Acoustiblok Inc founder and pres­i­dent Lah­nie John­son has ap­point­ed Dar­rell Bereaux as the com­pa­ny's re­gion­al dis­trib­u­tor for T&T.

Acoustiblok Inc is a NASA spin­off list­ed com­pa­ny and the in­ven­tor of Acoustiblok ma­te­r­i­al, a rev­o­lu­tion­ary 1/8" (3-mm) thin, flex­i­ble sound­proof­ing ma­te­r­i­al that re­duces more sound than 12-inch­es of poured con­crete when added to a stud wall.

Re­cent­ly fea­tured on Na­tion­al Ge­o­graph­ic Chan­nel's, Show­down of the Un­beat­a­bles, Acoustiblok won the tele­vi­sion chal­lenge to si­lence the deaf­en­ing train air horns and blar­ing gui­tar (reach­ing more than 130 deci­bels) with on­ly a frac­tion of an inch of the patent­ed Acoustiblok ma­te­r­i­al.

Rather than at­tempt­ing to block or ab­sorb sound as oth­er ma­te­ri­als at­tempt to do, the ma­te­r­i­al trans­forms sound en­er­gy in­to in­audi­ble in­ter­nal fric­tion en­er­gy as the soft heavy ma­te­r­i­al flex­es from sound waves–the same as lead with­out the en­vi­ron­men­tal prob­lems or costs.

Bereaux said: "There is not an­oth­er prod­uct like Acoustiblok on the is­lands avail­able and there is a great need." The glob­al de­mand for sound dead­en­ing prod­ucts has been steadi­ly ris­ing as noise pol­lu­tion has be­come preva­lent. Noise pol­lu­tion has been linked to not on­ly hear­ing loss, but sleep dis­tur­bances, heart dis­ease, stroke, el­e­vat­ed blood pres­sure, and in­abil­i­ty to con­cen­trate.

Chil­dren ex­posed to el­e­vat­ed noise lev­els reg­u­lar­ly are shown to have low­er test scores and height­ened rates of dis­trac­tion. In T&T, there are both in­dus­tri­al and com­mer­cial sources of noise as well as res­i­den­tial.

Nat­ur­al gas and crude oil are two big in­dus­tries. In the com­mer­cial sec­tor there are many night­clubs and restau­rants. Traf­fic is al­so a prob­lem, and of course, Car­ni­val.

Fes­tiv­i­ties start two months pri­or to Lent with trucks and ex­ces­sive street noise every Fri­day through Sun­day lead­ing up to Car­ni­val. Noise or­di­nances are in place, but most peo­ple are not aware of sound lev­els and the health risks that come with high lev­el noise.

Bereaux is an au­dio en­gi­neer and al­so teach­es au­dio en­gi­neer­ing. He re­ceived his Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence from Full Sail Re­al World Ed­u­ca­tion in Or­lan­do, Flori­da and ad­di­tion­al train­ing as an au­dio en­gi­neer from the Min­istry of Arts and Mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism. He and his team at BEX­tron­ics han­dle turn key acousti­cal de­sign and in­stal­la­tion for per­for­mance based spaces, in ad­di­tion to noise mit­i­ga­tion and vi­bra­tion iso­la­tion.

They will be mar­ket­ing com­plete Acoustiblok Sound Re­duc­tion Sys­tems prod­ucts and in­stal­la­tions for the com­pa­ny.

"Dar­rell Bereaux is a high­ly knowl­edge­able and ex­pe­ri­enced au­dio en­gi­neer in a high-de­mand mar­ket," John­son said. "We are thrilled to have Dar­rell join­ing the team at Acoustiblok.

"His ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence and a com­pre­hen­sive un­der­stand­ing of the area's noise abate­ment needs make him a wel­come ad­di­tion to our in­ter­na­tion­al sales di­vi­sion." (PRWEB)