The most relevant information found so far in the UK is BS 7385 and particularly Table 1, which gives recommended distances between road and buildings for various soil types.
TRL Report 235 also is helpful, so I am closing down this enquiry, thank you for your help.
The humps are already in place. The reason for the original enquiry is that there may be a need to monitor the effect of damage to local old buildings, to recommend or otherwise alternative ways of calmig traffic in this sensitive area.
We need to find out first if there is a genuine problem, to...
Traffic calming speed humps are being installed in an ancient High Street, with resulting potential vibration damage to adjacent buildings with minimum foundations. Is there advice available on a monitoring regime which might indicate extent and frequency of vibration damage to buildings...