We are delighted that our cumulative research over more than five years has recently been published in the International Journal of Ventilation. It represents a collaboration by Jack Harvie-Clark, Nick Conlan & Weigang Wei of Apex Acoustics with Mark Siddall of LEAP. Noise from domestic ventilation systems is currently a little understood problem in the…
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We were delighted to receive an Innovation Award at the Association of Noise Consultants Awards 2019 for our new acoustic design method for open plan offices. As well as the Innovation Award, the work was also “Highly Commended” in the Workplace Acoustics Awards category. This method also won a Soundscape award at the Palace of…
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We were delighted to receive the Building Acoustics Award at the Association of Noise Consultants Awards 2019 for The Houseboat, Poole project. The Houseboat is a single house located on a site overlooking Poole Harbour. Our project dealt with the challenge of achieving suitable acoustic conditions for living in this open plan home designed on…
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We presented our new method for the acoustic design of open plan offices at the annual Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference 2019, held in Milton Keynes. Our method is particularly suited to acoustic design in agile or activity-based working offices. Since we wrote this paper, we have updated and refined the method, which we will…
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16 – 20 hours per week, flexible hours and days, with opportunity to expand duties & work Salary: £ 20,000 – 30,000 pa, pro-rata, 8% company pension contribution and free lunch.  Location: Design Works, William Street, Gateshead, NE10 0JP. Main duties and responsibilities Book keeping, raising invoices, paying invoices and payroll, chasing debtorsSending equipment for…
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We are very excited to be co-creating this event in collaboration with Lisa Lavia from the Noise Abatement Society and Professor Jian Kang from University College London (UCL). We are designing the event to focus on overcoming traditional acoustic challenges to urban planning and development. The event takes place on Tuesday 25th June 2019 at…
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We are grateful that our article has been published in the Journal of Building Services Engineering Research & Technology, and we hope that this will raise the vital issues with a wider range of researchers. We were invited to submit an article following our paper for the CIBSE Symposium in 2018 at London South Bank…
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We welcome the Welsh Government’s Noise and Soundscape Action Plan 2018 – 2023.  The Welsh Government is the first national government in the world to embrace emergent thinking around noise and acoustics by referring to Soundscape in the title and throughout the action plan.  They have placed the requirement for good acoustic design and soundscape…
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As a member of the CIBSE Natural Ventilation Group, Jack Harvie-Clark is pleased to be presenting in a session entitled Acoustic issues in relation to Natural Ventilation.  Come and hear him talk about how we are developing guidance to assess the combined effects of noise and overheating by providing a reference for Planners and Environmental Health practitioners.  The…
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The Apex method for calculating the façade sound insulation is in accordance with BS 8233 and the principles of BS EN 12354-3.  Our paper and poster presentation, published in the Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics and available here, explains the derivation of the basic façade sound insulation equations presented below. The equations may not be applicable…
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