A new environmental sound level meter

The Acoustics Group have recently purchased a new environmental sound level meters. Its a type 2 unit, but it has limited abilities. The students will learn its limits!

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.