PROGRAMME
DAY 1 MONDAY 31 OCT
9.00 am
Registration and Trade Show opens
Amokura
9.45 am
Conference opening and welcome
Soundings Theatre
10.00 am
Keynote Address sponsored by Batten & Cradle Flooring Systems
Chair: Michael Kingan
Soundings Theatre
Andrew Eagles – CEO, New Zealand Green Building Council
The revolution happening in how we build & maintain our buildings and the implications for acoustics, well being and sustainability
11.00 am
Morning tea and Trade Show
Amokura
11.30 am
Technical Session 1 - sponsored by Batten & Cradle Flooring Systems
Timber buildings Soundings Theatre
Chair: Michael Kingan
11.30 am
Predicting the acoustic performance
of double-leaf cross-laminated
timber panels
Chiaki Fenemore
11.50 am
Resilient inter layers and connectors:
acoustic-structure interaction
in timber buildings
Felix Sheibmair
12.10 pm
Tapping machine and impact ball
laboratory testing of CLT slab
systems with and without floating
floors and ceilings
Thomas Warren
12.30 pm
Quantifying and reducing embodied
carbon in the acoustic design of
mass timber buildings
James Bligh
1.00 pm
Lunch and Trade Show
Amokura
2.00 pm
Technical Session 2 - sponsored by Autex
Room acoustics Soundings Theatre
Chair: Tracy Hilliker
2.00 pm
Reducing the reverberation time of
a lively multipurpose room, using
basic Sabine theory
Stephen Collings
2.20 pm
Acoustically retroreflective room
surface treatment: finite-difference-
time-domain (FDTD) simulation of a
highly retroreflective room
Oliver Hutchison
2.40 pm
Calculation of resonance frequencies
of rooms using a plane wave model
Mark Poletti
3.00 pm
Acoustic features of Te Pae
Christchurch convention centre
George van Hout
3.30 pm
Afternoon tea and Trade Show
Amokura
4.00 pm
The Acoustical Society of New Zealand - Annual General Meeting
Soundings Theatre
5.00 pm
The Australian Acoustical Society - Annual General Meeting
Soundings Theatre
5.30 pm
Welcome Function: Te Marae at Te Papa Tongarewa
Signal processing / Sound reproduction Rangimarie
Chair: Mathew Legg
Evaluation of speech extraction from rolling-shutter video by measuring vibration vertical to shooting surface
Tsubasa Yoshizawa (virtual)
Modeling head-related transfer function spectra by means of
radial basis function approximation
Adam Szwajcowski
Implementing a portable augmented/virtual reality auralisation tool on consumer-grade devices
Tim Beresford
Acoustic signal processing systems
for intelligent beehive monitoring
Iman Ardekani
Road noise and vibration Rangimarie
Chair: Christian Vossart
Innovative approach to quantify and qualify traffic noise pollution
Kévin Cormier
Improving New Zealand’s state highway road surfaces
John Bull
A new methodology for deriving road surface noise corrections for light vehicles in New Zealand
Richard Jackett
Human perception of road traffic vibration in residential dwellings compared to common transport vibration standards
Alvaro Liberona
FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
DAY 2 TUESDAY 1 NOV
8.30 am
Day registrations and Trade Show
Amokura
9.00 am
Day 2 welcome and housekeeping
Amokura
9.15 am
Keynote Address – sponsored by Asona
Chair: Michael Kingan
Soundings Theatre
Stephen Marsland – AviaNZ Research Group, Victoria University of Wellington
AviaNZ: Analysing bioacoustic data
10.00 am
Q & A Session
10.15 am
Morning tea and Trade Show
Amokura
10.45 am
Technical Session 3 - sponsored by T&R Interior Systems
Building acoustics Soundings Theatre
Chair: Mark Poletti
10.45 am
Using Helmholtz resonators to
increase the low frequency insulation
of walls
George Dodd
11.05 am
Accuracy of a prediction method for
sound transmission loss of glazing
Grant Emms
11.25 am
Development of an acoustically rated
electrical flush box using sound
intensity measurement
Mike Latimer
11.45 am
Three methods to improve sound
transmission loss in the coincidence
region
Andrew Hall
12.05 pm
Experimental verification of
calculation methods for louvre
directivity
Daniel Hay
12.30 pm
Lunch and Trade Show
Amokura
1.45 pm
Keynote Address – sponsored by Vibration Solutions (Getzner)
Chair: James Whitlock
Soundings Theatre
Jim Metzner – Pulse of the Planet
Exploring and sharing the soundscape
2.25 pm
Q & A Session
2.45 pm
Afternoon tea
Amokura
