Acoustic Floating Floor - Stud Rail System Type SRS

The principle of supporting two separate masses to significantly improve the standard acoustic mass law performance is well understood.

The term “Floating Floor” is a relatively new expression that has gained favour in more recent years but the method of supporting a floor structure on resilient bearings off a structural slab has been applied and developed by Christie and Grey over much of its 100 year history. Examples of this work still in existence date back to the early 1960's.

The development of structural materials has enabled architects and engineers to make more and more use of lightweight structures in modern building designs. This has highlighted the need to consider carefully the noise, shock and vibration transmission loss characteristics of these structures.

In particular, for high rise buildings, the proximity of “noisy or high” and “quiet or critical” areas significantly increases the potential for use of acoustic and vibration isolation materials, including floating floors.

For example, it might be necessary to isolate a plant room from office accommodation below, reduce external noise such as low flying aircraft penetrating the roof of a building or reducing the transmission of footfall impact noise from one apartment to another below.

SRS Acoustic Floating Floor Systems have been used successfully in applications such as Plant rooms, Offices, Prestigious Apartment Blocks, TV, Radio and Recording Studios, Cinemas, Concert Halls and Audiometry rooms.