Association of Noise Consultants Awards

On the 27th June 2018 the Association of Noise Consultants held their annual award ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Birmingham. Dr Stephen Dance was one of a panel of judges with the event hosted by our guest speaker Dr Hugh Hunt of Trinity College, Cambridge. A wonderful evening was held made better by the excellent work presented by the acoustic industry!

New External Examiner for the Acoustics Courses

Dr Shahram Taherzadeh from the Open University will become the external examiner for the acoustics course at London South Bank University in 2018/19. He will review our Masters courses and our upcoming HNC in Acoustics!

1st Committee Meeting of the Biomedical Acoustics Group

On the 6th June 2018 the EPSRC funded UK Acoustics Network Specialist Interest Group for Biomedical Acoustics meets it's 1st meeting. The meeting was hosted by London South Bank University with Prof. Anna Barney leading the group. A total of 7 academics from across the world - thanks to Skype, convened to discuss future plans to grow the group!

1st Workshop on Sound Exposure of Musicians

On the 5th June the UKAN Network for Communications and Room Acoustics held it's first workshop. The workshop was held at London South Bank University and focused on Sound Exposure of Musicians. Nineteen delegates attended the event from academic, industry and leading orchestras, venues and broadcasters.  We hope this will be the first of a series of six workshops, so watch this space!

MSc student Carl Ruegger wins Newman Medal

Carl Ruegger a student on the London South Bank University Masters in Architectural and Environmental Acoustics course was awarded the prestigious Acoustical Society of America Newman Award. Carl's MSc thesis was entitled, "The production of transparent absorbers using the principle of  micro-perforation".  Well done Carl!

MSc student Jamie Spary wins ASA Newman Medal

On the 1st June 2018 Masters student Jamie Spary was awarded the Acoustical Society of America Newman Medal for Architectural Acoustics. Jamie's thesis was entitled, "Acoustic absorption at discrete angles using a PU Sensor". Well done Jamie!

Dr Dance presents Heliports at Euronoise

Dr Stephen Dance presented the research on London Heliport at Euronoise 2018 in Hersonissos, Crete. The paper summarised the work undertaken on helicopter noise and was entitled, "An investigation of the noise from London Heliport and the effect on the local residents". The paper produced a lot of discussion of how to model and predict noise from helicopters. The second part of the paper will be presented by Dr Gomez-Agustina at ICSV 25 in Japan this summer.

The Acoustics Group at Euronoise 2018

Over 5 days the latest Euronoise conference was held at the Creta Maris Beach Resort in Hersonissos, Crete, 27-31st May 2018. The Acoustics Group presented 6 papers on our latest research and were invited to participate in a new harmonised European standard on The Acoustics of School and Learning Environments. The conference was beautiful organised and well run with lots of opportunities to network. More island based conferences is a good idea!

Prof Shield presents on Harmonisation of Classroom Standards

On the final day of the Euronoise conference Professor Shield presented a paper to Euronoise in the session on Harmonisation of classroom acoustic standards in Europe. Her paper was entitled, "Regulation of school acoustics in the UK recent revisions of Building and School premises regulations and their application". The presentation lead to many questions on the EU situation of the UK and the possible ways forward!

MSc student Jerry Rees presents at Euronoise

On 31st May 2018, MSc student Jerry Rees presented to the international conference, Euronoise, in Crete. He presented the results from his dissertation thesis as supervised by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina on, "Assessment of ground borne vibration from underground trains on a proposed residential development". He handled questions from the audience on Dr Hugh Hunt's Pipe in Pipe model exceptionally well!

Impact of Poor Acoustic Design of Classrooms

On Tuesday 29th May 2018 Professor Shield presented at Euronoise 2018 in Crete. The paper presented was entitled, "Capturing the impacts of poor classroom acoustics in high school pupils". This was based on an EPSRC funded project in collaboration with Salford University and UCL Institute of Education. It opened up a number of questions from the audience! 

Doug Presents at Euronoise on Low Frequency Absorbers

At the European Acoustical Association meeting Euronoise, May 27-31st 2018, PhD candidate Doug Shearer presenting his initial results of his research. In a session specifically on Acoustics and Elastic Metamaterials Doug presented his paper entitled, "Towards a novel acoustic absorber using magnetically induced geometric nonlinearity in an  elastic membrane". He managed this without the use of mathematics!

Prof Shield Presents at Euronoise on Teacher's Voice

On the 28th May 2018 at the Euronoise conference hosted by the Hellenic Acoustical Society in Crete. Professor Shield gave a paper entitled, "The effects of classroom acoustics, particularly low frequency noise, on the teacher's voice". This was a summary of one of the key results of Nick Durup's thesis. Lots of issues were raised!