Luxury residential buildings compete on amenities, and a fitness and gym space is now a given. A basketball court and a pickleball court inside the residential tower are a different story. They are rare, they are memorable, and they are more challenging to isolate. On a recent project in Philadelphia, PA, our team was asked to make that work. The amenity level, including fitness, basketball, pickleball, and yoga, sat on the third floor, on elevated structural slabs, with resi

Floating floor systems have been part of the structural acoustics toolkit for decades, and for good reason. Done well, they solve some of the hardest problems in building acoustics: impact noise, structure-borne vibration, and flanking transmission between floors. Done poorly, they become the thing tenants complain about for years after the building opens. The isolation pad sitting underneath that floating slab does most of the work. And yet, the materials specified for that

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