Following is a selection of some of our recent projects with full Project Data Sheets attached.
CDM-ISO-STRUCTURE
Holliday Wharf, CDM-ISO-CHR-BOX
Pre-compressed spring bearings supporting a retained facade to protect it from vibration caused when tunnels are built directly beneath.
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Prime House, CDM-ISO-CHR-BOX
Pre-compressed spring bearings support a building that spans the railway line directly opposite Finchley & Frognal Station.
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Highbury Crescent, CDM-ISO-CHR-BOX, CDM-ISO-CHR
Pre-compressed and Simple spring bearings support 13 residential buildings that are located directly above the Northern, Victoria and Canonbury train tunnels.
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Bruges Concert Hall, CDM-ISO-CHR-BOX
Pre-compressed spring bearings support the entire concert hall building to protect it from noise and vibration created in an underpass running directly adjacent to the building.
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Heritage House Budapest, CDM-ISO-CAS-BOX
Pre-compressed elastomer bearings designed to provide sufficient vibration isolation for a music performance hall from the nearby railway.
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UGC Rosny, Paris, CDM-ISO-CAS-BOX
Cinema complex on 8Hz pre-compressed elastomer bearings to protect the building from noise and vibration generated from the underground system below.
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The Pigalle Club, London, CDM-ISO-SEB, CDM-ISO-BOX
Complete internal isolated structure to protect the adjacent theatre from the live music in The Pigalle Club.
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Unicorn Children's Theatre, London, CDM-ISO-SEB, CDM-ISO-BOX
Isolation bearings and fully isolated box-in-box constructions to provide sound insulation between sensitive spaces.
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SportCity, Manchester, CDM-ISO-SEB
Simple 10Hz elastomer bearings designed to protect apartment block from re-radiated noise generated from Manchester Metrolink.
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Navigation Street, Birmingham, CDM-ISO-SEB
14Hz elastomer bearing system designed to minimise re-radiated noise from trains running out of Birmingham New Street Station in a large 10 storey luxury apartment block.
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Bixteth Street, Liverpool, CDM-ISO-SEB
Simple 10Hz elastomer bearings designed to reduce re-radiated noise levels from underground trains in 6-storey apartment block.
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17 Charterhouse Street, London, CDM-ISO-SEB
10Hz elastomer bearings supporting a lightweight steel structure. The office building houses sensitive measuring equipment as well as board meeting rooms. The client specified that the building should be isolated to protect from noise and vibration that will be generated by CrossRail.
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321-339 Finchley Road, London, CDM-ISO-SEB
This large residential development is built directly adjacent to a railway line. The building is on 10Hz isolators to reduce the re-radiated noise levels within dwelling to within acceptable limits.
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10-12 Farm Street, London, CDM-ISO-SEB
This £12M residential house in Mayfair is situated directly above the Jubilee line. The whole building is isolated at ground floor level with separate Box-in-Box constructions in the basement and swimming pool.
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Rue Bleue, Paris, CDM-ISO-SEB
This residential block is isolated from the underground by 8Hz elastomeric bearings.
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Birchstrasse, Zurich, CDM-ISO-STRIP
Strip isolation at foundation level to protect the building from nearby railway vibration.
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CDM-ISO-FLOOR/WALL/CEILING/BOX
Brighton Marina, CDM-ISO-T-SPECIAL
Project specific concrete floating floor design to create a totally de-coupled upper structure thus protecting hotel rooms from the noise generated by night clubs, bars and restaurants in the floors beneath.
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National Theatre, Budapest, CDM-ISO-FLOAT
Concrete floating floor to provide maximum sound insulation between adjacent performance spaces.
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Centre for Auditory Research, London, CDM-ISO-FLOAT-CHR, CDM-ISO-LAT
Five complete box-in-box auditory laboratories and an anechoic chamber on sprung floating floors. The remainder of the laboratory space is on standard concrete floating floors.
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Health & Safety Laboratories, Buxton, CDM-ISO-FLOAT-CHR
The main Anechoic Test Chamber for the new Health & Safety Laboratories in Buxton is supported on a massive concrete sprung floating floor.
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Millennium Point, Birmingham, CDM-ISO-LAT-SPECIAL, CDM-ISO-BOX
Dry floating floor system to create box-in-box constructions for 4 no. studios.
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BBC Workshops, CDM-ISO-LAT-SPECIAL
Special 50mm concrete floating floors for 5 no. workshops in Broadcasting House
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BBC Broadcasting House Sub-Basement, CDM-ISO-LAT-SPECIAL
The floating floor forms the base for a high performance box-in-box construction protecting adjacent studios from generators housed within.
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BBC Broadcasting House 8th Floor, CDM-ISO-LAT-SPECIAL
Special floating floor system specifically designed to protect recording studios from drama broadcast studios and vice versa as well as protecting from underground train noise. Isolation rails were supported off dwarf walls to create a system with a natural frequency of well below 10Hz.
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BBC Mailbox, Birmingham, CDM-ISO-LAT-SPECIAL
Project specific concrete floating floor installation where the floating floor was supported at only 3m centres to minimise the stress on the existing structure. The floating floors acted as the foundation for a high performance box-in-box recording studio used for the recording of the ‘Archers’.
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Chapel Bar, Nottingham, CDM-ISO-LAT-SPECIAL
Huge residential building with a 4-storey nightclub in the middle necessitated box-in-box constructions to be built for both the nightclub and the residential accommodation.
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London Stock Exchange, CDM-ISO-LAT-SPECIAL
Project specific concrete floating floor installation with large underfloor voids to provide optimal sound insulation between adjacent TV broadcast studios.
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Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf, London, CDM-ISO-LAT-SPECIAL
Project specific concrete floating floor system designed to give an overall system performance of 16Hz with a total system thickness of 134mm. The floating floor supported squash courts and aerobics rooms and provides sound insulation and impact isolation control to the sensitive meeting and board rooms below.
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Surrey Tavern, CDM-ISO-CC
Ceiling Sound insulation to maximise sound insulation in between a ground floor restaurant and luxury apartments above.
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32 Emperors Gate, London, CDM-ISO-TOPHAT, CDM-ISO-CC
Domestic Sound insulation to maximise floor and ceiling sound insulation in between vertically stacked appartments.
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Kingston Rotunda, London, CDM-ISO-LAT-SPECIAL, CDM-ISO-STRIP-WALL
Project specific concrete floating floor construction and independently supported drylining partitions to provide high levels of sound insulation between vertically stacked cinemas.
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Cork School of Music, Ireland, CDM-ISO-LAT
Concrete floating floors for 68 no. box-in-box music practice and performance spaces.
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The Egg Theatre , Bath, CDM-ISO-LAT
Concrete floating floor to protect the main auditorium from the rehearsal room above.
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Pavilions , Swords, Ireland, CDM-ISO-LAT
Concrete floating floors for 11 no. cinemas.
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Westminster School Music Practice Rooms, London, CDM-ISO-LAT
Concrete floating floors forming the base of high performance box-in-box constructions for adjacent music practice rooms.
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Blackpool Park, Cork, CDM-ISO-LAT
Concrete floating floors for 7 cinemas that optimised sound insulation performance between cinemas and to retail areas below.
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Mossbourne Academy, CDM-ISO-LAT
Concrete floating floors to protect auditoria and studios from railway noise.
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Whitehall Theatre, CDM-ISO-LAT
Dry floating floor to provide sound insulation separation between theatre and reheasrsal room.
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Gaiety Cinema, Sligo, CDM-ISO-LAT
Concrete floating floors that were the foundation for 5 independent Box-in-box constructions. The treatment was required to provide protection to residential apartments directly above.
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London Stock Exchange Auditorium, London, CDM-ISO-T-SPECIAL
Dry floating floor for sound insulation and that incorporated a levelling system.
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Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, CDM-ISO-MONT, CDM-ISO-MAT
Belgrade Theatre has built a new building along with refurbishing the existing theatre. In the new building a CDM-ISO-MONT floor was used in the Rehearsal Room which is directly above the new auditoium.
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BBC Broadcasting House, London, CDM-ISO-MONT
Broadcasting House in the centre of London is the spiritual home of the BBC. The building is currently being refurbished to house all of BBC's main radio stations. All of the studios are built off CDM-ISO-MONT jack-up concrete slabs to protect the studios from re-radiated noise generated by the nearby Bakerloo and Victoria underground lines.
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Rich Mix Cultural Centre, London, CDM-ISO-MONT-LF
The Rich Mix Cultural Centre has many recording studios, cinemas and auditoria and is located directly above the Central Line. Floating floors were installed to ensure that the trains were not audible.
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Broadway Theatre, Barking, CDM-ISO-MONT
Jack-up concrete floating floor under a studio and control room in a new Arts Complex in East London.
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NCRL Laboratories, Blessington, CDM-ISO-MONT, CDM-ISO-STRIP-WALL
Box-in-Box constructions to provide the maximum possible sound insulation in this comprehensive suite of sound insulation test chambers.
