REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
1998-99 ACADEMIC YEAR

Eight equipment toolkits are available to ACSA member schools of architecture and ABET member schools of architectural engineering for a quarter, semester or year-long period. Through this loan program, faculty and students will be able to gain experience with a range of measurement devices as they conduct field investigations of existing buildings.

You will find an illustrated list of tools that make up a toolkit by reading this PDF file.

You will find a Request For Proposals to borrow one of the toolkits on this and the subsequent linked pages. You may also view, print and save the RFP as a PDF file.

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ABSTRACT

To encourage student investigation and assist in the development of building case studies, the National Science Foundation and The Energy Foundation have funded eight (8) equipment tool kits for loan to schools of architecture and architectural engineering. The Vital Signs Project seeks proposals from architecture and architecture engineering school faculty interested in gaining experience with the equipment in the tool kits, and in overseeing the activities of their students as they use the equipment to conduct field investigations of existing buildings.

The loan program is offered in the context of the Vital Signs Curriculum Materials Project, an architectural education effort encouraging the field investigation of physical building performance.

During the past five years the project has undertaken a variety of activities. These include coordinating the development of modular Resource Packages addressing key building performance topics, e.g. indoor air quality and health, whole building energy use, HVAC components and systems, and glazing performance; summer faculty training sessions incentive grants to educators to support the production of building case studies by students in their classes; and two student case study competitions.

Equipment tool kits may be borrowed by participating architecture schools for a quarter, semester, or year long period. This will allow faculty and students to gain firsthand experience with the use of measurement equipment in studies of building performance using the Vital Signs approach of field investigation. Proposals must be received no later than April 3, 1998. Applicants will be notified via e-mail by April 17, 1998 with written confirmation to follow.

Vital Signs Project Directors:
Charles C. Benton, 510-642-0669, crisp@socrates.berkeley.edu
Gail Brager, 510-642-1696, gbrager@socrates.berkeley.edu
University of California, Berkeley
390 Wurster Hall 
Berkeley, CA 94720

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section 1
General Information: Background, Objectives, Eligibility, Calendar

Section 2
Scope of Work: Tasks

Section 3
Proposals: Preparation, Submission Requirements, Selection Criteria

Section 4
Contract Information and Indemnification, and Insurance Requirements

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Comments to author: 
crisp@socrates
.berkeley.edu

All contents copyright (C) 1998. Vital Signs Project. All rights reserved.

Created: 01/22/98

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