Mobile Building Training Vehicle With Simulated Attic Errors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional training systems for building weatherization and building science require personnel to travel to actual buildings, leading to increased time and cost due to travel and accommodation expenses, especially in rural areas.
Innovation Solution
A mobile training and testing system housed in a vehicle equipped with multiple rooms, including an attic and a CAZ room, featuring simulated building features and mechanical systems, allowing for on-site training and testing at various geographic locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional training systems use actual buildings for training, then training realism and authenticity are improved, but travel time and cost for personnel increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a mobile training facility that replicates actual building structures, mechanical systems, and training scenarios within a transportable unit. This copying approach allows personnel to receive authentic training experiences without traveling to distant training sites, resolving the contradiction between training authenticity and travel time requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The training system is designed to be mobile and dynamically relocatable rather than fixed. The entire training facility can be moved to different geographic locations, allowing personnel to access training at their local areas while maintaining the authenticity of the training environment through realistic simulations of building systems and scenarios
2Ease of operation
If training facilities are located in rural areas, then accessibility to remote personnel is improved, but infrastructure availability and setup complexity worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The training facility is designed as a mobile unit that can be transported to and set up in various locations including rural areas. This dynamic, relocatable design improves accessibility to remote personnel while the self-contained nature of the mobile facility reduces setup complexity compared to establishing permanent infrastructure in remote locations
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile training facility is designed as a self-contained universal system that includes multiple training rooms, mechanical systems, and support infrastructure all in one unit. This multi-functional design allows the facility to operate independently in any location without requiring external infrastructure, simplifying setup in rural areas while maintaining broad accessibility
3Reliability
If personnel travel to training locations, then training quality is maintained, but travel and accommodation costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
By creating a complete replica of the training environment within a mobile facility, personnel can receive high-quality training at their local locations without incurring travel and accommodation costs. The copying of the entire training ecosystem maintains training quality while eliminating the need for personnel to travel
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile training facility acts as an intermediary that brings the training environment to the personnel rather than requiring personnel to travel to the training environment. This intermediary approach maintains training quality by providing realistic simulations while eliminating travel-related costs and energy expenditure
Data Source
AI summary
A vehicle configured to move from a first geographic location to a second geographic location for at least one of building training or testing at each of the first and second geographic locations is disclosed. The vehicle has a plurality of rooms including an attic, an attic space disposed in the attic, attic framing disposed in the attic, the attic framing separating the attic space from an empty space, and at least one structural assembly disposed in the attic space and that simulates an attic error to be found during the at least one of building training or testing. The attic framing is disposed at an angle.