Inter-Noise 2007 at Istanbul

An invited paper has been submitted for Inter-Noise 2007 at Istanbul by Bridget and Emma. The paper is on acoustic designs of Open-Plan schools. It's looking like a busy summer for the Acoustics Group research team!

ICA 2007 Madrid, 5 papers submitted

ICA 2007 in Madrid will be attended by Bridget, Steve, Georgia, Emma, Christos and Louis. Five abstracts have been submitted. All of us are looking forward to the largest acoustics conference of the calender.

KTP with Sound Research Laboratories and the Royal Academy of Music Submitted

A Knowledge Transfer Partnership grant application has been submitted in collaboration with Sound Research Laboratories and the Royal Academy of Music. The grant was developed to meet the new noise at work legislation, which is enforced for entertainment from April 2008. The idea is to protect the classical music students from excessive noise exposure from their own instruments. Fingers crossed.

New Acoustic Equipment from Norsonics

New acoustics equipment has been purchased for the Acoustics Lab. Norsonics gave the MSc Environmental and Architectural Acoustics students a demonstration of the latest developments on 13th March 2007. Since then, the Acoustics Group has purchased a Nor 121 dual channel real-time 1/3 octave analyser and a Nor 140 sound level meter. This equipment is reserved for the use of the researchers and postgraduate students.

Career Progress of this years MSc Acoustics Students

Great news, all of this years full-time MSc Environmental and Architectural Acoustics students have secured jobs. This year, this was achieved after 6 months of starting the course, an improvement of 3 months from last year. Well Done, but you haven't yet finished the course!

Low Noise Measurements in a Ticket Office

PhD students, Louis Gomez and Christos Nestoras collaborated on a project to establish the accuracy of low noise eSweep and MLS measurements at Telent's Bermondsey workshops on Wednesday 28th March 2007, to simulate an Underground ticket office. KTP public relations Stephanie Luxmore joined us to create content for the latest marketing brochure for London South Bank University. The KTP supervisors Sal Murano and Dr Stephen Dance where there with their employuee/student, Hussein Aied, who is studying on the MSc in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics.

Collaboration between the Acoustics Group and Royal Academy of Music

The Acoustics Group will be giving a seminar, to classical musicians of the Royal Academy of Music, on the dangers of excessive noise exposure during May 2007. In the next academic year, we will audiometrically test the hearing of all new students at the Royal Academy using our laboratory. This forms part of the risk assessment undertaken by JEM Safety Management

Urban Wind Turbines at Elephant and Castle

The Masters' students working in Acoustics and Sustainability are collaborating on a 'real' project to redevelop Elephant and Castle. The research is sponsered by Southwark Council, London South Bank University and Norsonics. Under the Mayor's 10% renewable energy policy new developments need sustainable options to be approved for planning. Wind energy is one such example. However, planning permission will only be given if noise annoyance in the community is acceptable. Currently, you can find us on the roof of buildings logging the background noise level before the installation of a test wind turbine, which should produce 6 kW of electricity

Telent plc Research for Tubelines sponsered by DTI

London Underground is being refurbished and updated.
Telent, ex-Marconi, is updating the Security, Emergency and Public Address systems.
London South Bank University specialises in speech intelligibility and architectural acoustics, so formed a partnership with Telent under the sponsership of the DTI using the KTP scheme. This started on 1st Feb 2007.
Heathrow was the first station to be investigated

Welcome to Acoustics at London South Bank University

Welcome to the Acoustics blog, part of the London South Bank University policy of keeping you informed of the progress of our research efforts. This efforts directly feed into the courses run by the Department of Engineering Systems, in particular the MSc in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics