Flexshield provides noise control for water pump station

Initial project requirements:

Even though utilities such as electricity, natural gas, and water play a vital role in our everyday lives, most of us are unaware of the sheer scale of what they do for us.

For example, in South East Queensland alone, each year Queensland Urban Utilities (QUU):

• supply more than 136,000 ML of water
• remove and treat 124,600 ML of sewage

Flexshield worked with QUU on the Springfield Rise project at Spring Mountain, a new development that would eventually be home to 12,000 residents. The project required a new water booster pump station to increase local water pressure, forcing the water to flow faster through plumbing pipes.

Typically, a water boost pump station contains two or more pumps, inlet and outlet pipes, and all motor and electrical controls to make the pumps operate.

If the pump station’s acoustic design and construction are inadequate, it will emit excessive noise, leading to noise disruption for neighbouring residences and complaints to the authorities. This then results in the need to retrofit soundproofing measures.

A much smarter and more cost-effective solution is to incorporate smart acoustic design into the build as part of the development before building the pump station.

Since the new water booster pump station would be located only metres from the closest residential houses, an ultra-quiet pump station was the only option for our client.