News and Features

We were delighted to hear that the National Youth Choir of Great Britain made good use of the new music school at Greshams, where they were resident for their Spring 2018 course.  Several AJA staff turned up for their final concert in the rather less acoustically distinguished St Andrew’s Hall in Norwich, with occasional accompaniment…

Fletton Quays is part of a £120 million development in the heart of Peterborough.  This ambitious council-backed venture was launched in 2017 as the initial project for the Peterborough Investment Partnership.  The goal is to regenerate an area adjacent to the River Nene, creating an attractive space featuring apartments and restaurants, a hotel, a dedicated…

We are sometimes asked to provide courses for companies which do not employ qualified acousticians.   Adrian James explains why we don’t do this.

Pipers Corner School hosted a gala performance of its inaugural production ‘We Will Rock You’ to celebrate the opening of the new theatre.  The gala on Saturday 26 November ended a hugely successful four-night run of the production.  Michael Holden and Ian Rees dusted off their black tie garb to attend the event.

AJA were delighted to win the 2016 ANC Award in the Architectural Acoustics: Education category for Boardman House.  This is our second ANC Award, having previously won the award for Architectural Acoustics at the first ANC Awards in 2013 for the UEL Stratford Library.  Project acoustician Ian Rees was presented with the award by physicist and…

AJA were commended in the Architectural Acoustics: Education category at the ANC Awards for our work on the UEA Bob Champion Building at the Norwich and Norfolk University Hospital.  Project acoustician Andy Oldridge was presented with the commendation by physicist and TV presenter Helen Czerski and Ecophon’s Shane Cryer at the ANC Conference in Birmingham in June.

The UEA Crome Court Student Residences building has won the National Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Award for Design Through Innovation.

We are pleased to announce that Andy Oldridge has been accepted for registration as a Chartered Engineer by the Engineering Council, having recently completed the rigorous reporting and interview process. As well as now being able to add ‘CEng’ to an increasingly baffling array of letters after his name, registration is also recognition of his competence and expertise in…

We worked on the acoustic design of the new George Green library at the University of Nottingham for three years, and are pleased to announce that the building is now well established, and continues to win a number of awards.

We are pleased to announce that Rosanna Fish has won the second Adrian James Acoustics Research Seminar Paper Prize.  The annual cash prize is awarded to students studying the prestigious Tonmeister programme at the University of Surrey.