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 TRAINING SESSION HIGHLIGHTS - July 7-12, 1998

On July 8, participants will learn the basics of data acquisition, and receive hands-on experience with various instruments contained in a Vital Signs Toolkit, such as illuminance meters, infrared surface thermometers, hot-wire anemometer, CO2 monitor, data acquisition systems and small dataloggers. From July 9-11, we plan to discuss, visit and evaluate the Real Goods Solar Living Center, located in Northern California. Participants will first hear presentations from members of the building's design team.


At Right: Professor Margot McDonald, from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo,   and Professor Michael Garrison, from the University of Texas at Austin, during a site visit to the San Francisco New Main Library during the 1997 Vital Signs Training Session.		 garrison.jpg (83694 bytes)
We then plan to visit the building where we will work in teams. Each team will be led by an educator experienced in building evaluations. Teams will  assemble a list of inquiry questions, develop these questions into testable "hunches" or "hypotheses", discuss appropriate measurement techniques to test a "hunch", and conduct mini-investigations in a range of topics, (including indoor air quality, lighting, HVAC, thermal comfort, balancing energy flows into and out of the building, and consideration of site elements in environmentally responsive design). There will also be opportunities to discuss and share information with colleagues, and to consider how the field investigation approach can be adopted into classes that participants have planned for the upcoming academic year.
 
Tentative Training Session Schedule
Tuesday, July 7 Wednesday, July 8 Thursday/Friday
July 9 & 10		 Saturday, July 11
Clark Kerr Campus/
UC Berkeley		 Pacific Energy Center Energy Center/
Real Goods		 Clark Kerr Campus/
UC Berkeley
9-12 Handheld Instrumentation 9-5 Classroom workshops and site visit 9-12 Data Analysis
3:00 Room check-in 1-5 Advanced measurement techniques 1-2:30 Conclusions
4:00 Welcome/
orientation
6:00 Dinner 7:00 Dinner 7:00 Dinner Saturday night accommodations and Sunday breakfast are included.
8:00 Kick-off Activity

Confirmed team leaders include:

Walter Grondzik, Florida A&M University/Climate Control Systems
Alison Kwok, Cornell University/Thermal Comfort
Tang Lee, University of Calgary/Indoor Air Quality
Marietta Millett, University of Washington/Lighting Quality
Mike Utzinger, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee/Balancing Energy Flows
Into And Out Of A Building

Comments to:
vitalsigns@
ced.berkeley.edu

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Created: 03/17/98

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