Peter Mapp presents to the Acoustics Group

On 29th April Peter Mapp gave a well received seminar on speech intelligibility to the Acoustics Group. This kept Peter off his phone for 2 hours.!Many questions were answered, unfortunately many more arose. That's research!

Acoustics Group purchase Extech Noise Alert System

The Acoustics Group have purchased a Extech Noise Alert system for use by the Royal Academy of Music. We hope the music students take notice of the sign!

IoA Diploma students can save a year on MSc in Acoustics

Recent Institute of Acoustics Postgraduate Diploma students can now save up to a year when joining the MSc in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics. The Master qualification will then allow Chartership to be awarded by the Engineering Council in only 1 additonal year (part-time), assuming suitable industrial experience has been obtained. This scheme will be rolled out from September 2008 apply now

The Royal Academy of Music Noise Team present at Playsafe

The Royal Academy of Music Noise team presents at the Institute of Acoustics Playsafe seminar. Martin outlined risk assessment, Steve presented the results and Georgia answered the questions on noise exposure of classical music students. An excellent collaboration between JEM Safety, RAM and LSBU- Acoustics.

Steve Dance presents his results on urban wind turbines at Reading

Steve Dance presents his results at Reading University for the Institute of Acoustics. The paper was entitled, "Noise from a roof-top urban wind turbine in London". In summary, central London is noisy, its reasonably windy at roof-top level, vibrations were minimal, electrical generation efficiency of the turbine was 9%, turbines are non tonal and relatively quiet.

Phil Wash presents his iPod listening thoughts at Reading

Phil Wash presenting his Master dissertation to the delegates of the Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference. The paper was entitled, "iPod listening levels on London Underground for speech and music". To summarize, its ok to listening to speech, but not to music on the tube.

Christos Nestoras presents his auralisation ideas at Reading

Christos Nestoras presents his PhD work at the Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference, April 2008. The paper was entitled, "Computer model utilization for speeh intelligibility assessment in enclosed spaces using sound systems". The paper describe a way of accurately objectively assessing the accuracy of your auralisation. The auralisation gets across how the room will sound before it is built or after refurbishment to the non expert.

Acoustics Group deliver 5 Papers at IoA Reading

The Acoustics Group delivered 5 papers at the recent Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference including: Steve's Urban Wind Turbines, Phil's iPod listening levels, Christos's auralisations, Bridget's hearing loss of adults review, Salvador's classical musician noise exposure. I should also mention the excellent chairing by Emma and Anne. Thanks to you all.

Award for Dr Bob Peters

Dr Bob Peters was award the distinguished service medal for services to the Institute of Acoustics at the IoA Spring Conference held at Reading April 2008. He started in Applied Physics at Imperial College in 1962. Long suffering then...

14 LSBU Acousticians at IoA Spring Conference

The Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference was held at Reading 10/11th April 2008. The Acoustics Group had 15 diverse members in attendance including 3 Academics: Prof Shield, Dr Dance, Dr Peters; 6 MSc students Ian Sharps, Ioannis, Hussein Aied, Salva Morant, Phil Wash, Linda Liviani; 5 PhD student Christos Nestoras, Louis Gomez, Georgia Zepidou, Anne Carey, Emma Greenland; and finally 1 exhibitor from Rion, Bob from ANV, another MSc student.

Background Monitoring for Lambeth Urbines

The Acoustics Group have undertaken background noise and vibration monitoring for the installation of 4 new urban wind turbines - urbines on the Ethelred Estate. Lambeth council is following a plan to increase all round energy efficiency on 3 22 storey tower blocks.