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Clifford Chance Running Machine, CDM-ISO-RUNNINGMACHINE
A bespoke pre-compressed isolation system was specifically designed and installed to solve the problem of structure-borne noise being transmitted to the offices downstairs from the gymnasium at the Clifford Chance HQ in Canary Wharf.
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CDM-ISO-TRACK
Mostoles, CDM-ISO-USM
Undersleeper mats for monoblock concrete sleepers.
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West Rail CC230, Tin Shui Wai New Town, CDM-ISO-BAM-C-L25
Ballast mats were installed in this project when the railway went across any viaduct or other supporting structure to reduce the levels of re-radiated noise.
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Metro of Athens, CDM-ISO-DFSA
Project specific floating slab track design where a novel triple stiffness strip was used to achieve the stringent performance requirements.
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Metro of Lisbon, CDM-ISO-DFMA
Resilient mat floating slab track system to provide vibration and noise isolation control in areas where the underground tunnels were below sensitive buildings.
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CONVURT Test Rig, Worksop, CDM-ISO-MONT
A hi-tech jack-up floating slab track test rig has been built to provide essential information to the CONVURT design team. The project is in collaboration with Pandrol, LUL, Milan Metro, Paris Metro and various other academic organisations.
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Chausée de Charleroi, Brussels, CDM-DFMA-L10
Continuous mat floating slab track treatment was installed to the light rail system in the centre of Brussels to protect adjacent sensitive buildings from the vibration and re-radiated noise generated by the trains.
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Tramway of Bordeaux, CDM-ISO-DFMA
A continuous mat floating slab track was installed in this tram system to protect the many sensitive buildings in the centre of Borbeaux.
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Athens Tramway, CDM-ISO-PREFARAIL
The new light rail system in Athens, being built for the Olympic Games in 2004, is installed with an embedded rail system with additional vibration isolation measures installed when the route passes sensitive buildings.
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Budapest South Railway, CDM-ISO-FERPONT
A combination of CDM-ABSO-RAIL rail absorbers and CDM-ISO-DPHI rails pads and CDM-ISO-UBP under base plate mats were used to reduce the level of noise radiating from the steel bridge crossing the river in the centre of Budapest. The remedial works were required to reduce noise levels in the new Cultural Centre on the banks of the river.
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CDM-ISO-INDUSTRY
88 Xintiandi, Shanghai, CDM-ISO-MACHINE-FIX
This executive residence hotel in Shanghai required the air cooling equipment on the roof of the building to be fixed to the supporting structures with resilient mounts to provide protection from the noise and vibration generated by the machines.
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BBC Egton House Generator Inertia Bases, CDM-ISO-MACHINE-FLOAT
Two 350mm thick jack-up inertia bases support 30 tonne generators in the sub-basement of the new BBC buildings in the heart of London. The inertia bases, supported on springs, protect adjacent studios from the vibration and re-radiated noise generated by these large machines.
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Great Ormond Street Hospital, CDM-ISO-MACHINE-FLOAT
Inertia base supporting a large stand-by generator on the roof of the famous children's hospital. The created box-in-box construction ensures that there is no distrurbance to the people in the hospital.
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London Stock Exchange, London, CDM-ISO-MACHINE-FLOAT
A large enclosure containing three 8 tonne generators is supported on a specially design floating slab supported at 3m centres.
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Amylum Aalst, Belgium, CDM-ISO-MACHINE-FLOAT
A steam turbine and generator set is installed in a concrete inertia base that is isolated using pre-compressed spring bearings.
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Metrocity, Istanbul, CDM-ISO-MACHINE-FLOAT, CDM-ISO-PHS-INDUSTRY
The plant rooms in this multi-function building containing a shopping centre, offices and residential accommodation required concrete floating floors to protect the remainder of the building from noise and vibration from the plant. The system fans and pipework were suspended using resilient and spring hangers to again protect the supporting structures from the vibration.
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Concerthall Bruges, CDM-ISO-MACHINE-FLOAT
One of the main plant rooms in this high profile arts facility is directly above the Chamber Hall performance space. A concrete floating floor was therefore required to ensure that the plant was not audible.
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Aydin Örme, Istanbul, CDM-ISO-LOOM-CONTACT, CDM-ISO-MACHINE-FIX
Vibration isolation treatment was required beneath the weaving looms in this large textile factory to both reduce noise levels within the space and to reduce maintenance costs.
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Atlas Copco, CDM-MACHINE-CONTACT
CDM have been supplying all of the vibration isolation elements for the compressors manufactured at Atlas Copco in Belgium since 1996.
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