On the 27th October 2010 the Institute of Acoustics held the preliminary meeting for the inaugural Senior Members Group gathering at London South Bank University. The meeting will be held at CEREB in Keyworth 2 on the afternoon of 27th January 2011. We are looking forward to seeing many old familiar faces!
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Institute of Acoustics Senior Meeting Organised
On the 27th October 2010 the Institute of Acoustics held the preliminary meeting for the inaugural Senior Members Group gathering at London South Bank University. The meeting will be held at CEREB in Keyworth 2 on the afternoon of 27th January 2011. We are looking forward to seeing many old familiar faces!
Sunday, 24 October 2010
Anemometry at Haringey Council Offices
On 21st October 2010 an anemometer was erected on Haringey Council office block to measurement the wind speed over the course of November. This 10 storey block near Alexandra Palace will be used to install a Wind Simplicity urban wind turbine. Background noise and vibration measurements are being simultaneously logged on the roof top.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Masters Student awarded Cancun Travel Grant
On the 20th October 2010 John Zeman was awarded an Acoustical Society of America travel grant to go to the 2nd Pan-American /Iberian Meeting in Cancun on 15-19th November 2010. Wish I was going with you!!!
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Wind Turbine Trial Success
On the 18th October 2010, after 3 years and 3 months, the Ashenden House wind turbine trial at Elephant and Castle was successfully completed. Two turbines were involved a 6 kW Proven and a 6 kW Quiet Revolution. We have learnt alot, especially how to cut are way in on occasion!
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Campbell Associates Give Demonstration
On 14th October 2010 Lee Bearman of Campbell Associates gave a guest demonstration of the latest Norsonics equipment to the Masters students. The result of which was the purchase of a Nor 140 sound level meter
Noise Mapping Guest Lecture
Many thanks goes to David Winterbottom, the distributor of Soundplan, who gave a guest lecture to the Masters students on 13th October 2010. LSBU have an original copy copy of noise mapping software which we hope to upgrade to Windows!
Friday, 1 October 2010
New Research Fellow Joins the Acoustics Group
On the 1st October 2010 Luis Gomez joined the Acoustics Group as a Research Fellow. Louis was a KTP Associate with Telent (formerly Marconi). His research revolves around Speech Intelligibility. Welcome Luis.
New Urban Wind Turbine Trial Gets Underway
On the 1st October 2010 on the rooftop of Haringey Council the initial background noise and vibration measurements were taken on River Bank House. a 10 storey building. A Wind Simplicity Windancer 7 turbine will in installed shortly!
New PhD student joins the Acoustics Group
On the 1st October 2010 the Acoustics Group welcomed Nick Durup to the research fold! Nick is from SharpsRedmore acoustic consultants and will work on the Acoustics of Schools. Welcome!
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