The Vital Signs Project: Resources
The Vital Signs Project: Resources
Abstract
This image shows many of the tools contained in
the Vital Signs Equipment Toolkit
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 to be loaned to schools of architecture and
architectural engineering. The Vital Signs Project seeks proposals from architecture
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 four 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 a student case study competition.
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 are due no later than April 1, 1997. Applicants will be notified by April 18, 1997.
Preparing a Proposal to use the Equipment Toolkits
Detailed information on submitting a proposal to Vital Signs to borrow the Equipment Toolkits is contained in the document Request for Proposals: Vital Signs Equipment Toolkit.
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Request for
Proposals: Vital Signs Equipment Toolkit (140k, approximately 1½ minutes at 14.4
kb/s)
For further information or questions, contact the Vital Signs staff listed under Proposal Information below.
Principal Investigators:
Charles C. Benton, 510-642-0669, crisp@socrates.berkeley.edu
Gail Brager, 510-642-1696, gbrager@socrates.berkeley.edu
Associate Professor of Architecture, 510-643-5571 (fax)
University of California, Berkeley
232 Wurster Hall #1801
Berkeley, CA 94720-1801
Proposal Information:
Bill Burke, Program Coordinator 415-972-5291 bburke@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Alison Kwok, Graduate Research Assistant 415-973-7319 akwok@ced.berkeley.edu
Send two copies of your proposal and address questions regarding contracts to:
Nora Watanabe, noraw@ced.berkeley.edu
510-642-2931 (voice), 510-643-5571 (fax)
University of California, Berkeley
Center for Environmental Design Research
390 Wurster Hall #1839
Berkeley, CA 94720-1839
The Vital Signs Curriculum Materials Project
Comments to author:Vital Signs
All contents copyright (C) 1998. Vital Signs. All rights reserved.
Created: February 24, 1997 Revised: July 13, 2000
URL: http://www-archfp.ced.berkeley.edu/vitalsigns/res/toolkit_rfp.html