Recycle material as Industrialised Building System (IBS) internal partition

Abstract

Partition walls are the walls which divide a building area into number of rooms to provide privacy to the inhabitants of the building from sound and sight. The partition should be able to contain voices inside the room as to not disturb people outside the room. The objective of this research is to produce a partition wall which is better at sound insulation than the commercial gypsum board. In this research, the soundproofing ability of the partition walls is evaluated using the noise effect system trainer, in order to find out the sound source in decibel from the three types of frequencies which are low, medium and high. The study also looking at a way of environmental-friendliness by using recyclable materials as the samples of partition walls is made from egg carton and aluminium cans. The result showed that the partition with egg carton and rockwool is better at blocking sound with percentages of 14.42%, 13.01% and 17.71%. This product act as an alternative for IBS internal partition in the near future.