Floating floors and slabs
Plant rooms, rooftops, floating floors and slabs, theatres, nightlife and gyms: vibration and noise never reach the people inside or the neighbours.
Points on the drawing
Listen to the building
Start the machines and hear what reaches the homes and premises.
Noise reduction
– dB(A)
The bass from the music goes through the floor to the neighbours. On a floating slab it stays in the room.
Weights and jumps are heard below as thuds. A floating slab absorbs them.
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1Floating floors and slabs
The problem
Gyms, theatres, dance halls, nightclubs or plant rooms: impacts and bass pass to the neighbours through the structure.
What we fit
A concrete slab on isolators, separated from the structural floor: the floor floats and vibration does not get through.
Typical choice
Anti-vibration floating slab1–4.5 Hz
Sandwich vibration mounts2,500–25,000 kg · 10 Hz
Single anti-vibration springs5–730 kg · 3–9 HzProven in buildings: Pabellón de Badalona, Hospital de Manresa (2011), 1,000 m² of floating slabs.
The final choice depends on the load per mount, the speed and the environment. An engineer confirms it with you.
2Whole building on springs
The problem
Next to a railway, a road or a factory, vibration enters the whole building through the foundation.
What we fit
Support the building, or the hall, on low-frequency springs, as at the Castelldefels Theatre-Auditorium.
Typical choice
Proven in buildings: Teatro-Auditorio de Castelldefels, 2,340 t on coaxial springs.
The final choice depends on the load per mount, the speed and the environment. An engineer confirms it with you.
12 products
Sandwich vibration mounts
- Load
- 2,500–25,000 kg
- Nat. freq.
- 10 Hz
Anti-vibration floating slab
- Load
- on request
- Nat. freq.
- 1–4.5 Hz
Single anti-vibration springs
- Load
- 5–730 kg
- Nat. freq.
- 3–9 Hz
Machine levelling feet
- Load
- 25–7,000 kg
- Nat. freq.
- 15 Hz
Spring isolator
- Load
- 390–8,760 kg
- Nat. freq.
- 3–9 Hz
Vibration mounts 954202-954203
- Load
- 50–7,000 kg
- Nat. freq.
- 11–22 Hz
FLEXAMOR vibration mounts
- Load
- on request
- Nat. freq.
- on request
Double springs with retention
- Load
- 80–1,460 kg
- Nat. freq.
- 7–9 Hz
Vibration mounts 954412
- Load
- 1,000–3,000 kg
- Nat. freq.
- 15–20 Hz
Container Pad Seismic Vibration Isolator
- Load
- 100–10,000 kg
- Nat. freq.
- 3–9 Hz
Vibration mounts 954201
- Load
- 50–900 kg
- Nat. freq.
- 18–25 Hz
Vibration mounts 954416
- Load
- 350–3,000 kg
- Nat. freq.
- 15–25 Hz
Where it has been installed · Floating floors and slabs
4 projects in Spain
Projects for this application around the world. Click a point to see its story.
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Case studies · Floating floors and slabs
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