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This is a part of the AIA Housing Knowledge Community research webinar series. See the complete series archive at http://www.aia.org/housing. You may have already registered under its working title was "Behavioral and Technical Housing Research."
The subject of the webinar is building science and research on buildings, and how building science has been accepted within the architecture community. The webinar will draw heavily on writings and examples from throughout the 20th century, with particular emphasis on research before and after World War II. It will track how the architecture literature of the time described the integration of science and research into architecture. It will touch on the variety of research, including behavioral, health, history, and technology.
The principal example will be the science and research that led to prescriptive measures of moisture control such as vapor barriers and attic ventilation. The webinar will trace how these measures were introduced (by an architect!), codified, applied, challenged, and changed over time. The example will be used to illustrate how architects participate in the research process, and how they apply the products of research.
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Learning Objectives
- Review what building science is, viewed from within building science and from within architecture.
- Discuss how building research is conducted, and how it is applied.
- Review how building science leads to an ordered body of knowledge, and to prescriptive measures.
- Discuss how architects participate in the research process, and apply the products of research.
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Attendees will earn 1.5 CEHs. At the end of the webinar, a link to a survey will be provided. All attendees at each site submit one form: 1) page one: webinar survey and 2) page two: CES report form. The survey must be completed within 24 hours of the webinar. AIA members and IDP record holders will have their credit recorded within 48 hours of the webinar. All attendees will be prompted to download a certificate of completion at the end of the survey.
Questions
Please send your questions, comments and feedback to: knowledgecommunities@aia.org.
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Speaker
William Rose
Senior Research Architect
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
William Rose is a Senior Research Architect at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The focus of his research is on heat, air and moisture in buildings and building envelopes. Topics include moisture problems in white roofs, combustion product concentrations resulting from use of unvented heaters, and addition of thermal insulation to existing buildings. His current research is on indoor air quality outcomes in weatherized houses with different ventilation approaches. He is the author of Water in Buildings (Wiley, 2005). From 1998 to 2011 he was the ASHRAE Handbook Chair for Handbook chapters on building envelopes. In 2003 He received the ASHRAE Technical Achievement Award, the first architect to do so. In addition to his university work, he consults to historic buildings and museums to address performance and durability concerns. Recent projects include the Guggenheim Museum (NYC), brick shrines at Angkor (Cambodia) and the AIA Headquarters (DC).