Stephen Dance presents at Inter-Noise 2008

Dr Stephen Dance presented his paper, "Are simplified models good enough to predict the acoustics of Underground Stations? " at Inter-Noise 2008 on October 29th in the main hall of the congress. His paper was well received in the special Underground spaces session. Many interesting points were raised and contacts established.

Louis Gomez presents at Inter-Noise 2008

Louis Gomez presented his paper, "Evaluation of More Suitable Test Methodologies to Obtain RT and STI in London Underground Spaces " at Inter-Noise 2008 on October 29th in the main hall of the congress. His paper was well received in the special Underground spaces session. Useful contacts were made for Telent Ltd with the consultants working on Singapore and Turkey metro networks.

Chistros Nestoras presents in Shanghai

Christos Nestoras presented his paper, "Design and Validation of Computer Models for the Assessment of Speech Intelligibility in Enclosed Spaces " at Inter-Noise 2008 on October 28th in the main hall of the congress. His paper was well received in the Architectural Acoustics session.

Inter-Noise 2008 Shanghai

The Acoustics Group was represented by Dr Stephen Dance and his PhD students: Louis Gomez and Christos Nestoras at Inter-Noise 2008 Shanghai. Three papers were presented and links with Academics, Consultants and Instrumentation Guys were made. A successful and enjoyable conference for all!

Emma Greenland hands in PhD Thesis

On Monday 20th October 2008 Emma Greenland submitted 3 copies of her doctoral thesis on Open Plan Schools. Well done Emma, I hope Mike Barron, Raf Orlowski and Carl Hopkins likes it!

Hoare Lea visit to see our roof top wind turbines

Hoare Lea, the consultant engineers, came in strength to visit the roof-top urban wind turbines on Ashenden House, Elephant and Castle. Luckily the weather the fine and the Proven and Quiet Revolution turbines were spinning nicely.

Dosimetry at the Royal Academy of Music

On 16th October 2008 the Acoustics Group began measuring individual noise doses of students from the Royal Academy of Music. Georgia Zedpidou, Steve Dance and Ozge Can were taking dosimetry measurements. The harp appears noisy than we thought!