Building Vibration

Wave Engineering offers a wide array of consulting and testing services to assist with your vibration sensitive projects.
Services include:

  • Assessment of vibration criteria and equipment vibration specifications
  • Site surveys and measurements to verify compliance with equipment specifications before installation
  • Develop methods to reduce building vibration for existing or planned facilities
  • Evaluate ground borne and building vibration from exterior sources including helipads, vehicular traffic and trains
  • Evaluate building vibration from interior sources such as HVAC equipment, elevators, and people walking
  • Equipment isolation, building isolation, room isolation, slab isolation
  • Vibration control for human occupancy and comfort

Applications and Markets include

  • MRI suites, imaging equipment, and hybrid operating rooms
  • Vibration sensitive research laboratories
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance systems (NMRs)
  • Electron microscopes
  • Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
  • Atom Probe microscopes
  • Helium Ion microscopes
  • Sensitive manufacturing and metrology facilities
  • Office buildings
  • Hospitals
  • Multi-story schools
  • Condominiums
  • Focused Ion Beam systems (FIB)
  • Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
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