Based on an invitation by Dr Amer Ali, who is the coordinator of professional development and liaison officer for the IHE, ICE and CIHT, the President of the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE), Mr. Richard Hayes visited LSBU on Tuesday 19 November 2019 and gave a talk about the IHE and professional development to our final year BEng civil engineering students.

This was followed by a similar talk to our final year BSc civil engineering students, by the former President of the IHE, Mr. Steve Spender.

Every January, some of the best Institute of Acoustics (IOA) Diploma student final projects undertaken at the School of BEA, are presented by authors at the IOA London Branch meeting.

To add to that, a new IOA Diploma Student Final Project award competition was set up last year by course director Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina in collaboration with the IOA and the sponsor of the award, acoustics instrumentation manufacturer NTI-Audio.

At this year’s London Branch meeting held on 16 January 2020, two nominated finalists, of the first year of the competition, presented their work undertaken at LSBU in the last academic year (2018-19).

Paul Roberts presented his work on Sound Propagation From Lightwells and Jakub Hajko presented on Monitoring Aircraft Reduced Engine Taxi Using Sound Level Meters.

Charles Greene, General manager of NTI-Audio UK, presented the award and prize to the winner, Jakub Hajko.  

After the meeting and award ceremony we all went to the local pub to raise our glass

Congratulations to Luis Gomez, who was awarded SFHEA and to Steve Philips, who was awarded AFHEA.

The Delegation from the Internal Resources Division (IRD), Ministry of Finance, Bangladesh visited the School of the Built Environment and Architecture.

10 senior Bangladesh Government technical and vocation education officials visited the School of the Built Environment and Architecture. The delegation was met by Mr Daniel Janowski Business Development Manager, Prof John Ebohon Director of Internationalisation and Dr Issa Chaer- Director of Research and Enterprise for the School.

During the visit, Prof John Ebohon conducted a session on the role of Vocational Education in Economic Development and the process of institutionalising and embedding it in the system. The delegation was taken through the UK experience in supporting vocational education.

Dr Issa Chaer then spoke to the delegation about his experience of developing courses at London South Bank University and the importance of industry engagement, quality assurance, articulation and path route for development.

On Wednesday 11 December 2019, we visited Tarmac concrete mix factory. It was very interesting to see how the concrete is mixed first hand.

Our students were very engaged with experts from Tarmac, where logistics, materials and the sustainability aspect of their operation were discussed.

On Wednesday 20 November 2019, we visited the steel fabrication factory based in Hounslow, to gain an understanding of how they operate and to learn more about the challenges they face from a business point of view in the steel industry.

We saw a demonstration of a robotic arm used for welding end plates to a column, which sparked some interesting discussion within our industry.

On Wednesday 13 November 2019, we had the pleasure of taking our Civil Engineering students to visit a construction site on 90 Blackfriars Road, SE1.

It was a very valuable experience to understand site constraints, particularly working in central London. We will have to appreciate the logistics during and after construction as there are implications to consider in our design.

Thank you to United Living Group for accommodating this visit for the students.

Our LSBU Civil Engineering students visited Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe on Wednesday 16 October 2019.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was one of the most renowned Civil Engineers in history, and the students had the opportunity to celebrate his engineering triumph and learn about the history.

League table results were recently published by the Guardian and the Complete University Guide, these rankings indicate where we are in comparison to other universities and courses within the UK; please read on to find out how we did. Spoiler: we’re very pleased.

First up, the School’s courses…

Our Building Services courses have been ranked as the 12^th best in the UK by the Complete University Guide (up 11 places since last year) and our Construction, Property and Surveying courses have been ranked 18^th best in the UK by the Guardian (up 8 places since last year). Our courses have seen an average growth of 15 places since 2015, which is an average growth of 3 places per year. As they say, slow and steady wins the race!

London South Bank University went up 10 places in the Guardian League Table (68^th best in the UK) and went up 6 places in the Complete University Guide (87^th best in the UK).

Thank you to all our staff and students for their hard work this year – we couldn’t have done it

Mubarak Ismail, a PhD student within the School of the Built Environment and Architecture at LSBU, recently participated in a research presentation competition organised by the London Doctoral Academy at LSBU. Mubarak participated in the '3 minute thesis presentation' category and won first place and a prize of £500 towards research expenses. Click here to watch Mubarak's 3 minute presentation.

LSBU sent the video of the presentation to Vitae, if shortlisted then Mubarak will be given the opportunity to present live at the Vitae congress in Birmingham in September 2019. Learn more about Vitae by clicking here.

The Acoustics Team at Inter-Noise 2019

Every year the International Institute for Noise Control Engineering, organise a conference in the field of acoustics, www.internoise2019.org. This year it was held in Madrid, Spain, to coincide with the Spanish Acoustical Society's 50th anniversary. Between 16-19 June 2019 with Municipal Congress hosted the event where 1000 papers were presented to 1200 delegates representing 51 countries.

The Acoustics Group of London South Bank University decided that branding was key for marketing our courses. To this end, we had 11 delegates each wearing specially designed polo shirts. Our delegates included four former Masters students who presented their dissertation projects to an international audience, two current PhD candidates presenting their latest research, and three members of the teaching staff presenting their own ideas. We also had one current Masters student who wanted to experience the event and take advantage of the networking opportunity w