Conference_programme: 17.6 - Predicting vibration / impact / structure-borne sound in buildings
Lecture: Standardising structure-borne noise assessments with heavy impacts for potential gyms in lightweight mixed use structures
Author(s): Rogers Peter, Matherson Chris, Woodhams Sebastian, Rubio Sara
Summary:
Noise and vibration from gyms can be one of the most disturbing activities to sensitive occupants of the same building, and the trend in the UK to place gyms in vacant units close to sensitive receptors requires careful consideration of the suitability of a building for such a use. Determining the suitability of a building for fit out as a gym requires consideration of the building response as a whole to heavy impacts, as the resulting structure-borne noise that is generated is a combination of a complexed response to input forces. A standardised test methodology is proposed, based on a practical approach to enable the real building response to various input forces to be robustly assessed in a repeatable and consistent fashion. By exciting the base response of the building with a number of simulated impulsive vibration sources that represent real activities it is possible to identify firstly if the building is suitable, and secondly what levels of mitigation treatments may be required. This paper proposes a standardised method to stimulate debate within the industry, and with the view of assisting local authorities to standardise their approaches to changes of uses within buildings in response to society’s demands for gyms.
Corresponding author
Name: Mr Sebastian Woodhams
e-mail: swoodhams@sustainableacoustics.co.uk
Country: United Kingdom