3.15 pm
Technical Session 4 - sponsored by Hushtec
Wave propagation / Active noise
control Soundings Theatre
Chair: Mathew Legg
3.15 pm
Acoustic non-destructive testing on a
wooden cylindrical rod using guided
wave shear transducer arrays
Adli Hasan Abu Bakar
3.35 pm
Experimental measurement of the
phase velocity of ultrasonic guided
waves using wave propagation theory
Mathew Legg
3.55 pm
Bayesian active noise control
Iman Ardekani
4.15 pm
6.30 pm
Pre-dinner drinks: Harbourside (formally Shed 22) - sponsored by ASNZ
7.15 pm
Gala Dinner: Harbourside – sponsored by Batten & Cradle Flooring Systems
Vibration and wave propagation
Rangimarie
Chair: Michael Kingan
Influence of capping layer on the ground-borne vibration
induced by surface moving train
Ying Liu
Linear elasticity modelling of pressure effects on a hollow cylinder and it’s breathing mode resonant frequency
Darryl McMahon
Effects of an elastic layer on the vibration properties of a
partially covered circular cylinder
Jie Pan
Tissue mimicking phantom of the acoustical and geometrical
properties of the human eye
Hussain Alsadiq
Broadband noise-insulating structures based on strongly coupled Helmholtz resonators (virtual)
Mariia Krasikova
Construction works Rangimarie
Chair: Tim Beresford
Initial design, development & calibration of MEMS based sound level meter for real-time construction monitoring
Ben Cooper-Woolley
A risk-management approach to controlling construction noise impacts
Dave Davis
Comparison of three impact piling vibration prediction methods against measurement results for two coastal
infrastructure projects
Darren Jurevicius
Noise and vibration criteria and observations for construction works within animal research and breeding facilities
Chenxi Wu
DAY 3 WEDNESDAY 2 NOV
8.30 am
Day registrations and Trade Show
Amokura
9.00 am
Day 3 welcome and housekeeping
Amokura
9.15 am
Keynote Address – sponsored by GIB (Winstone Wallboards)
Chair: Jon Styles
Soundings Theatre
Gina Sweetman
More than numbers and rules; getting that right balance to help planners and decision makers in complex resource management matters
10.00 am
Q & A Session
10.15 am
Morning tea and Trade Show
Amokura
10.45 am
Technical Session 5 - sponsored by Rothoblaas
Environmental acoustics
Soundings Theatre
Chair: Tim Beresford
10.45 am
Drone noise in an RMA context – are
we staying ahead of the curve?
Jeremy Trevathan
11.05 am
Are electric buses too quiet for their
own good?
Siiri Wilkening
11.25 am
Perceptions of acoustics in
contemporary media: Noise in stuff
Alister Stubbe
11.45 am
Questions and answers in
environmental noise assessment at
an undergraduate level
Wyatt Page
12.15 pm
Lunch, Trade Show and Prize Drawn
Amokura
1.15 pm
Technical Session 6 - sponsored by Barton Sound Systems
Music & education Soundings Theatre
Chair: James Whitlock
1.15 pm
Acoustic parameters of typical
wharenui, maraes and Maori musical
instruments
Axel Montes de Oca
1.35 pm
Psychoacoustics, ski-hill graph
pedagogy, and music education
design
Andrea Calilhanna
1.55 pm
Sacred geometry and axial symmetry
in the modern hand bell
Robert Perrin
2.15 pm
A novel acoustic design project for
final year engineering students
Andrew Hall
2.45 pm
Award of Student Prizes and Closing Remarks
Soundings Theatre
3.15 pm
Conference end
Underwater noise Rangimarie
Chair: Jon Styles
A study of the temporal distribution of fish choruses recorded along the north-west continental shelf of Western Australia
Lauren Amy Hawkins
Underwater noise measurements of impact driving of 200 mm square hollow section piles
Lachlan Newitt
Using a bubble curtain to significantly reduce underwater noise emissions from piling
Ben Lawrence
Underwater noise measurements of a cutter suction dredge
in shallow water
Nick Henrys
Noise exposure / Noise perception Rangimarie
Chair: Wyatt Page
The efficacy of audible warning alarms in underground mines
Francis Prendergast
The assessment of occupational noise exposure and hearing damage risk from high energy impulsive sources
Vasos Alexandrou
Application of the objective impulse assessment method of ISO1996-3:2022 to real life
Colin Tickell
Advanced analysis of rail noise measurement data for rail noise
model calibration
Sean Brennan