Floating Floors

Name: Floating Floors
Brand: AMC Mecanocaucho

Resilient Floor Systems for Superior Acoustic Performance

Floating floor systems resiliently decouple the floor finish from the structural slab, significantly reducing impact noise, airborne sound transmission and structure-borne vibration. By eliminating acoustic bridges, they provide outstanding acoustic performance in residential, commercial and technical buildings. Their lightweight, high-performance design also makes them particularly suitable for timber structures and renovation projects where acoustic comfort is a priority.

Solutions

Floating Floor SystemConcrete Floor:

A resilient floating floor system designed to minimise impact noise and structure-borne vibration while providing excellent acoustic performance with a low construction depth.

Structural concrete slab - 140mm
Mineral wool - 45mm
Akustik + Sylomer® 25 Floor mount
Timber battens - 50x40mm
Concrete board - 20mm
Concrete board BR - 13mm

APPLICATION EXAMPLE

Machine Room Floor Isolation

Machine room floor isolation systems minimise the transmission of structure-borne vibration from mechanical equipment to the building. Sylomer® is available in a wide range of load capacities, allowing the isolation system to be precisely matched to each application.

Mechanical equipment
HVAC units, pumps, emergency generators, compressors, transformers and other vibration-generating machinery.
Reinforced concrete inertia slab
Provides additional mass to improve vibration isolation. Its mass should preferably be at least 2.5 times that of the supported equipment.
Sylomer® vibration isolators
High-performance microcellular polyurethane isolators offering excellent vibration isolation, long-term durability, and high resistance to oils, fuels and chemicals.
Structural concrete slab
The building's primary load-bearing floor supporting the isolation system.

APPLICATION EXAMPLE

Sports Floor Systems

Floor composition:

A high-performance sports floor is composed of four functional layers, each designed to improve impact absorption, vibration control and athlete comfort. The example below illustrates the construction of the Sylomer® Gym Dry Floor Pro system.

1. Floor finish
The wearing surface of the sports floor, designed to withstand intensive use while providing the required playing characteristics.

2. Impact absorption layer
The resilient layer that absorbs impact energy, reduces peak forces and controls the transmission of impact noise and structure-borne vibration.

3. Load distribution layer
A system of timber battens and structural panels that distributes loads evenly across the floor while improving stiffness and dynamic performance.

4. Resilient support system
Sylomer® resilient blocks combined with mineral wool insulation support the floating floor and determine the natural frequency and vibration isolation performance of the system.

Learning

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FLOATING FLOORS WITH RESPECT TO FLATNESS & LEVELNESS

This article aims to inform people about the importance of the floor flatness and levelness values of a concrete slab, mostly known as FF and FL numbers.

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F numbers are used to measure and improve the flatness and levelness of concrete floors.

Test results

NEW LABORATORY TEST RESULTS FOR THE AKUSTIK + SYLOMER FLOOR MOUNTS IN CROSS-LAMINATED TIMBER (CLT) STRUCTURES

This article shows the tests results for floating floor installations when used in Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) structures, comparing them to the results of the bare CLT structure.

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Laboratory tests

SUSPENSION – CONCRETE STRUCTURE

According to the results obtained from different acoustic tests carried out at an external laboratory, the Akustik + Sylomer®Floor Mounts offer a high reduction of impact noise (up to 30 dB).

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Laboratory tests

AKUSTIK + SYLOMER FLOOR MOUNTS IN CLT STRUCTURES

This article shows the tests results for floating floor installations when used in Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) structures, comparing them to the results of the bare CLT structure.

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