Designing & Testing Fitness & Gym Isolated Floating Floors - Good Practices

This course offers a comprehensive study of jack-up floating floor systems, emphasizing the often-misunderstood role of insulation within the air cavity. Participants will explore the principles, benefits, and types of jack-up floors, including embedded and replaceable systems. Combining theory, laboratory data, and real-world case studies, the course dispels the misconception that insulation cannot be integrated, showing how it enhances acoustic performance. Attendees will gain practical guidance on insulation design and installation techniques, enabling them to confidently specify, design, and implement optimized jack-up floating floors for acoustically demanding spaces such as studios, cinemas, gyms, and mechanical rooms.

This course presents the airborne sound reduction and impact noise isolation of lightweight floating floor systems and confirms that CLT-assemblies can provide satisfactory sound insulation. Results of lab measurements on different types of floor setups are shown, including floor solutions using discrete bearings with various thicknesses and/or different void depths and resilient mats and strips, and different floating floors such as plywood, particle and cementitious boards, with and without the use of constrained layer damping technique, as well as gypsum topping.

Buildings near roads or railways can be subjected to ground-borne vibration, resulting in unacceptable levels of structure-borne noise and vibration within. Base isolation helps mitigate this by introducing elastomeric bearings or steel springs between the building and its foundation. Although this is established practice, the available design guidance is limited. This course presents some findings from a theoretical study into the effectiveness of base-isolation for a building founded on piles adjacent to an underground railway. It establishes which aspects of the soil-structure interaction between a building and its foundation are significant, and considers some of the practical implications for design.&nbsp, &nbsp, &nbsp, &nbsp, &nbsp,&nbsp,

There are many types of acoustical floating floors, one of which is a jack-up system. Once the concrete has cured, the isolated slab is raised off the structure using pre-cast boxes. If the use of the room or load conditions change in the future, some of these boxes allow the replacement of the isolators inside them. Replaceable acoustical floor systems are perceived as systems with lower sound insulation (airborne noise) than traditional floating floors. This course presents measurements of airborne sound reduction and impact noise isolation of replaceable jack-up systems and confirm factors that can influence its performance.