Most new buildings within citiesare likely to be located withinclose proximity of a major sourceof noise and vibration, such as anunderground tunnel, a railway line, abusy road or another internal sourceof noise and vibration.In order to protect a building or partof a building from the consequentialstructure-borne noise and vibration itmay be necessary to support it usingstructural isolation bearings.
Buildings are composed of different building elements (facades, steel beams and columns, etc…) that are to be assembled and connected to each other to make them continuous or to form one structural unit.When required to isolate these elements acoustically from each other, there is a need to guarantee the structural stability.
CDM Stravitec provides different Elastic Structural Fixations that combine both the stability requirements of a structural connection/fastening with a noise and vibration decoupling/isolation solution. If correctly designed, it provides an effective reduction in noise and vibration energy transmission.
Examples of such elastic fixations are façade fixations, steel beam-beam and beam-column connections.
