As towns and cities grow, Farrat’s bespoke acoustic, vibration and thermal insulation solutions enable designers, structural engineers, and developers to create energy efficient buildings that meet building regulations around the surrounding infrastructure, including train and tube lines, busy road networks, and nearby leisure or industrial facilities.
We deliver engineering solutions within agreed timescales, to help keep projects on schedule. We’re available before, during, and after delivering our products and services to make sure you’re delighted with our engineering solutions.
Farrat Application & Engineering Technology Services
STRUKTRA™ Structural Thermal Break Plates
Our market leading thermal breaks offer ETA certified Structural and Thermal performance validated by the renowned Fraunhofer Institute. Applications & Technology Services include;
- Thermal Performance Modelling
- Steel to Steel (Steel and timber frame buildings including exoskeleton + façades, balconies and secondary steelwork)
- Concrete to Steel (Concrete and steel frame buildings + façades, balconies and secondary steelwork)
- Concrete to Concrete (Concrete frame buildings, columns, slabs + façades and cantilevered balconies)
- Modular buildings
High Performance Sound Insulation
Vibration control solutions are used to support buildings and building structures to provide protection from low frequency ground-borne noise and vibration generated from external sources such as underground railways for the entire life of the building.
Farrat design and manufacture a comprehensive range of ever improving standard and bespoke products; ranging from individual Acoustic Bearings through to complete Building Isolation Systems including;
Acoustically Isolated Façades
Whilst cladding is attached to the structure of the building, it typically does not contribute to its stability. However, cladding does play a structural role by transferring wind loads, impact loads, snow loads, and its own self-weight back to the structural framework. Wind causes significant pressure on the surface of buildings and cladding must have sufficient strength and stiffness to resist this load, both in terms of the type of cladding selected and its connections back to the structure.
High-quality, well-designed, and professionally installed cladding can help maximise thermal performance, minimise air leakage, and optimise natural daylighting into a building. This can in turn help to optimise energy efficiency and lower capital and running costs. Poor design detailing or installation, however, will compromise cladding performance and can result in safety problems such as cladding collapse or cladding panels pulling away from the structure. Farrat offer;
- Acoustically Isolated Façade Design
- Expert Consultancy Services
- Springs
Building Vibration Isolation
Farrat’s design principles and acoustic isolation solutions provide an adaptable and flexible way of incorporating vibration control into building structures, with the aim to achieve the best combined system performance of load bearing capacity, structural integrity, vibration control and buildability. The success of a building isolation project is not just reliant on the performance of the isolation bearings but requires consideration of the entire building design. Our engineering and manufacturing teams provide;
- BVI Design Consultancy
- Springs
- Bearing Assemblies
- VFT System
