Resource Packages

Vital Signs and architecture faculty at schools across the country have developed these packages to assist instructors and students in framing building investigations. They contain detailed background information as well as field investigation protocols at three skill levels. This page provides quick descriptions of the packages.

Paper copies of each Resource Package were distributed faculty members at architecture schools in North America in May 1996. To learn who received a copy at your school contact Cris Benton. If you want an electronic copy of a package, they are available to be downloaded here.

Lending Library of
Equipment Toolkits

Since the Fall of 1997, Vital Signs has made eight loaner sets of building investigation tools available to schools of architecture and architectural engineering. The toolkits support the field study protocols contained in the Resource Packages as well as many other field investigation methods. These loans allow faculty and students to gain first-hand experience with the measurement devices and their applications. This page describes the tools contained in the toolkit.

For information on borrowing the toolkit, see the Request for Proposals: Vital Signs Equipment Toolkits page.

Request for Proposals: Vital Signs Equipment Toolkit

Eight equipment toolkits are available for loan to schools of architecture for a quarter, semester or year-long period.The Request For Proposals for loans during the 2000-2001 academic year will be available soon. 

Further Online Vital
Signs Resources

Access our online resources from this page. Click here to find an ever-growing list of files, databases, and software related to Vital Signs Resource Packages, information on Building Work-Ups, and archival threads of Vital Signs-related discussions. Almost everything that used to be on the FTP site is also here.

Links to Related Web Sites

Here are some links to web sites relevant to the Vital Signs Project as well as quick descriptions of each.