Services

Providing acoustical consulting and systems engineering services requires an expertise in a number of disciplines. Since each client and each project is unique, requiring its own unique approach, our staff remains highly involved with a vast number of techniques and technologies in a number of these services.

Benefiting from these services are clients from a diverse mixture of professions and backgrounds, all who consider improved audio and visual communications important in their daily lives. These clients represent such institutions as houses of worship, corporate and manufacturing companies, K12 schools and institutes of higher learning, judicial branches, civic centers, theaters, and various sporting facilities.

OUR SERVICES INCLUDE:

Acoustical Consulting: Utilizing advanced computer-aided modeling, our skilled professionals can identify potential acoustics problems in the design phase of any building project, well before construction begins. We can also engineer solutions for existing sound systems and "problem spaces" by utilizing sophisticated acoustic measurement systems and computer-aided models.

Audio/Visual System Design: Enhance the message or lesson in a variety of venues from classrooms and corporate boardrooms to churches, auditoriums, and civic centers. Our experts design goal-specific systems that will stimulate any message both visually and acoustically.

Low-Voltage System Engineering: Having on staff two of only six people in Iowa who are NICET certified for Low Voltage Audio Systems, R & D Industries provides top-notch engineering services including CCTV, access control, IT/data networks, and other low-voltage systems.

Noise Control: Noise as a pollutant is an ever-increasing problem for architects, engineers and building owners. This problem can lead to annoyance, impact a space's functionality, and cause production to suffer. R & D Industries assists clients in identifying these problems and can recommend cost-effective solution to noise issues. From noise masking solutions within a shared office space, mechanical isolation solutions, and planning oversight on new construction projects, our services can save thousands in after-the-fact remodeling costs.

Architectural Studies: For 20 years, R & D Industries has remained on the cutting edge of developing test and measurement technologies. Utilizing these tools and developed practices, our staff assists clients in identifying acoustical problems in existing spaces and avoiding problems in structures still on the drawing board. Based on measurement data taken at a site, our engineers prepare written reports outlining acoustical issues such as reflection, reverberation, noise criteria, STC, and much more. Although technical in nature, our architectural studies are written using easily-understood terms, giving clients a simple path to achieve their acoustical goals.

Sound Reinforcement System Calibration: Utilizing time energy frequency analysis, RDI has the technical expertise to achieve the maximum performance for any type of sound reinforcement system. Our industry-proven techniques can take full advantage of a sound reinforcement system's acoustical and electrical characteristics with consideration for variables such as space occupancy and environmental conditions. Time, amplitude, frequency response, gain structure, physical alignment and phase relationships can be analyzed and maximized to ensure your sound system is properly configured for your acoustical space, providing a sonically accurate performance.

System Integration: RDI has spent the last 20 years providing clients with professional-quality audio, video, and theatrical lighting systems. Our staff prides itself in providing top-notch maintenance and installation services to an ever-expanding list of clients throughout the Midwest.