Joint M&I Group and Central Branch Measurement, Prediction and Assessment of Ground and Structure Borne Vibration and Groundborne Noise Thursday 3 July 2025 Building Research Establishment, Bucknalls Lane, Watford WD25 9XX - In person only
Joint M&I Group and Central Branch 
Measurement, Prediction and Assessment of Ground and Structure Borne Vibration and Groundborne Noise
Thursday 3 July 2025
Building Research Establishment, Bucknalls Lane, Watford WD25 9XX - In person only 

 

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Assessing and counteracting the ground and structure borne vibration issues arising from urban development is an ongoing challenge for the acoustics profession.

Temporary effects arise from demolition, general construction activities, piling and tunnelling. Measuring and controlling the effects of vibration can be particularly challenging when existing buildings share a party wall with the development/redevelopment site.

The pressure on land for residential and non-residential development has generated a need to build above and/or adjacent to railways. The need to be able to predict and optimally minimise the adverse groundborne vibration and noise effects upon future occupants is essential to ensure that these developments are fit for purpose.

This one day meeting aims to enable practitioners and academics to showcase how they have tackled (or are tackling) this challenging area of work and share lessons learned.

Programme 

09:30

Registration

10:00

Keynote Presentation 

Difficulties and uncertainties in the measurement, prediction and mitigation of groundborne noise and vibration in buildings

Rupert Taylor

10:30

Active source surface wave analyses for ground stiffness assessment

Matt Guy

11:00

Break

11:30

Building Base Isolation Design: Quantification of Vibration Transmission Using Power Flow Analysis

Hamid Masoumi and James Talbot

12:00

Crowd Induced Vibration from Outdoor Music Concerts – a Case Study

Dani Fiumicelli and Leo Fernandez Rodriguez

12:30

Lunch

13:15

Ground Vibration Live Measurement Exercise featuring the Seismic Mechatronics Lightning Seismic Vibrator

14:30

Second Break

15:00

A perspective on environmental vibration reduction by an array of masses.

Andrew Peplow

15:30

Implications of surface and sub-surface monitoring for the protection of buried assets from construction vibration

Chris Skinner, Saif Bunni, Sam Williams

16:00

Preliminary Measurement Results and Discussion

16:30

Close

 

Technical and organisational contacts

Mike Breslin (Technical) mbreslin@anv.uk.com

Sheema Ali (Organisational) sheema.ali@ioa.org.ukimage-20250411144427-2.png

When
03 Jul 2025 from  9:00 AM to  5:00 PM
Event Fee(s)
Event Fee(s)
IOA Members £85.00
IOA Early Careers £45.00
Students in full time education £45.00
Researchers £45.00
Senior Members £45.00
IOA Delegate Sponsors £60.00
Non-Members £150.00
Exhibition Fees
IOA Key Sponsors £0.00
IOA Sponsors £120.00
Non IOA Exhibitor £205.00
Event Fee(s)
IOA Members £85.00
IOA Early Careers £45.00
Students in full time education £45.00
Researchers £45.00
Senior Members £45.00
IOA Delegate Sponsors £60.00
Non-Members £150.00
Exhibition Fees
IOA Key Sponsors £0.00
IOA Sponsors £120.00
Non IOA Exhibitor £205.00