Tools
Here follows a brief description of the main tools/equipment present in the LBD that are available to the LBD team as well as graduate and under graduate students:
- 6 workstations (PC+monitor)
- hardware for high quality plotting (A1 and A0 ink-jet plotters, color laserjet and black and white laserjet printers, A4 and A3 scanner, slides scanners)
- software for technical drawing and image processing
- tools for building surveying, both hardware and software
- tools for thermal indoor monitoring: data loggers and probes for air temperature, relative humidity, air speed, local surface temperature, globe-thermal temperature, dew point temperature, thermal flux, lux meter and portable luminance meter
- portable weather station: data loggers and probes for air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, solar radiation
- tools for wall inner moisture investigation (speedy Moisture Tester and gann hydromette HTR 300)
- dendrochronology devices: workstation with software and a precision microscope for tree ring analysis
- Sound level meter for onsite monitoring and detection of acoustic building performance
- Thermal camera for onsite thermal survey of buildings and building elements