New President at the Institute of Acoustics
The Institute of Acoustics (IOA) is pleased to announce the appointment of John Hinton OBE as its new President for a two-year period. John takes over from Colin English of The English Cogger Partnership.
John Hinton started work at 16 at the National Physical Laboratory, firstly as a Scientific Assistant and rose through the ranks to the post of Assistant Experimental Officer in his early twenties. He then moved to Birmingham and has worked for Birmingham City Council exclusively on noise issues ever since.
He is particularly well-known as a noise mapping guru and his present post as Special Projects Officer, Noise, means he is lead officer on the production of noise maps and action plans for noise management in Birmingham.
John, who is a Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics, has been a very active supporter of the Institute since he became a member in 1980. He has been Chairman of the Midlands Branch of the Institute since its inception and was Chairman of the Institute’s Working Party on Noise from Pubs and Clubs, which produced the IOA’s “Good Practice Guide on the Control of Noise from Pubs and Clubs”.
Outside the IOA John is currently Chairman of the National Ambient Noise Committee of the Environmental Protection UK and is an advisor on environmental noise matters (particularly noise mapping) for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He has also been Chairman of the European Commission Working Group on Noise Mapping from 1998-2002 and Chairman of the European Commission’s Working Group for the Assessment of Exposure to Noise from 2002-2005. He is currently Chairman of the European Environment Agency’s Working Group on Assessment of Exposure to Noise.
In 2005, he received the well-deserved national honour of an OBE for “Services to Noise Assessment”.
On taking up his appointment, John commented, “I am both very honoured and highly delighted to become the President of such a respected and vibrant institution. The Institute has come a long way since I joined. There are many exciting developments taking place and I look forward to working with all at the IOA to develop the Institute further.”
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