After a construction period of about two years, since the beginning of this month, the Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics (IHTA) has moved in the newly constructed building Cube3, located at Kopernikusstr. 18 in Aachen. The building not only includes an entire floor of new offices and meeting rooms for IHTA, but also a floor that now reunites the institute’s mechnical and eletrical workshops and all of our laboratories.
IHTA’s new laboratory environment includes the following facilities:
- Hemi anechoic chamber (S= ~95m², V =~520 m³ excl. wedges): Accuracy class 1 according to DIN EN ISO 3745, lower cut off frequency 100 Hz, enabling measurements up to frequencies of 20 kHz.
- Anechoic chamber (S=~50 m², V=320 m³ excl. wedges) Class 1 according to DIN EN ISO 3745; allows measurements in a frequency range from 125 Hz up to 20 kHz
- Reverberation chamber (S= ~65m², V=~310 m³): Highly reflective surfaces and a diffuse sound field provide measurement conditions for ISO354 measurements
- VR laboratory (S= ~32m², V=~85m³): Acoustic Virtual Reality Lab (ITU R BS.1116 listening room) for demonstrations and audiovisual experiments
- Three listening booths for perception studies, and several smaller test setups (impedance tubes, small-scale reverberation chamber and sound transmission test bench)
Thanks to everyone involved in the planning, construction and the move into the new building. We are very grateful and proud that we are now one of the best-equipped acoustics institutes!
The building is shared with the Institute of Electromagnetic Theory (Prof. Jungemann) and the Institute of Communication Systems (Prof. Jax), who will work on three other floors of the building.
At the moment, we’re still busy unpacking boxes and preparing the laboratories for experiments and measurements. We’re hoping to have most of the laboratory setups running in the first part of 2027. For the current winter term, most teaching activities are still taking place at IHTA’s former building, at Kopernikusstr. 5.
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