Bernard Berry
Director
Berry Environmental Ltd
Bernard was born in
Manchester, and educated at St Bede’s College and Manchester University [BSc
Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Postgraduate studies and an MSc
[Human Factors in Engineering] followed at the Institute of Sound and
Vibration Research ISVR, University of Southampton. www.isvr.soton.ac.uk
He
then won a NATO Science Fellowship and spent a year as a guest worker at
the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, with Dr George Thiessen
investigating the effects of impulse noise on sleep, using EEG techniques.
In 1970
he joined the National Physical Laboratory – the UK national standards
laboratory, www.npl.co.uk , to work with the
late Professor Douglas Robinson, and dedicated 30 years there to an extensive
portfolio of activities in research, standardisation, consultancy
and policy advice in the field of environmental noise
and its effects on people. This ranged for example, from compiling the first
“Leq Guide” for the Government’s Noise Advisory Council in the 70s,
through directing a long-term consultancy project with the Royal Air Force
through the 80s and early 90s, to more recent joint EC-funded team
projects on the effects of noise on health . He has been a consultant to
industry, UK Government, the EU, and other national Governments, including USA,
Brazil, Japan, Italy and Turkey.
On July
1st 2001 he left NPL to form a new company - Berry Environmental Ltd
– BEL. Link to Current projects
He has published
nearly 100 papers, reports and book chapters, given more than 100 presentations
at conferences, and also a number of radio and TV interviews. See details of
publications and presentations to date on the NPL Acoustics website www.npl.co.uk/npl/acoustics/publications
. More recent publications will be on the BEL website - www.bel-acoustics.co.uk
He is Chairman of the
British Standards Institution [BSI] Technical Committee on “Residential and
Industrial Noise” and is a member of the main BSI Acoustics Committee
. www.bsi.org.uk
He is also a member of the
ISO Working Group 45 on the revision of ISO 1996, and of WG43
– revision of ISO 3891. He is on the National Noise Committee of the NSCA.
www.nsac.org.uk
He
represented the UK on the European Union’s Future Noise Policy Working Group
2, on Noise Dose/effects, http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/noise/home.htm
and is a member of Team 9 “Regulations and Standards” of the World
Health Organisation’s International Commission on the Biological Effects of
Noise [ICBEN]. http://www.xs4all.nl/~rigolett/ICBEN-team9
He
assisted the WHO Task Group in the production of the Year 2000 edition of
the WHO “Guidelines on Community Noise”. www.who.int
He
was made a Fellow of the UK Institute of Acoustics in 1994, and was President of
the Institute from 1996-1998. He is Institute Vice-President
for International Relations. www.ioa.org.uk
He
is a member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Noise and
Health, and of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the ISVR at the University
of Southampton.
He
is an Executive Board Director of the International Institute of Noise Control
Engineering [I/INCE], and acts as European Editor of the I-INCE journal Noise
News International. He is Convenor [Chairman] of I-INCE Technical Study Group 2
on “Noise Labels for Consumer and Industrial Products”, and a member of I-INCE
TSG 5 on “Noise as a Global Policy Issue”. See www.i-ince.org
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