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!
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!
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!
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!
A Memorandum of understanding was informally agreed whereby Vanguardia will partner the Acoustics Group on a long term basis in future collaborations. This will begin with an offer of audiometry testing services for musicians. Jim Griffiths and David Trevor-Jones were shown the laboratory facilities and discussed mutually beneficial projects which we hope we can be a part of.
