Savile Row

Main Contractor & Client

Cableplan

Acoustic Consultant

Applied Acoustic Design

Key Facts

54m² Acoustic Floating Floor

Total build up height of 122mm

Prestigious London City Centre development

The Challenge

23 Savile Row is an outstanding new 100,000 sq ft office building located in the prestigious
Mayfair area of London. The cutting edge building features virtually column-free floors that are typically 16,500 sq ft with floor to ceiling glazed facades on three sides. Designed to represent a new standard for offices in the West End the building has already received numerous prestigious awards, including West End Development of the Year at the Office Development Awards 2009.

US hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management took the complete third floor and required a floating floor to control noise and vibration transmission from a new 54m2 gym adjacent to the office areas. The proposed gym included general fitness equipment such as treadmills, bikes, elliptical trainers and free weights and would also mean loud music being played at all times.

There were also some specific constraints relating to access into the building and the load bearing capacity of the structural floors.

The Solution

In order to ensure complete acoustic isolation of the offices from the gym Farrat put forward a comprehensive floating floor solution with a design comprising 70mm high Isomat Isolators with a dry sandwich construction comprising 12mm structural grade ply, 25mm acoustic soundboard, 15mm acoustic soundboard resulting in a total build up height of 122mm.

Despite the potential issues caused by the building’s busy and central city location AcouStruct supplied, delivered and installed the entire floating floor system quickly, safely and to a very high quality standard.

The client was extremely satisfied as once the system was installed and in operation it was not possible to hear or feel any jumping or running activities from the gym.