reverberation time between parallel barriers
- Simple design, very low maintenance, unrestricted drainage
- More aesthetic, less confined
- Material independent
The immediate impact of the novel noise barrier technology is to enable, in a cost effective and less intrusive manner, sound attenuation systems to be deployed along noisy transport links and around machinery. This provides economic benefits in that less material is required for barrier construction, typically less than half that required in a solid barrier. Furthermore a free flow of air is available for cooling thus avoiding the need for additional cooling as would be required in a system that fully enclosed noisy machinery. Therefore the proposed system will additionally provide a ‘greener’ as well as cheaper – less material and less energy consumption – alternative to current sound protection systems.