Building with wood International Acoustics Experts
Delphine Bard – Université de LundDelphine Bard is a researcher and associate professor at Engineering Acoustics, Lund University in Sweden. She is responsible for the acoustic research group in Lund, which she has been building up over the past 8-10 years, with strong focus on timber structures and modelling with regard to Finite Element Method (FEM). The group has a full setup of laboratories for building acoustic research and for measurements, available for acoustic testing and development for industrial applications / products. Apart from that, she is teaching acoustics to students and running and / or participating in a number of projects both financed through the industry, national funding institutions and European funding. Delphine is also working part time within the global material company group, Saint-Gobain as an expert within acoustics providing knowledge and support mainly for the Nordic market.
Heinz Ferk, Université de Graz
Heinz Ferk studied civil engineering at Graz University of Technology, Austria and focused on building physics and construction in the following years. 1995 he started his own engineering office and besides other projects and research he accompanied from the very beginning the development of wood based building in building acoustics, physics and construction in Austria. So he has more than 20 years of acoustic and building physics related experience of wood based building in praxis and research. Since 1999 he is head of the building physics laboratory at Graz University of Technology, where he established 2004 an European notified, accredited testing Laboratory. He is lecturer for building physics and building pathology and is engaged with his expert team in building science and building physics research, testing and simulation in building acoustics, room acoustics, hygrothermal and mechanical physics.
Catherine Guigou-Carter CSTB Catherine Guigou-Carter obtained an engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1989 (specialized in Acoustics and Vibration) at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France; in 1992 she obtained a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA.
She joined in 1997 as a R&D engineer the Scientific and Technical Center for Building (CSTB), a public organization for innovation in building. She has since been working in the Building Acoustics and Vibration Group on prediction models development for building elements in order to improve product performances with respect to acoustics. She is member of French, European and ISO standardization groups.
She joined in 1997 as a R&D engineer the Scientific and Technical Center for Building (CSTB), a public organization for innovation in building. She has since been working in the Building Acoustics and Vibration Group on prediction models development for building elements in order to improve product performances with respect to acoustics. She is member of French, European and ISO standardization groups.
Klas Hagberg – WSP Sweden AB / WSP Environmental Klas Hagberg is the project coordinator of Silent Timber Build and he has more than 25 years of experience within building acoustics. Klas has carried out research and development regarding acoustics and vibration within wooden structures since the middle of 1990ies, which was the time when the fire regulation were revised and opened up for timber framed multi storey buildings. Klas joined in at an early stage in the development of the acoustic building regulations in order to fit them to the new timber structures for residential multifamily buildings. He has since then participated in the development of the timber framed buildings in various projects, both nationally and internationally.
Jean-Luc Kouyoumji – FCBA Jean-Luc Kouyoumji is a research engineer since 1997 at the Technological Institute FCBA. He has a Ph. D. in « Civil engineering and Building Sciences” of Savoie University. He was project manager or coordinator for over 30 R&D projects (both private and public) and has written over 25 papers for international congresses and scientific reviews on acoustics and building energy. His areas of expertise are: (1) Improvement and modeling of acoustic performances of wooden buildings and flanking transmissions; (2) Biosourced materials for energy-efficient buildings; (3) Technology transfer of and innovations in construction; (4) International cooperation between researchers, engineers, technical centers and construction companies. He has been Chairman of 12 sessions on acoustics lightweight constructions for the Internoise and ICA Acoustics Congresses. He has been vice-chair of the EU-COST Action FP0702 and TAIEX expert for MED Mediterranean countries. Co-Author of the « Cross Laminated Timber Handbook” for Canada and reviewer of the « Technical Guide for the Design and Construction of high-rise Wood Buildings in Canada” and for the CLT Handbook USA.
Hansueli Schmid – Lignum Hansueli is the leader of the work package “European Timber Sound Insulation Atlas”. He works as a technical project manager at the national organization Lignum – swiss wood economy. He works in the fields of BIM-database, durability, sustainability and sound insulation. He provides consulting, expert assessment and development of technical documentation. With the age of 20 Hansueli completed the 4-year apprenticeship as interior carpenter in his village. After he studied for over four years engineer in wood technology at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Biel and has written his thesis during his Internship at Precious woods in Costa Rica (FSC certificated forestry and sawmill). He worked then as international project manager for Vitra in Basel (office furniture projects), later as product and sales manager for TAVAPAN (composite and acoustic panels in wood) and for Knauf (Drywall systems for wood).
Moritz Späh – IBP Fraunhofer Moritz Späh studied Building Physics in the beginning of the 1990s and focussed on acoustics since then. He has experience in room acoustics, building acoustics and structure borne noise and has worked for a car supplying company on the noise of hvac units. Since 2008 he is working at Fraunhofer IBP in Stuttgart in building acoustics with special interest in lightweight and wooden constructions. He was engaged in the international project „AcuWood« and is contributing to „Silent Timber Build« . Since the end of 2015, he is the group leader of the room acoustics group at the IBP.