National Building Museum
Washington, DC
Team 1 HOBO baloon
Vital Signs Tool Day at the National Building Museum happened on April 22 (Earth Day). It was an all-day affair during which participants became familiar with the NBM and gained hands-on experience measuring aspects of its performance, e.g. daylighting, thermal stratification, visual comfort, air movement. NBM Executive Vice-President Martin Moeller acted as genial host for this Vital Signs program, revealing the NBM as a fascinating building and set participants loose to enjoy analyzing all its quirks, nooks, crannies, and just-plain-oddities.
Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE) members, university students, professional architects and engineers, and the general public participated.
Co-Sponsored by: Agents of Change project, National Building Museum, and Society of Building Science Educators
Event Coordination
Organized by: Bruce Haglund University of Idaho, Alison Kwok University of Oregon, Walter Grondzik Florida A&M University
Schedule
April 22, 2001
10:00A Introduction to the Museum
11:30A Vital Signs Exercises with Equipment
noon Hypothesis Forming Lunch
(no-host @ NBM Cafe)
1:00P Team Investigations and Explorations
3:30P Team Presentations
4:30P Adjourn
5:00P Museum Closes
Participants
PARTICIPATING TEAMS
Investigation teams were pre-selected by the Tool Day organizers. Each team formed a hypothesis and spent the afternoon trying to prove or disprove it.
Team 1
co-leaders:
Harvey Bryan, Arizona State University
Nick Rajkovich, University of Oregon
members:
Erv Bales, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Muscoe Martin, Susan Maxman Partners
George Bowman, Arup Group
Team 2
co-leaders:
Walter Grondzik, Florida A&M University
Josh Glavin, University of Oregon
members:
Chungyoon Chun, Yokohama National University
Kathryn Prigmore, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott
Steven Sandifer, UCLA
Team 3
co-leaders:
Bruce Haglund, University of Idaho
Christina Bollo, University of Oregon
members:
Karen Butler, US EPA
Sandra Stannard, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Hofu Wu, Cal Poly Pomona
Team 4
co-leaders:
Chris Luebkeman, Arup Group
Yelena Chenchik, University of Idaho
members:
Jennifer Davis, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott
Greg Hartman, University of Oregon
Jonathan Reich, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Michael Holmes, Arup Group
Team 5
co-leader:
Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez, Ball State University
members:
Larry Degelman, Texas A&M University
Peter Feibelman, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott
Sayyed Mohammed Autif, Arizona State University
Mudit Saxena, Arizona State University
Roving Investigators
Tisha Egashira, University of Idaho
Alison Kwok, University of Oregon
Dru Crawley, US DOE
NBM Staff
Martin Moeller, Executive Vice President
Patrick Neill, Director of Special Events
Ed Worthy, Vice President for Education
Barry Edmunds, Weekend Assistant Museum Services Manager