The LSBU Hub has been shortlisted for a World Architecture Festival 2023 ‘Completed Buildings: Retrofit award’. The winners will be announced between 29^th November – 1^st December in Singapore. The link to the category is below.

https://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/search/?_sft_waf_year=2023&_sft_waf_category_status=shortlist&_sft_waf_category=waf-completed-buildings-higher-education-and-research

There is further information here and in this Guardian story on the World Architecture Festival awards.

Please also see the following tweet and links on Twitter and LinkedIn promoting the brilliant news that LSBU Hub has been shortlisted for a World Architecture Festival award.

The IHE and PWI Student Awards event was held on Tuesday 4 July 2023 at the Keyworth Centre, LSBU.

The former Director of the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) and the Technical Director of the Permanent Way Institution (PWI, The Institution for Rail Infrastructure Engineering) presented prizes to our students based on grades and professional commitment/membership, and they also gave talks about their institutions and professional development.

Congratulations to all students who were awarded prizes.

An article has been recently published on Acoustics, a high quality peer-reviewed scientific journal by the reputed Open Access publisher MDPI. 

The article is entitled Non-special loudspeakers as speech test sources in natural acoustics speech intelligibility investigations and is freely accessible from the journal website and from this link https://www.mdpi.com/2624-599X/5/3/38.

It has been authored by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina and co-authored by Dr Haydar Aygun and Ms Liji Suseela Thankom Mohan. The work has attracted 137 views within 24h since publication; likely due to its real-world application in the concerned industry. The authors expect that the novel findings of this study will inform practitioners on the suitability of affordable loudspeakers when standardized special test loudspeakers are not available. We hope you enjoy the read.

Please see here for a story published about Alexa Skillet-Moore's recent win at the Women in Property South East awards:LSBU Engineering student wins at South East Women in Property Student Awards | London South Bank University

Dr. Amer Ali said: “This is a renewal of the original partnership agreement which I developed in 2016 between London South Bank University (LSBU) and the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), one year after I created the major professional development scheme for LSBU civil engineering students in 2015, which I have been coordinating and teaching since then. The partnership is very important for promoting the professional development of our staff and students and to ensure that our students graduate with the highest achievable knowledge and skills to develop safe and sustainable projects. It is a growing and expanding partnership, and one of its success indicators is the increasing number of our student membership of the ICE which has reached 90% and continues to grow”.

The LSBU-ICE academic-professional partnership agreement is one of four similar partnerships that Dr. Ali developed and signed with the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE), the Chartered Institution of Highways and Tran

Title: Point of Creation: Exploring practices at the limit of the ‘analogue’ and ‘digital’ in architecture

Speakers: 5

Attendees: 25

Summary: The evolution of digital technology has brought us to a watershed moment that requires radical redefinition of the meaning of architectural design and our understanding of the process of creation. New tools impact the practice of architecture and the role of the architect must be redefined. This symposium invited the speakers to examine the challenges and opportunities emerging from new digital processes and platforms to contemporary design and drawing in the field of architecture.

Photo: Dr Elisavet Hasa presenting her research on digital infrastructures of solidarity care

The Symposium took place on 9th June 2023. 

Apprentice Ella Northby who is on the L6 BEng Civil Engineering degree has won: The European Women In Construction & Engineering Awards ‘Best Young Women Engineer’ Award!

Ella was in the first Apprenticeship HNC Civil Engineering cohort in 2018 and was fast tracked onto the BEng Civil Degree Apprenticeship in 2020 and is continuing to do well with the ongoing support from Carlos Gonzalo and Simon Leung.

Congratulations to Ella on behalf of the School of BEA.

For further information, click the following link

On Wednesday, 24th of May 2023, LSBU proudly presented an inaugural lecture by Professor Chris Harty, as part of the university’s inaugural lectures programme for 2022-23.

Professor Harty was appointed as LSBU's new Dean of the School of Built Environment & Architecture in June 2022.

The inaugural lecture was a huge success and was widely attended and during the lecture Professor Harty focused on the impact of technology on design & construction.

Please see below for further details on Professor Harty’s inaugural lecture.

Digital Technologies in Design and Construction

Past, Present and Futures

By Professor Chris Harty, Dean, School of the Built Environment and Architecture, LSBU

Description: There is no doubt that the last two decades have seen an explosion of possibilities and practices around integrating and collaborative digital technologies within design and construction. This has been accompanied by a similarly extensive political and industry commentary on technology’s promi

On 22 May 2022 BEA PhD student Mubarak Abdelrasoul Elnour Ismail successfully passed* his PhD Viva examination.

Mubarak's PhD project and his thesis are entitled: Optimization of Thermal Outputs from Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Based Heat Pump.

Mubarak defended his thesis outstandingly well during the three hour questioning and scrutiny session.

Both examiners have agreed on the recommended outcome :That Mubarak be awarded  a PhD degree subject to minor amendments being made to the thesis.

Congratulations from the School of BEA and CCiBSE go to Mubarak! And also deserved congratulations are due to his supervisory team: Prof. Dr Issa Chaer (Director of studies); Dr Abas Hadawey (Second supervisor) and Assoc. Prof Dr Alex Paurine (Third supervisor).  

