by sueishaq | Mar 7, 2018
Virtual Reality is a powerful tool for investigating a person’s perception, comfort, and feelings towards a space or environment – allowing for empirical data to be collected while products and buildings are still in the design phase. In addition...
by sueishaq | Mar 7, 2018
Wind tunnels are commonly used model the interaction between objects and local air currents during the design phase, and we use them to improve the design of building structures to reduce building stress, remove “dead spots”, and otherwise improve...
by sueishaq | Feb 19, 2018
Where others see a walk-in pickle refrigerator, we see an opportunity to create a unique experimental tool- our Climate Chamber. In 2010, Energy Studies and Buildings Laboratory’s Jason Stenson discovered the old freezer in a barn, and after four years...
by sueishaq | Feb 19, 2018
How do you simulate the effect of daylight on indoor house dust in a controlled laboratory setting? By building homes for the dust, of course. In a recent pilot project, we created “lightboxes” to look at the effect of natural light on bacterial...
