Ecophon Acoustic Bulletin

A full report on all the interviews and articles made on Acoustic Bulletin during the Euronoise 2009 conference in Edinburgh last week in October is directly accessible here

Posted by Marc Janssen at 3:19 PM
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On behalf of all editors of Acoustic Bulletin we would like to thank all readers, the IOA conference organisers, all those we have met at the Ecophon stand and especially those who we have had interviews with. We trust that your inputs will be of great value to many and we look forward to keep in touch. See you, and we hope to catch up again in the near future.....

Alexey, Paulli, Holger, Tobias, Rainer, Jonas, Katrin, Martin, Anthony, Mikolaj, Guus, Mariëlle, Erling, Nils-Åke, Marc and Colin

Continue reading "Thank you Edinburgh and goodbye Euronoise 2009....." »

Posted by Colin Campbell at 11:33 AM
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Andrew Parkin

Jonas Christensson made an interview with Andrew Parkin, Technical Director at RPS. They met shortly after Andrew had finished his lecture and Jonas grasped the opportunity to ask him a couple of questions.

Question 1:
What are the most important things to consider when we should create a good sound environment in open plan offices?
Listen to Andrew's answer (1,20 minutes)

Question 2:
How do we solve the need of concentration in open plan offices?
Listen to Andrew's answer (2,20 minutes)

More about Andrew Parkin or RPS Group:
Andrew Parkin - Technical Director, Birmingham Newland House - P&D
Tel: +44 (0)121 456 1560
Email: Andrew.Parkin@rpsgroup.com

Posted by Marc Janssen at 3:34 PM
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Stephen Dance
Colin Campbell managed to meet up with Stephen Dance, (Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University) between his papers and chairing of sessions on Tuesday.

Please listen to Stephen explaining this unique product innovation and how it works;

Continue reading "A new type of absorber for use by classical musicians in rehearsal rooms" »

Posted by Colin Campbell at 1:12 PM
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Alan Knibb
Colin Campbell is talking to Alan Knibb, Senior Engineer in Asset Management with Essex County Council about his specific interest in in prioritising classroom acoustics for children with special hearing requirements.

Please listen to the interview;

Interview now in full, appologies for previous technical issue which cut the interview short.

Continue reading "A Local Authority who prioritise acoustics in classrooms" »

Posted by Colin Campbell at 1:09 PM
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Nils-Åke Andersson

CEN/TC 126, Building acoustics, has created a working group, WG 11, to develop Test Codes for suspended, acoustic ceilings. WG 11 started its work about a year ago with Nils-Åke Andersson from Saint-Gobain Ecophon as convener and has now about 15 participants from around Europe. The reason doing this work is the problems with differences in measurement results from laboratories.He is interviewed by Guus Klamerek, concept developer - education for the Benelux.

Listen to the interview to find out more about the test codes (1:25 minutes)

One of the duties of working group is to work with Round Robin Tests.
Listen here to what that actually means. (2 minutes)

Posted by Marc Janssen at 12:40 PM
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Monika Rychtarikova

Shortly after her presentation, Monika Rychtarikova was interviewed by Marielle Klijn.
The title of her presentation was: "speech transmission index and articulation index in the context of open plan offices".

One of the conclusions of her session is that reverberation time is not an adequate quantity to fully describe the acoustical comfort.

Please find out more by listening to the interview:

Posted by Marc Janssen at 6:05 PM
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Jonas Christensson, Concept Developer - Offices

Martin Lindholm took some time to interview Jonas Christensson about his lecture to take place at the afternoon session of acoustics of enclosed spaces. Martin asked him about the essence of his presentation. Main question is: "Is it possible to create a good working environment in an open plan office"? Jonas also discussed the future of open plan offices.

