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Vital
Signs 1997 ACSA Vital Signs Training Session San Francisco, CA
August 5-10, 1997
 1996 Vital Signs Training Session Participants at the San Francisco Main
Library
The Vital Signs Curriculum Materials Project is pleased to
announce its 1997 Summer Training Session, sponsored by The Energy Foundation, Pacific Gas
and Electric and ACSA. This event is intended primarily for educators from architectural
programs accredited by ACSA and architectural engineering programs accredited by the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). The 1997 Training Session will
build upon the activities that the project has coordinated during the past four years. In
the 1995 Training Session, we introduced the Vital Signs materials. In 1996, the theme
focused on teaching experiences using the materials. The theme of this year's Session is
the connection between building performance and design intent. Educators will learn how to
guide students in conducting building investigations that identify design intent, measure
building performance, and draw the connections between the two.
As described below, this year's training is divided into two
sessions. First will be a one day training focused on equipment use. This will be followed
by a multi-day training that addresses the process of field investigation. A major focus
of this multi-day training will be how faculty can assist students in making the
connection between design intent and building performance. You may apply for either or
both parts of the session.
- A one day Equipment Workshop has been added to the Summer
Training Session on August 5, to kickoff the beginning of the Vital Signs toolkit loan
program. Participants will gain hands-on experience and instruction in the use of a number
of pieces of equipment contained in the Vital Signs toolkits.
- The main program of the Training Session will take place from
August 6 through 10. The Training Session will parallel the experience of students
undertaking building investigations, with sessions designed to take participants through
the case study process. Activities will include a local building visit to develop inquiry
questions, group discussions to refine questions and develop hypotheses, a test of
possible investigative methods during a second building visit, as well as small-group
discussions about integrating the Vital Signs field study approach into a variety of
course formats. We will also discuss potential avenues for sharing resultant student case
studies. Throughout all activities we will emphasize the connection between building
performance evaluation and design decision-making.
 Training Session Highlights
August 6-10, 1997
Attendees will be actively engaged in discussions and
exercises that take them through the steps of developing a building case study. Activities
will parallel the teaching process, providing opportunities to discuss how the case study
approach would work in a variety of course types, be they lecture, seminar or design
studio. We plan to visit a local building in San Francisco in small groups. These small
"teams" will assemble a list of inquiry questions about the building. Through
discussion, these questions will be developed into testable hypotheses. Team members will
identify measurement techniques and instruments that could be used to test the hypotheses.
These discussions will be followed by a second visit to the building where participants
can try out some of these techniques for themselves, using simple hand-held instruments.
Possible topics include daylighting, electric lighting, HVAC performance, air movement,
thermal comfort, window glazing performance and indoor air quality. There will also be
opportunities to discuss, in a more general nature, how the Vital Signs approach can be
adopted into the different courses that Training Session participants have planned for the
upcoming academic year.
Toolkit equipment contains miniature datalogger, an anemometer,
infrared sensor, smoke gun, illunimance and luminance meters, ozone and VOC meters and
much more!
Equipment Day Highlights
August 5, 1997
Participants will learn the basics of data acquisition, and
receive hands-on experience with many of the instruments contained in the toolkit, such as
illuminance meters, infrared surface thermometers, hot-wire anemometers, CO2 monitors,
data acquisition systems and mini-dataloggers. With such equipment and your guidance,
students will be able to undertake studies of building energy performance, lighting
conditions, thermal comfort, air movement, indoor air quality and a range of other topics.
Tentative Training Session Schedule
Cost
Vital Signs provides lodging, materials, sumptuous meals and
invigorating discussions at no cost to Training Session participants. Housing will be at
Clark Kerr Campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Rooms are double occupancy.
Your expenses while in the Bay Area will be virtually nil. Those only attending the
Equipment Workshop on August 5 (and not the rest of the training), are responsible for
their own accommodations (lunch is provided).
Participants must cover the cost of travel to and from the Bay Area. We also ask that
participants provide their enthusiastic participation throughout the entire training
session. Because the individual sessions build cumulatively, missing part of the training
will severely compromise your experience of the event.
Additional Information
If you are interested in attending the 1997 Summer Training
Session, please complete the application form that follows and return it to Gail Brager by
May 1, 1997. Applicants will be notified of selections by May 9.
Gail Brager
1997 Vital Signs Summer Training Session
390 Wurster Hall, #1839
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1839
tel: 510-642-1696
fax: 510-643-5571
E-mail: gbrager@socrates.berkeley.edu
This workshop is organized by:
The Vital Signs Staff at UC Berkeley:
Gail S. Brager, Project Co-Investigator
Cris C. Benton, Project Co-Investigator
Bill Burke, Project Coordinator
Alison Kwok, Graduate Student Researcher
Allan Daly, Graduate Student Research
and:
John McRae, President ACSA, Mississippi State University
Jane Greenwood, Mississippi State University
Walter Grondzik, Florida A&M University
Mike Utzinger, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
1997 ACSA-VITAL SIGNS SUMMER TRAINING SESSION APPLICATION
August 5-10, 1997
Berkeley/San Francisco, California
Space is limited. Please return completed application no later than May 1 to:
Gail Brager
1997 Vital Signs Summer Training Session
390 Wurster Hall, #1839
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1839.
Tel: 510-642-1696; fax: 510-643-5571.
If you choose to fax your application, please send a hard copy by mail. Confirmation
information will be sent to all participants by May 9, 1997.
Check one or both:
I would like to attend the Equipment Workshop on Tuesday, August 5, 1997. _____
I would like to attend the Summer Training Session, Wed.-Sun., August 6-10, 1997. _____
Name: _____________________________________________________
Institution: __________________________________________________
Address: ___________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
City: ___________________ State: _________________ Zip: _________
Office Tel: _________________ Home Tel: ________________________
Fax: ___________________________ E-mail: _____________________
SELECTION CRITERIA
In evaluating applications for acceptance to this event, we will look at your proposal,
evaluating your purpose for attending this year's Training Session, potential for
contributing to the event dynamics and exchange of ideas, and likelihood of applying the
Vital Signs material during the 1997-98 academic year. We will also apply selection
criteria as a group, hoping to achieve a balance of participants who are both experienced
with and new to the Vital Signs project and previous Training Sessions, junior and senior
faculty, ECS and design faculty, and geographic diversity.
YOUR SUMMARY PROPOSAL
Please attach a single-page maximum summary explaining your interest in
attending the ACSA/Vital Signs Summer Training Session and/or the Equipment Workshop, what
you hope to get out of it and contribute to it, and how you might integrate the Vital
Signs approach and materials within your curriculum. In addition to this single page,
please submit a list of course titles that you teach, indicating which: 1) are
undergraduate/graduate, 2) are lecture, seminar, or studio, 3) have used field evaluation
in the past, and 4) classes you will be teaching during the 1997-98 academic year. |
