U-Boot® Silence: the sound insulation mantle specifically designed to be used on slabs lightened with the U-Boot® Beton system

In recent years the awareness of home comfort has become increasingly widespread.

In recent years the awareness of home comfort has become increasingly widespread. Developers and end users require outstanding performance and quality characteristics, appropriate to their expectations and demand specific warranties from the manufacturer and the designer.

While on the subject of energy saving leaps and bounds have been made in recent years, the problem of acoustic comfort is still underestimated. Recent studies have also shown that people who live in areas not adequately acoustically insulated have trouble sleeping, irritability, reduced productivity at work.

For these reasons, non-compliance with minimum noise insulation performance may compromise the very validity of the certificate of habitability and produce a considerable loss of property value.

U-Boots Silence is the sound insulation mantle specifically designed to be used on slabs lightened with the U-Boot® Beton system, which “silences” for good the annoying airborne noise and by impact.

The application of U-Boot® Silence on these lightened slabs delivers excellent insulation performance by placing the building into Class I (UNI 11367:2010) for the airborne noise and impact.

Empirical evidence on the level of sound insulation have been obtained by laboratory tests, carried out according to UNI EN ISO 1403:2006, 140-6:2000, 717-1:2007, 717-2:2007 standards, on a plate slab lightened with the construction system U-Boot® Beton.

The results of unfinished slabs, are better than traditional masonry systems both in terms of airborne noise and by impact.

Even more important is the outcome of the acoustic tests of the slabs lightened with U-Boot® Beton on which was created a floating floor with a soundproofing mantle U-Boot® Silence, which showed values corresponding to Class I (UNI 11367:2010).