The 4th and 5th papers by the Acoustics Group have been accepted to be presented at the IOA 50th Anniversary Conference, Manchester 12/13th September 2024. The first is the PhD work of Alec Korchev entitled, "Wind induced creaking in tall buildings", and second by Dr Haydar Aygun on "Sound transmission through rigid porous materials with and without perforations". See you all in Manchester!
It is a pleasure to announced that Dr Haydar Aygun, Associate Professor of Acoustics at London South Bank University has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics. Dr Haydar Aygun is the current Course Lead for Acoustics at London South Bank University incorporating the Masters programme in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics and the IOA Diploma in Noise Control. Well done Haydar!
On the 10th July 2024 three Masters students from the MSc in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics course presented their dissertations to IOA London Branch hosted by London South Bank University. Starting with Vincent Tham on "Acoustics of Choral Rehearsal Room" (dialing in from Malaysia at 1am). This was followed by Ruben Vazquez Amos on, "The Effect of Face Coverings on Speech Intelligibility and Speech Transmission". The finale was Sam Toone presenting on, "Automated Sound Classification on Construction and Non-construction Events". The hybrid meeting was attended by 26 people, not bad for the evening of the Euros semi-final which we wathced in our local pub's beer garden!
Eight Svantek SV200 Class 1 environmental noise monitoring stations has been kindly donated to the Acoustics Group from the Hinkley Point C construction site. These will be used to PhD candidate Ekim Bakirci as part of his research comparing the on-site performance of Norsonic, NTi and Svantek noise monitoring kit with his proposed solution. Many thanks go to Turnbull UK.
