Poster Presented at Energy in the City

On 24th June 2010 a poster by the Acoustics Group was presented at Energy in the City. The paper was on acoustics and sustainability, in particular rooftop urban wind turbines and noise mapping. The work was presented by Dr Stephen Dance and is part of a KTP project with Capita Symonds.

Conference Opened By Mayor Boris

On the 23rd June 2010 the CEREB was formally opened by Mayor Boris Johnson. CEREB is the Centre for the Efficient and Renewable Energy in Building. This formed part of the Energy in the City conference held at London South Bank University. Boris was very entertaining and made the most of the England win!

Student wins Newman Bradford Award 2010

Nick Durup won the Newman best student dissertation for his Masters project on, "An investigation into acoustic modelling, design and testing of a professional music rehearsal facility". The Robert Bradford Newman Medal is for excellence in the study of acoustics and its application to architecture. The prize will be awarded by the Acoustical Society of America. Nick presented his work at the joint IoA/Belgium Acoustical Society in Ghent. Well done Nick!

EPSRC Industrial Case Award

On 21st June 2010 the London Development Agency agreed to support an EPSRC Industrial Case award. The award was for the monitoring and analysis of the new Strata Building with the pioneering integrated wind turbines.

New Anemometer Purchased

A new, and much cheaper, anemometer has been purchased for testing by the Acoustics Group in collaboration with Capita Symonds. The Power Predictor is a 2D wind speed and direction anemometer. It is available for £150.

New Research Fellow Appointment

On 1st October 2010 Louis Gomez will join the Acoustics Group as a Research Fellow. He will strengthen the research group in the area of speech intelligibility. Louis was formerly a KTP Associate with Telent plc. Welcome Louis!

Acoustics Group at the Royal Society

On 8th June 2010 two Acoustics Group KTP projects were presented at a Knowledge Transfer Network event held at the Royal Society. The two projects were concerned with improving the speech intelligibility on London Underground and mitigating noise exposure of Classical Musicians. Afterwards discussions took place over a glass or two!