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!