Rob Connetta Ghent Presentation

Rob Connetta, an EPSRC Research Fellow, gave his pilot results during his presentation. The paper was entitled, "A preliminary survey of noise levels in UK secondary schools"

16 LSBU Acousticians at Joint Anglo-Belgium Conference

On the 28/30th April 2010 the Institute of Acoustics and Belgium Acoustical Society held a joint conference at the Het Pand of Gent University. The conference was proposed by Prof Bridget Shield, the VP for International Relations at the Institute of Acoustics. The Acoustics Group presented 6 papers, 2 by Masters students - all were well received. I hope everyone had a great time and enjoyed the banquet in the Castle!

Campbell Associates Give Presentation

On 20th April 2010 John Campbell came to the Acoustic lab to demonstrate the latest equipment. The Microflown in-situ absoprtion measurement system was shown, as well as the new Cadna software. The Masters students asked their usual difficult questions...

Talk to RIBA Architects

On 13th April 2010 the South London branch of the RIBA invited Dr Stephen Dance to give a presentation to the architects concerning wind turbines. The talk covered rooftop wind turbines, turbine designs and any possible noise issues. Then we adjourned to the pub!

Royal Academy of Engineering Award

Ms Georgia Zepidou is a recipient of a Royal Academy of Engineering International Travel Grant. Georgia will use the award to fund a visit the conservatoires of Tokyo and then on to the Sydney for the International Congress on Acoustics!

Strata Building at Elephant and Castle

Three 17 kW integrated wind turbines are currently being installed at the top of the highest residential skyscapper in the UK. At 42 floors the Strata building's urbines are expected to produce 89 MWhr of electricity per year. That should be enough to power 30 flats, or generate £32,000 through the new feed-in tariff every year!

Integrated urbine measurement system

On the 30th March 2010 the first integrated urbine measurement system was installed on the rooftop of Kestrel House in Central London. On the 1st April the system was checked and the turbine had generated 66 kWh of electricity, with a feed-in tariff of 36p/kWh, that's £23 in two days!