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Under
Task 1, the University of Nevada Las Vegas developed an integrated building
database that contains data from typical commercial and
institutional buildings. The data was collected using the
Integrated Building Protocol (IBP). IBP is a protocol for
measuring and verifying integrated building performance parameters
and the corresponding assessment of occupant perceptions of indoor
building environments in the same set of buildings. IBP
establishes a baseline data that is used to establish future
guidance for building technology and energy policy. Task 1
limited itself to a survey of one vertical construction segment,
i.e., ten office buildings located in five cities in the United
States. Task 13 will extend the normative database to educational
construction. After the office and mercantile segments, the
educational sector exhibits the third largest specific energy
consumption, i.e., Btu per square foot and year. Furthermore, a
1996 survey of the General Accounting Office of state of
educational facilities in the U.S., reported that about 58 percent
of schools nationwide have at least one unsatisfactory
environmental condition (lighting, heating, ventilating or indoor
air quality)
The focus of
this monitoring is to obtain data from typical (normative)
educational facilities. Among the tasks completed in
Task 1 were the development of an integrated monitoring plan for a series
of IEQ parameters and the development a computer-based occupant
perception questionnaire. A revision of that monitoring plan and
questionnaire will be utilized in this study. Important
considerations in developing the integrated plan were measurements
of temperature, relative humidity, draft, volatile organic
compounds, carbon dioxide, airborne and surface-associated mold,
sound and lighting. Although parameters for building selection
were developed in the previous study, this project will require
the development of criteria for selection of educational
facilities. Important considerations will be building age,
history of water intrusion or repair and repair or modification to
the HVAC system. |
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This project
will be executed by the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV).
The Principal Investigator is Linda Stetzenbach, Ph.D.
This project is
scheduled to start July 1, 2005 and be completed within 12
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