Vibration and offices: how to design quiet buildings next to production areas.
Discover how to protect comfort and functionality in offices built close to industrial sites.
When vibrations come from industrial machinery.
Production areas can generate continuous, persistent vibration that travels through the ground and into adjacent buildings. In an office block, these dynamic loads can undermine workplace quality, causing discomfort, fatigue and a sense of instability.
It’s often invisible — but it can be disruptive for people working in the affected spaces and for any activity that requires concentration and quiet.
Why you need to act?
For people’s comfort
Uncontrolled vibration affects physical and mental well-being. An unstable, noisy environment can reduce productivity, raise stress levels and impact everyday efficiency.
To protect technology
Office equipment—servers, network devices, precision hardware — and the building structure itself can be sensitive even to small vibrations. Robust structural insulation is crucial to ensure continuity and reliability.
The Isolgomma approach: anti-vibration solutions at the foundation.
To counter ground-borne vibration effectively and over the long term, the best place to intervene is at the foundation, ideally from the design stage. At Isolgomma, we develop high-performance anti-vibration systems specifically for buildings located next to dynamic industrial sources.
Depending on the structure and soil conditions, we recommend three main solutions:
Perfect for new buildings with punctual foundations. It acts directly on the load-bearing elements, delivering precise, effective insulation.
Recommended for structures with larger bearing surfaces. Anti-vibration layers under the slab create a continuous barrier against vibration.
A flexible option for existing buildings or refurbishments. The system acts along the sides of the foundation, attenuating vibration when under-slab work isn’t feasible.
Efficient offices — even in industrial settings.
Designing an office building next to a production area doesn’t mean compromising on comfort or functionality. With Isolgomma’s anti-vibration solutions, any building can become a quiet, stable and protected workplace—where people and technologies perform at their best.
