The Belgian Acoustical Society (ABAV) was founded in 1966, as a national society without financial profit goal. The society gathers all interested persons from universities, research laboratories, consulting offices, industries, governmental organisations, ... with activities in the field of acoustics in its broadest sense: physical acoustics, industrial noise control, building acoustics, environmental protection, electro-acoustics, noise protection, ...
The society has at the moment approximately 125 members (effective, associate, student and honorary) and 40 supporting members.
The ABAV Society has the following goals: