Vibra-Sonic Control is a privately owned company, incorporated in the Province of British Columbia on June 1st, 1980. It was established to provide cost effective solutions to noise and vibration problems, specifically for the commercial, institutional, industrial and marine markets. The company is unique in North America, having the product and the expertise to address noise and vibration control issues across the board. As needed, the knowledge and experience of its many national and international suppliers and manufacturers is drawn upon, each with their own engineers who specialize in very specific areas of noise or vibration control. Vibra-Sonic Control is also Canada’s most knowledgeable supplier of seismic restraint for resiliently mounted systems.

In the past ten years Vibra-Sonic has branched into interior acoustics specifically dealing with sound masking and paging systems. The company has installed sound masking in hundreds of corporate offices and medical facilities across Canada. All the systems have the capability of having campus wide paging as an integral part of their sound system.

The president of Vibra-Sonic Control, Mr. Chris Wolfe, holds a Bachelor of Science degree (1970 - with Honors) from the University of Victoria, a Master of Arts degree (1974) from the University of Western Ontario and has over 31 years field experience in both noise and vibration control and seismic restraint.

Some of the more commonly ordered materials and engineered products are as follows:

• Acoustic doors, windows & operable walls
• Acoustic equipment & personnel enclosures
• Acoustical foams and laminates
• Acoustic floor mats & underlays
• Acoustic high mass curtains
• Acoustic phone booths
• Active hearing protection & silencers
• Air, spring & Elastomeric vibration isolators
• Constrained layer and extensional damping materials
• Die-cut parts
• Engine & blower silencers
• Flexible pipe connectors (acoustic)
• Floating floors, walls & ceilings
• Limp mass barriers
• Marine & NATO approved shock & vibration isolators
• Motor mutes
• Paging systems
• Seismic restraints
• Sound masking systems
• Steam & gas blow down silencers

In order to provide prompt service and delivery, over $ 500,000 worth of materials are stocked in Vancouver and Calgary. Large orders and engineered products are shipped direct from our various suppliers’ manufacturing facilities.

Sound Masking is an important component in rendering normal conversation unintelligible in open plan office environments and for speech privacy in applications such as closed offices, clinics, interrogation rooms, and meeting rooms. Vibra-Sonic Control is pleased to offer our clients a wide range of Customized Sound Masking Systems. Each of our clients receives an individual proposal predicated on their specific requirements.

Vibra-Sonic Control has addressed the need for noise, vibration control and interior acoustics for thousands of clients over the past 30 years. Some are not heard from again for years, others order product on a monthly basis, but every month orders are placed by between 100 and 300 clients ... some small, some large.

Any company can provide references. They simply have to find a few clients that have been happy with their work. Vibra-Sonic Control, however, invites potential clients to contact any major Acoustical Consulting firm in Western Canada or the head of any major Mechanical or Electrical Consulting firm in Alberta or British Columbia to get a truly independent assessment of our products and service.

In short, Vibra-Sonic Control has provided product and service to practically every sector of the market where noise, vibration, interior acoustics and paging are of concern.

• Vibra-Sonic Control has engineered and provided the vibration isolation and seismic restraint on over 2000 major ‘new’ commercial and institutional projects.
• Vibra-Sonic Control/Mason Industries is ‘prime spec.’ on 95%+ of all specifications issued in B.C. for the isolation and seismic restraint of mechanical and electrical equipment and systems.
• Typical applications include the isolation and restraint of cooling towers, power transformers, chillers, emergency generator sets, pumps and air handling equipment. Many pieces of equipment have to be restrained to meet ‘post disaster’ requirements during and after a seismic event.
• Vibra-Sonic Control has provided large quantities of lagging materials and station blow down silencers on many of the large gas pipeline projects that have been in progress over the past few years; as well as vibration and shock mounts on the Canadian ‘Frigate’ program; isolation of exhaust systems to B.C. Ferries; sound masking/ paging systems to various corporate headquarters; and die-cut acoustical under lays to large O.E.M.s such as Deere Hitachi.

Some usual or notable projects/applications are as follows:

• Supplied the isolation/seismic restraint for the pavilions and permanent structures for expo ‘86 in Vancouver.
• Installed sound masking and paging for the City of Calgary’s Whitethorn Multi Service Center, which is the combined 311 and 911 call center.
• Installed a campus-wide paging and sound masking system in a two building complex for Albian Shell in Fort McMurray. Included the challenge of ensuring clearly audible paging in high open ceiling warehouses with multiple fan noises.
• Installed 650 speakers in the Enmax head office in Calgary. The system was originally for sound masking but paging was added to the system.
• At South Calgary Health Centre, 24 zones of paging, 20 zones of sound masking, security paging, telephone and microphone paging were installed. Masking and paging were optimized with ambient sensors in areas such as public health.
• Spring isolated a complete bowling alley, including the pinsetters, on the second floor of the Banff Springs Hotel.
• Provided the complete sound masking system installed in of TransCanada Tower (over 2,000 speakers)

Vibra-Sonic Control and its employees are Members or Associate Members of the following organizations: