Board Of Directors

John J. Loverde

John J. LoVerde is the Director of Architectural Acoustics at Veneklasen Associates, and has more than 34 years of experience in acoustical consulting. John received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 1989. He earned a Masters’ Degree in Acoustics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has designed all building types, including thousands of guestrooms and multifamily residential spaces. He has also developed specialized acoustical risk management programs for owners and developers, which they employ portfolio-wide. John has published over 160 technical papers and presented at numerous conferences around the world. In November 2009, he was appointed to ASA’s Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics, and in 2013, he was recognized in the field as a full Member of the ASA. In 2017, John became a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America for contribution to noise and impact sound control. John has also provided the theory for 9 of the 12 current impact metrics recognized in the ASTM E33 standards.

Wayland Dong

As Director of Applied Research at Veneklasen Associates, Wayland Dong develops calculation and measurement methods and maintains a high level of technical capability among the staff. He is an active member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the international acoustics research community. He has coauthored papers in the Journal of the ASA and given numerous presentations at ASA meetings and international conferences, as well as at other professional meetings and architectural and developer groups. Impact and airborne noise isolation in multifamily structures has been his longstanding research subject. Other subjects include uncertainties in acoustical measurement methods, sampling, and calculation methods for exterior façade analysis, and measurements of flanking noise transmission.

David Lubman

David Lubman is an acoustical consultant/scientist in Orange County, California specializing in architectural acoustics and noise. He is a founder of the new field of archaeoacoustics. His discoveries and insights about the engineering of sound by our ancient ancestors have appeared in Science, Scientific American, New Scientist, National Geographic, Science News, and in recent books. David served as a consultant for shows for the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and he has been interviewed by National Public Radio, Science Friday, BBC London and Scotland, and German National Radio. He has a deep interest in the acoustics of performing arts spaces, both secular and sacred. He served as national chair for architectural acoustics for the ASA and Senior Editor of a book “The Acoustics of Worship Spaces”, published by the American Institute of Physics. He is also an active part of ANSI and other standardization bodies, providing immense support to development of new standards, including the LEED architectural guidelines and sound power measurements for HVAC equipment. David earned a BSEE (1960) from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MSEE from the University of Southern California (1962). He is a Fellow of the ASA and INCE, and served as a Chair of ASA’s Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics.

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