The School is grateful to the Viva examination chair Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina, External Examiner: Dr Raya Al- Dadah and Internal Examiner: Prof Dr Yuntin Ge for agreeing to participate in the examination

Very well done Mubarak and all the best w

Please click here to find out more about an article, by LSBU apprentice architect, Basil Anuar. 

Please click here for details on an article about an LSBU graduate, who has appeared in a major Welsh news website.

On 11th May 2023 Dr Haydar Aygun  gave a talk at the Institute of Acoustics (IOA) May 2023 London Branch held at London South Bank University.  The talk was delivered in person and simultaneously streamed online to a remote audience. Haydar’s talk was entitled Acoustic wave propagation through natural and conventional porous materials and covered his past and present research work around vibration, sound radiation, and acoustic attenuation mechanism of sound absorbing materials.

Please read here for the full article in Dezeen, titled: "Gender pay gap worsens at biggest UK architecture studios". The article features quotes from BEA's Head of  Architecture, Professor Igea Troiani. 

The BEA International Student Event took place on Friday 17th March 2023. 

The event was hosted by Professor John Ebohon, on behalf of the School of BEA and allowed an exciting opportunity for the School/'s International students to gather with staff, in order to interact and get to know each other in a face-to-face setting, enjoy some refreshments, gain some helpful expert advice/ tips from experienced members of the School and find out more about where students can get assistance and help if required during their academic journey with LSBU and the School of BEA.

The event was a huge success and was attended by Dean Chris Harty, Associate Dean - Research and Enterprise Professor Issa Chaer, among other colleagues.

Thank you to everyone who attended the event and to Aleya Islam who organised the event. 

Additional photos from the event

Dr. Amer Ali said: “The Partnership between London South Bank University (LSBU) and the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) is a culmination of the extensive and deep collaboration between the two institutions which I started when I joined LSBU in 2011. It is important for promoting the professional development of staff and students and to equip our students with the highest achievable knowledge and skills. To give an example of the level of collaboration, I was honoured to invite and welcome three presidents of the IHE (Mr. Steve Spender, Mr. Richard Hayes, and Mr. Martin Polland) to visit LSBU and talk to our transport and civil engineering students on a number of occasions. I am the Vice Chair of the IHE Greater London Branch which I re-launched with a colleague from the industry, Mr. Luke Meechan, the current chair”.

This LSBU-IHE academic-professional partnership agreement is one of four similar partnerships that Dr Ali developed and signed with the Institution of Civil Engineers

Article found in LSBU News:

London South Bank University (LSBU) students, John Taylor and Oluwafemi Ayodele (both studying BSc Architectural Technology) and Basal Shah (studying MSc Construction Project Management) came third at the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Bright Futures Challenge.

The Bright Futures Challenge is an annual competition run by the Chartered Institute of Building that gives an opportunity for students develop and use their creative thinking, analytical, technical and teamwork skills. The LSBU Built Environment and Architecture School team competed against other universities and were given a live project to work on with a range of Construction and Engineering scenarios and challenges. The LSBU team proposed solutions to the Construction and Engineering challenges and pitched their recommendations to a judging panel of eight industry experts.

John Taylor who is studying BSc Architectural Technology at LSBU said, “The day went fast, and it was extremely enjoya

Dr. Amer Ali said: “This partnership, which is a formal certification and recognition of the continuing and growing collaboration between LSBU and PWI, strengthens and supports the mission of both LSBU and PWI to ensure that graduate engineers have the best academic and professional qualifications they need to be competent and skilful in their engineering career”. This academic-professional partnership agreement is one of four similar partnerships that Dr Ali developed and signed with the ICE, CIHT, IHE and PWI. Dr Ali who is specialised in highway and transportation engineering has developed and taught various transport courses and modules including railways, highways and traffic engineering, in addition to coordinating and teaching a major professional development scheme for LSBU civil engineering students which he created in 2015. “These are within my mission and capacity as a Fellow of the above four PEIs, a Lead Reviewer for the CEng/IEng professional qualifications, and a member

Colin Alden, student of the 2021-22 MSc in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics at LSBU has recently won the prestigious Acoustical Society of America R. B. Newman student medal. The program honors outstanding students at schools of architecture and architectural engineering throughout the world.

Colin’s final project dissertation was supervised by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina and was entitled “A study on sound propagation from rifle muzzle devices”.

The research work investigated for the first time the sound propagation and directivity characteristics from modern rifle muzzles. It was selected by the prize panel for having demonstrated excellence in this discipline and in the application of acoustical design principles in the course of their study. Colin and Luis are preparing a journal article based on the research with plans to be published in mid 2023.

The end of year event aimed at showcasing postgraduate research currently carried out at the School of Built Environment and Architecture (BEA). Part-time PhD student Suzana Zekic of the Civil and Building Services Engineering division won the best poster competition award. Suzana’s industry supported PhD research is entitled : “Characterisation of the acoustic properties of alternative ventilation ducts” and is supervised by its director of studies Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina and co-supervisors Dr Haydar Aygun and Prof Issa Chaer. Many congratulations to Suzana and the supervisory team.