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Making stability sustainable
Through monitoring, numerical modelling, immersive simulations and imaginative damper design, we help clients anticipate and mitigate the vibration issues that may affect the comfort and safety of occupants.
Our insights not only deliver better performing structures. Working from first principles, we are challenging traditional, carbon-intensive approaches to make stability sustainable. To inform designs that meet both performance goals and carbon targets. To trim out material from designs. To unlock the use of lightweight alternatives like timber.
Different challenges, different tools
Our team represents every discipline in vibration engineering, allowing us to match the right expertise and tool to the project and issue. We have authored many of the tools and algorithms we use ourselves and refined their accuracy against monitoring data. That investment in new approaches and technologies is helping our clients to navigate their design choices with greater confidence.
For example, data and reports give the facts, but to simulate the experience of vibration from different design options, we have created our own tool. Our Motion Platform combines data from designs and environmental factors to give clients a real-time, immersive experience of the vibration effects building users will experience. We combine our Motion Platform with sound enabled virtual reality to fully simulate the reality of these forces.
High performance, low vibration
For scientific and medical facilities, vibration is more than an issue of comfort or safety. To operate effectively, the instruments and equipment vital to the work of these facilities need an environment where vibration is minimal. Following traditional approaches to minimising vibration leads to costly, carbon-intensive groundworks. It is not uncommon for these facilities to have concrete foundations two meters deep. We work from first principles to create more imaginative responses to these needs, proving the required stability in more sustainable ways.
Alongside vibration issues, sensitive instruments need environments where electromagnetic fields, temperature, air currents and acoustics are actively controlled. We regularly collaborate with colleagues in these disciplines, and in mechanical services design to provide a single, comprehensive solution to the creation of high-performance environments.
An expert perspective
Alongside our commercial design work and acting as a third-party reviewer of vibration analyses, we research and publish widely on advances in vibration engineering. We sit on the Eurocode committee developing guidance for use of timber in buildings, and are currently pioneering the use of video monitoring and image recognition to identify and accurately identify the causes and extent of vibration. Together, these advances are moving us, our clients and our industry to an ever-deeper understanding of design for comfort, safety and sustainability.
Discover how our team can help
You can access our Vibration Engineering services through regional consultants around the world. Wherever you’re based, we can help you look beyond your sector to explore new sources of inspiration and identify opportunities for growth.
