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Federal Laboratory Profiles
Federal Laboratory Profiles
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON THE ACID DEPOSITION RESEARCH PROGRAM Engineering Experiment Station Engineering Research Building 1500 Johnson Drive Madison, WI 53706 608/263-1601 CONTACT: Clayton Smith, Assistant Dean MISSION AND FOCUS OF RESEARCH: Related work focuses on structures design; extensive work with materials and their strength, including steel, concrete, wood, and composites; and designing solar systems for heating and cooling. Facilities include computers for modeling and facilities for structures and materials testing.
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Gene Tucker, Chief, Indoor Air Branch, Combustion and Indoor Air Division, Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory MISSION AND FOCUS OF RESEARCH: The three laboratories at Research Triangle Park work together on the EPA's Indoor Air Quality Program. Major research areas include development of methods to measure indoor air quality; testing of emissions from indoor sources such as building materials, furnishings, and combustion devices; development and testing of indoor air pollutant control methods, especially for radon; research on the health effects of indoor air pollutant mixtures; and monitoring of indoor air quality in buildings to estimate indoor air pollutant exposures.
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The lab continuously monitors test houses and conducts energy analysis using a variety of materials and methods of construction, including an international housing village to test the efficiency of building methods of other countries. Brookhaven also manages a Heat Pump Laboratory, which can be used for transient or steady-state tests of liquid-source heat pumps or of individual heat pump components, and a Combustion Equipment Technological Laboratory to measure performance and thermal efficiency of oil- and gas-fired furnaces and boilers.
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Computer-integrated construction is an expanding field. Facilities include a passive solar test house, solar calorimeters, six single-room environmental test houses, and solar collectors.
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The organic materials laboratory studies paints, coatings, and roofing materials, with an emphasis on image analysis to predict the service life of building materials. The inorganic materials laboratory does advanced work in studying the chemical and physical changes that occur when cement reacts with water, using mathematical models and aiming at predictive modeling of the lifetime of concrete.
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Building-related research includes work on physical security; nondestructive testing; development of alternative coatings to protect wood and metal from corrosive environments; paint, roofing, and pavement materials research; ventilation and cooling of buildings; passive solar structures; building thermal diagnostics; energy control systems; and design criteria for buildings under all types of loadings. The facilities include an advanced energy utilization test bed; an applied mechanics laboratory with simulated shock and vibration facilities, as well as a wind tunnel; an electric power laboratory; an optical metrology laboratory to conduct optical mechanics studies of stress, strain, and deflection; a soil mechanics laboratory for evaluation of soil mechanics, foundations and pavements; a materials laboratory to investigate organic coatings, plastics, metals, alloys, concrete, composite materials, and chemical problems related to environmental protection; and a pavement-loading facility that can apply loads up to 100,000 pounds to pavement in order to determine load-carrying capacities.
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P Mann, Information Management Office Gilbert Williamson, Energy Systems Division Robert Quattrone, Engineering and Materials Division Ravinder Jain, Environmental Division Edward Lotz, acility Systems Division MISSION AND FOCUS OF RESEARCH: CERL conducts research to support the Armies military construction mission.
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Alexandria, VA 22332 703/325-0032 CONTACT: Harry Zimmerman, Assistant Commander for Engineering and Design MISSION AND FOCUS OF RESEARCH: The division develops and reviews architectural and engineering policies, criteria, and practices for the economical design and construction of shore facilities and fixed ocean structures to satisfy the functional/operational requirements in the best manner possible. The division also provides standard drawings and specifications, and directs and reviews all engineering and design efforts.
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Box 631 Vicksburg, MS 39180 601/634-3264 CONTACT: Bryant Mather, Chief, Structures Lab, CEWES-SV-Z MISSION AND FOCUS OF RESEARCH: Major activities of the Structures Laboratory include: research and development concerned with the behavior of concrete materials, elements, and structures; repair of concrete structures under in-use conditions; the resistance of such structures to dynamic forces such as earthquakes; effects of nuclear and conventional weapons detonated aboveground and underwater; design of protective structures and determination of their vulnerability; use of explosive technology for countermobility and mine field clearing; behavior of earth and rock subjected to intense transient loading; development of constitutive property definitions; and mathematical models to simulate behavior of geological materials. DISTINCTIVE ATTRIBUTES: Dynamic force testing.
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Schaffer, Assistant Director, Wood Products Research MISSION AND FOCUS OF RESEARCH: The Laboratory works to ensure the most efficient use of wood and wood resources. With regard to the use of wood products in buildings, research emphasizes using materials more effectively, improving structural integrity, increasing energy efficiency and developing more fire-safe products and structures.
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PUBLICATIONS: Technical journals, books, and in-house reports. OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY, BUILDINGS RESEARCH PROGRAM Oak Ridge National Laboratory Building 4500N, MS-188 Oak Ridge, TN 37831 615/574-5204 CONTACT: Roger Carlsmith, Director of Conservation and Renewable Energy Programs MISSION AND FOCUS OF RESEARCH: ORAL works on improving energy efficiency in new and existing buildings in five major areas: building equipment, especially in developing more efficient heat pumps and appliances; roofs, especially flat or low-slope roofs for commercial buildings, as well as analysis and development of energy, mechanics, and maintenance aspects; thermal envelopes, including the study of thermal anomalies, thermal mass considerations, and diagnostic procedures of energy efficiency; retrofit; and conservation, including responsibility for the Residential Conservation Service (RCS)
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U.S. Department of Energy 1617 Cole Boulevard Golden, CO 80401 303/231-7115 CONTACT: Steve Rubin, Technical Inquiries Service Larry Flowers, Technical Program Integrator Tom Potter, Leader, Conservation Programs MISSION AND FOCUS OR RESEARCH: Serving as the national center for solar energy research, the institute maintains more than 50 specialized laboratories and test facilities for research by the private sector and universities into various components of production, storage, and uses of solar energy in a variety of applications.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 4676 Columbia Parkway Cincinnati, OH 45226 513/841-4221 CONTACT: James Gideon, Chief, Engineering Control Technology Branch MISSION AND FOCUS OF RESEARCH: Taft Laboratory evaluates control techniques and technologies used for the removal of asbestos.
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