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Noise in the Built Environment
- Date:
- Thursday 29 April 2010 - Friday 30 April 2010
- Venue:
- Ghent University
Description
Organised jointly by the Association of Belgian Acoustical Association and Institute of Acoustics, and supported by the European Acoustics Association as an EAA Symposium.The meeting is being held in the attractive riverside town Ghent, easily reached by Eurostar. The venue is 'Het Pand', a beautiful old conference centre of the University of Ghent.
The institution is one of three large Flemish universities, and a major university in the Dutch-speaking region of Europe.
Accommodation
The Institute of Acoustics in association with Eventfixers has arranged special rates at selected hotels for delegates requiring overnight accommodation on the 28-29 April 2010. This is a free service and booking confirmations will be sent to both delegates and hotel by return.These rates are valid only if bookings are made directly through Eventfixers before 28 March 2010.
Please see document below
Travel
HOW TO GET TO GHENT?Ghent lies at the intersection of the E17 and the E40 motorways and is therefore easily accessible by car or coach. With two railway stations in the city and the international ‘Brussels Airport’ at Zaventem less than an hour’s drive away, arrival by train or plane are certainly easy options.
BY TRAIN
Ghent is easy to reach by train from all Belgian and European cities and is only half an hour from Brussels South Station. Thanks to the high-speed Eurostar and Thalys trains, you can travel from Ghent to Paris in barely 2 hours and to London, Amsterdam and Cologne in less than 3 hours.
The two main stations in Ghent are:
Gent-Sint-Pieters Station
from here tram no. 1 will take you direct to the city centre (Korenmarkt)
Dampoort Station
from here trolleybus no. 3 and the buses 17, 18, 38 and 39 will also take you direct to the city centre (Korenmarkt)
From Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station you can reach be in station Brussels Zuid in a half an hour (by 'IC' Inter City or 'IR' InterRegio train). Here the Eurostar and Thalys high-speed trains can rush you to Paris (1½ hours) and London, Amsterdam or Cologne (2½ hours).
BY AIR
Ghent is only 45 minutes from the international airport of Zaventem 'Brussel Airport', where flights arrive from and depart to more than 70 destinations.
On the lowest level you will find the airport’s own railway station, Brussel-Nationaal-Luchthaven, accessible by lift and escalator from the arrivals hall. There are several connections to Ghent.
Brussels South/Charleroi airport is 70 minutes from Ghent. There are more than 20 bus connections from the airport to the capital every day. From there frequent train connections to Ghent are available. There are also bus connections from the airport to Charleroi-Sud railway station. Trains for Ghent can also be boarded there. A ticket that combines the bus and train services can be purchased at the Airport Ticket Desk.
The other Belgian airports (Ostend, Antwerp and Liège) receive flights from various European cities and have easy direct connections to Ghent.
Directions to the University attached in documents
