Students and faculty in the Building Technology Program have access to a wide range of facilities. The Program maintains its own laboratory spaces for research, computation and teaching. These include a full- scale environmental chamber, small-scale prototyping facilities, and advanced workstations. Projects are also performed in the Mechanical Engineering department's Heat Transfer Laboratory, in the Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems, in Civil and Environmental Engineering labs, and on-site in buildings. MIT's extensive system of networked computer workstations is also available.
Building Technology Laboratory in N51
Major Equipment
- Two environmental test chambers
Two HVAC systems
A flow visualization system
A hot-sphere anemometer system
A tracer-gas system
A thermo-couple system
Three SiliconGraphics workstations
A view of the test chamber |
The control panel for one of the HVAC systems |
A part of the ADD boards for data acquisition |
The tracer gas analyzer and sampler |
Functions of the Facilities
- Indoor Air Quality
Thermal Comfort
Energy Conservation in Buildings
HVAC System Design and Control
In addition to various research projects, the facility is also used for teaching in the following subjects
- 4.411 Building Technology Laboratory
4.42J Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings
4.425 Energy in Building Design
4.427J Analysis & Design of HVAC Systems
4.481 Building Technology Seminar