New Recruits on the IoA Dilpoma course

This year's Institute of Acoustics Diploma students, a cohort of 18 keen and enthusiastic people eager to learn! We all hope they learn, laugh and make life time friendships.

New recruits on the Masters programme

The 2017 cohort of Masters student on the Environmental and Architectural Acoustics course. We hope they all enjoy their time with us and learn how fun acoustics can be!

IOA Certificate of Competence 2017 Recruits

Between the 2nd and 13th October the Acoustics Group enrolled 13 students on the Institute of Acoustics Certificate of Competence for Environmental Noise Measurement. The course team, lead by Luis Gomez-Agustina with the assistance of Stephen Dance and Haydar Aygun. We hope they all enjoyed the course and wish them the best of luck with their exams!

First dry wall construction workshop for Acousticians

The first hands-on dry wall construction sound insulation  workshop for Acousticians has been held at Building Research Establishment (BRE) lab facilities on 27 September 2017. The fully subscribed event has been organised through a collaboration between the IOA London Branch, BRE and Knauf. Ex LSBU MSc acoustic student  Eugenie Sainte Cluque, Luis Gomez-Agustina (LSBU) and Peter Turner of Assured Acoustics, attended as the organisation team. The workshop has been a clear success and there are plans to run it again

Luis Gomez-Agustina to presented to the IOA London Branch

On the 18th October 2017 Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina will give a presentation to the Institute of Acoustics London Branch. His talk will be on the question of, "Do performance musicians need acoustic education?". I hope you can join us at WSP HQ on Chancery Lane at 6pm!

Acoustic Group features on IOA Blog

An short article by Luis Gomez-Agustina has been published on the September 2017 issue of the Institute of Acoustics (IOA) Blog http://www.ioa.org.uk/acoustics-and-music-forgotten-link The article adds to the interesting and varied topics published in that blog. We hope you enjoy the article and participate (if applicable) in the questionnaires    

London Heliport presentation to the consultative committee

On 18^th September 2017 some results from the London heliport noise study were presented  by Luis Gomez-Agustina to the consultative group at Wandsworth Town. Subjective and objective results showed a high incidence on a large number of affected residents by noise generated from the London Heliport operation. The presentation was received with avid interest and was followed by many questions and lively discussions.

We hope to continue working with the three boroughs to help control and minimise helicopter noise disturbance. Spl please watch this space.