When FSD Active joined forces with two of the world’s most renowned engineering consultancies, the opportunity to reshape the future of the global construction industry was an exhilarating proposition. Today, our collaboration with Thornton Tomasetti and Syska Hennessy has not only invigorated our stakeholders, it’s helping to mitigate the built environment’s impact on climate change – and revitalise the ambitions of building designers in the process.
When we unveiled our patented CALMFLOOR active vibration control technology, Thornton Tomasetti and Syska Hennessy were the first leading engineering consultancies to throw their support behind our revolutionary solution.
CALMFLOOR active mass damping (AMD) technology represents the world’s only active floor vibration control that delivers a fast, low-cost, low-carbon remedy to unwanted vibration in any building. The compact 67kg (150-pound) AMDs can be installed in just hours, achieving instant reductions in floor vibration of up to 90%. Promising unrivalled savings in time, cost and embodied carbon, architects, engineers and consultants have heralded the technology a game-changer in the quest to meet the demands for more sustainable and lighter weight built structures.
Two of the world’s most respected engineering consultancies
“When technological innovation and engineering worlds collide, great things can happen,” commented Steven Senior, COO at FSD Active Limited. It’s not hard to imagine the impact novel technology can make to the construction sector when the might of two of the world’s most respected engineering consultancies are your advocates.
“With Thornton Tomasetti and Syska Hennessy as partners, we’ve penetrated new markets and, crucially, raised awareness of the unparalleled benefits active vibration can deliver. It’s a message the industry is becoming increasingly receptive to and eager to act on.”
Resolving vibration challenges in any built structure
CALMFLOOR resolves lively floor problems that need an instant, out-of-the-box solution without any structural intervention – and the associated disruption, downtime, cost and carbon impacts. A recent case study highlighted the challenge for the owners of an office building in Geneva, Switzerland, to reduce a footfall-induced floor vibration of R-Factor 16, which is 2 to 4 times higher than acceptable limits for offices. CALMFLOOR AMDs were deployed and vibration was reduced to under R-Factor 2, equating to a reduction of 89% – in just a few hours.
For building retrofit projects, change of use or more demanding performance criteria, CALMFLOOR delivers low-cost, low-vibration, compliant environments to the most demanding lab standards. This means effectively saving the floor rather than resorting to a rebuild. For a life sciences sector facing a post-pandemic wave of office-to-lab conversions, this is truly welcome news.
New-build projects have historically fuelled the industry’s reliance on concrete and steel – and their subsequent high embodied carbon. Architects, engineers and contractors meanwhile continue to strive for increasingly lighter, leaner, longer-span designs to create open plan spaces that also meet Net Zero targets. CALMFLOOR AMDs achieve architectural ambitions on building performance, sustainability, cost, value and carbon commitment.
A unique opportunity to change the future of building design together
Thornton Tomasetti recently launched a new embodied carbon podcast series to help design professionals apply fresh thinking and best practices to reduce embodied carbon in the built environment. Adding CALMFLOOR to the suite of solutions allows designers to reduce the use of concrete and mitigate the industry’s climate footprint.
FSD Active’s vibration experts also offer a unique try-before-you-buy resource in the form of a specialist simulation service. The service models and predicts vibration in a building in a range of scenarios. With precise data on hand to predict vibration behaviour before and after a CAMFLOOR deployment to within world-leading accuracy, a seamless, confident switch to AMD-controlled, high-performance environments is assured.
To find our more about CALMFLOOR and FSD Active’s simulation service, please contact us.