A paper on underground stations VA systems presented at Inter-Noise 2019

A paper  written by Graeme Littleford and Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina  has been presented and published at Internoise 2019 conference. The paper was entitled “Acoustic design of voice alarm systems in an occupied platform ”. The presentation generated interest and was well received. Some questions were posed to Graeme during question time and informal discussions ensued after the presentation between members of the audience and the authors.

A paper on Acoustic Louvres directivity presented at Inter-Noise

A paper  written by Jack Traveller and Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina  has been presented and published at Internoise 2019 conference. The paper was entitled “Validation of guidance for the prediction of the directivity index of ventilation louvres”. The clear and well conveyed presentation generated interest and was well received by the audience who posed some good questions.

A paper on sound transmission using SEA technique presented at Inter-noise

A paper  written by Juan Luis Rioperez Rodriguez, Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina  and Robert Adnitt  has been presented and published at Internoise 2019 conference.  The paper was entitled “Acoustic analysis of sound transmission in a mixed-use development using Statistical Energy Analysis”. The clear and well conveyed presentation generated interest judging by the several good questions posed by the audience to Juan Luis who addressed them knowledgeably and convincingly.

New Acoustics Group PhD student presents at Inter-noise

A paper written by new PhD student Suzana Zekic and her director of studies Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina  has been presented and published at Internoise 2019 conference. The paper was entitled “ Towards the determination of Acoustic Characteristics of ventilation Ducts in the Built environment”. The information  was effectively conveyed by Suzana and the presentation generated a fair amount of interest with follow up discussions and comments after the presentation.

Peter Mapp's busy Summer Schedule!

Visiting professor Dr Peter Mapp is scheduled to have a busy Summer and Autumn with abstracts submitted to the AES convention in New York on his research into stadium acoustics and two further abstracts submitted to the IOA’s Reproduced Sound conference relating to the measurement of speech intelligibility and his  research into the acoustics of churches. Peter is currently busy peer reviewing papers for the AES New York convention where he will also be giving a tutorial on Psychoacoustics and chairing several standards meetings on acoustics and audio. He is also currently working on a chapter on the intelligibility of sound systems for a soon to be published handbook on sound system design as well as working on completion of revisions to BS 7827 (sound systems design) and IEC standard BSEN60268-16  (measurement of speech intelligibility) which he also chairs.

LSBU IOA Diploma End of Exams Celebrations

The 2018-19 IOA Diploma students at LSBU celebrated on 7th June 2019 the end of the taught part of the course and the end of the final exams. The teaching team joined the celebrations at the LSBU Student Union and congratulate them for reaching this far in the course!

Richard Seaton awarded by Doctorate

On the 7th June 2019, PhD Candidate for the Open University Richard Seaton gave a robust defence his thesis. His work was on pitch drift in A Coppella singing which was examined by  Professor Stephen Dance of London South Bank University and Professor Patrick Gaydecki of Manchester University. Richard is a choir singer and a retired electronic engineer who is trying to understand ensemble conditions and the reasons for the pitch drift. Well done Richard