INCE-USA needs your help to select this year’s Members’ Choice Project of the Year Award. This award was created to acknowledge notable project(s) completed in the field of noise control or architectural acoustics by an Associate or Full Member of INCE-USA.
The winning project will receive recognition of their achievement and visibility on INCE-USA materials, such as conference materials, website, and social media.
Voting for the award is now open to members through May 20. Please join us in selecting a winner.
Eric Wood, George Maling, and Robert Hellweg are Fellows and Past Presidents of INCE-USA. Adnan Akay is Provost, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey and Gregg Fleming is Director of Policy, Planning, and Environment of the U.S. DOT Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. Together, they are the Technology for a Quieter America (TQA) Steering Committee. They plan and manage the TQA workshops. The TQA workshops are hosted by the National Academy of Engineering and organized by the INCE Foundation.
More than 100 noise control engineering experts have attended and made technical presentations at the TQA workshops. The experts share their knowledge with each other during the workshops. The presenters have represented industry, government agencies, consulting firms, and the general public. Eleven TQA workshops have been held during 2012 to 2021. A technical report has been prepared following each TQA workshop. The reports address each presentation made during the workshops.
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Hearing is believing! Metrolinx, the regional transit agency in Ontario, Canada, was looking to enhance communications with community stakeholders during public consultation for the portion of the proposed Ontario Line project which will operate in the GO Union Station and Lakeshore East rail corridors (referred to as the Lakeshore East Joint Corridor). AECOM was commissioned by Metrolinx to prepare an interactive sound demonstration to help answer two questions from local stakeholders: How much noise will come from passing trains once the Ontario Line opens? And how will this compare to the sound of today’s heavy commuter GO trains, currently passing through the neighbourhood?
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The Maxxon Acoustics Lab was conceived to be a world-class floor/ceiling testing facility. Maxxon's mission for the lab includes not only internal R&D research and collaboration with manufacturing partners, but also furthering basic research to benefit the acoustics field as a whole. Laboratory testing includes ASTM E90, ASTM E492, ASTM E2179, and ASTM E3133. The lab consists of two vertically stacked reverberation chambers designed to accommodate a 10' x 12' test assembly. The reverberation chambers both have an approximate volume of 300 cubic meters, making these the largest rooms in North America for testing the acoustical performance of floor-ceiling assemblies. Both the upper and lower reverberation rooms (walls floors and lids) are constructed from 12"-thick solid pre-cast concrete panels. The upper and lower rooms are isolated from each other and from the foundation at grade using Mason Industries natural rubber isolation pads with design natural frequencies raging from 6 to 8 Hz . The two reverberation chambers are contained inside a masonry enclosure separated by a 2" deep air space.
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The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design (Kendeda Building) is the first building in Georgia, the first building of its size and scale in the Southeast, and 28th in the world to earn Living Building Challenge (LBC) certification, the world’s most ambitious and holistic green building achievement. The certification from the International Living Future Institute (ILFI independently verifies that The Kendeda Building is among the greenest in the world. Rather than being less bad than conventional buildings, The Kendeda Building is regenerative. For example, its photovoltaic system supplies over 200% of the building's energy needs.
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