Please listen to the interview and find out more (2:40 minutes)

Posted by Martin Lindholm at 5:48 PM
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Erling Nilsson

A couple of hours before his lecture, titled Room Acoustic Design of Open Plan Offices, Erling is interviewed by Pauli Pallaskorpi. Please listen to the interview (2:30 min)

Posted by Marc Janssen at 4:15 PM
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Arianna Astolfi

Arianna Astolfi, from researcher in Building Physics and building services at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, was presenting the results on speech intelligibility and measurements performed in a primary laboratory-classroom before and after a sound absorption acoustical treatment.

She concluded that the correlation between speech intelligibility and objective parameters are obtained for children of different age and also that the intelligibility decreases due to the reverberation.

Continue reading "Comparison of two primary school classrooms before and after acoustical treatment" »

Posted by Martin Lindholm at 4:12 PM
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During the afternoon of Tuesday 27th, a session is planned on Acoustic Comfort in Architecture. One of the presentations looks at room acoustic design in open plan offices. Erling Nilsson and Björn Hellström wrote the paper called Room acoustic design of open plan offices

Erling explains: An increasing amount of acousticians dive for the definition of room acoustic parameters that best support the activities performed by the people in the room ( RAC™). The subjective experience of people is becoming leading in acoustical design.

Posted by Marc Janssen at 4:12 PM
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Gudrun Jonsdottir

One of the participants at EuroNoise 2009 is Gudrun Jonsdottir, acoustician at EFLA, Iceland. At the conference, I had the opportunity to talk to her about noise control in hospitals in Iceland.

What is the situation in Iceland when it comes to hospital buildings; do people think the sound environment is important?
Hospital staff and patients make complaints about the sound environment, I must say. They are aware of the problems it causes, like tiredness and irritation. But they do not know what to do about it.

And what do you think, is it important to work with acoustic and noise control in hospitals?Yes, definitely. There are a lot of studies that shows that good room acoustics can, for example, lower medication requirements and decrease the number of days patients stay in the hospital. We have a lot of evidence that it is really important.?

Continue reading "Acoustic and noise control in hospitals – an important subject in Iceland" »

Posted by Katrin Bergmark at 12:19 PM
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The Euronoise programme includes almost every aspect of acoustics. This 3 day event covers topics such as noise control, standards in acoustics, occupational noise and influence of sound on human beeings.

Anthony Thomas(on the right) standing here with Jian Kang

Of particular interest is the section “Room acoustics in hospitals”....

Continue reading "A preview on Lectures" »

Posted by Marc Janssen at 5:23 PM
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John Hinton, President of the Intitute of Acoustics

Shortly after lunch we had a quick chat with John Hinton, President at the Institute of Acoustics in the UK and organiser of the Euronoise conference in Edinburg this year. In a short interview he shares with him the first impressions and what's more to come. Having met John Hinton at last years Euronoise conference in Paris, it's nice to hear and see him again

Please listen to the interview.

Posted by Marc Janssen at 3:43 PM
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The lower levels of the conference building have been organised into a huge meeting and exhibition area. Also here is where the lunches and coffee breaks are being organised.

Continue reading "Some impressions from the exhibition area" »

Posted by Marc Janssen at 3:16 PM
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The entrance to the conference early this morning

Around 800 particpants from all over Europe will be present at the Euronoise Conference 2009. This morning at 09.00 the opening of the exhibition area and the plenary session formed the start of a 3 day conference on acoustics. Stands at the exhibition area were completed and manned and people urged to the first sessions.

Posted by Marc Janssen at 2:19 PM
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From the 26th to 28th October, Ecophon will bring live reports from the Euronoise conference in Edinburgh on Acoustic Bulletin.

Stay tuned for regular updates, either through RSS feed or just visit www.acousticbulletin.com

WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN EDINBURGH?

Continue reading "ecophon live @euronoise" »

Posted by Marc Janssen at 2:11 PM
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Euronoise is the European conference on noise control, co-ordinated by the EAA Technical Committee Noise and organised by a national acoustical society on behalf of the European Acoustics Association (EAA).
Edinburgh in Scotland is the setting for the 8th European Conference on Noise Control

Continue reading "Euronoise 2009 (Edinburgh) 26-28 October" »

Posted by Colin Campbell at 12:01 PM
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