## 1 Introduction  
An inseparable element of the civilization progress accompanying the dynamic development of industry and trade is the need to erect new industrial facilities, residential and public utility buildings as well as to expand the communication infrastructure enabling effective transport of both people and goods. Unfortunately, this process, apart from positive aspects (such as the increase in the availability of various types of goods and services, communication improvements in the form of new or modernized communication routes, and the appearance of new and faster means of transport) is also associated with a negative impact on the environment. It manifests itself not only in the form of pollution and contamination of air, soil, and surface and groundwater; increasingly, in engineering practice we deal with environmental pollution in the form of noise and vibrations. Noise decreases not only the comfort of living, but also the comfort of work--thus negatively affecting its efficiency. In turn, intense vibrations generated by blasting (in mines, quarries, and construction sites [1; 2]), ground vibrations caused by civil engineering works (passing heavy equipment [3; 4], soil compaction [5; 6; 7; 8; 9], sheet pile driving and pulling out [10; 11], pile driving [1; 4; 5; 12], or traffic-induced vibrations [13; 14; 15; 16]) can propagate over considerable distances and negatively affect not only the deterioration of living comfort and use, but also the technical condition of nearby located structures [1; 4]. In most civilized countries, if a negative impact of vibrations transmitted through the ground on buildings and their users is found or possible to occur, appropriate guidelines and normative regulations apply, which require the investor to commission dynamic measurements, evaluate the impact of existing or predicted vibrations on the planned investment, and if necessary, taking appropriate measures to minimize the negative effects of the planned investment on the environment. These may be measures taken at the vibration source, along the transmission path, or taken at the vibration receiver itself [17]--and if this is not possible activities aimed at modifying the operating parameters of the vibration source (reduction of power/voltage/pressure supplied to the machine or device, change of rotational speed; in the case of traffic vibrations--introduction of restrictions connected with the maximum total weight and vehicle travel speed [18]). In engineering practice, we do not always deal with an existing source of vibrations and an erected building object that is a receiver of vibrations. Due to the constantly decreasing availability of free areas for development and the increasing density of urban areas, we are now much more likely than in previous years to predict the impact of vibrations on newly designed buildings or predict the impact of new sources of vibrations (e.g., new communication routes) on existing buildings and their users. Virtually every civilized country has its own regulations on this subject. In the European Union, the key normative acts in the field of measuring vibrations on the ground and the predicted assessment of the impact of vibration on buildings are DIN 4150-3:1999 [19], DIN 45669-2:2005-06 [20], BS 7385-1:1990 [21], BS 7385-2:1993 [22], BS 5228-4:1992 [23], and BS ISO 4866:2010/ISO 4866:2010E [24]. In some countries (such as in New Zealand [4]) it was proposed to adopt identical or like the above normative methods for assessing the impact of vibrations on buildings and people in the building. In other countries (among others in Poland (PN-B-02170:2016-12 [25]) slightly different criteria were applied. The problem is that there are no common, harmonized, and binding (even in the EU) rules for dynamic measurements and acquisition of necessary data related to the vibrations transmitted through the ground and for predicting their impact on buildings and their occupants.