古德温大厅

古德温大厅 is the flagship building for the College of Engineering. It houses 40 instructional and re搜索 labs, 八个教室, the Quillen Family Auditorium, and 150 办公室 for several engineering departments. 

不仅仅是教室, 办公室, 和实验室, 古德温大厅 is a ground-breaking experiment to measure even the smallest vibrations made inside the building. The project is designed as a test bed to track data related to building design and security, occupancy monitoring for emergency response, structural health monitoring, 和更多的.

Roughly 240 accelerometers attached to 136 sensor mounts throughout the building’s ceilings will detect information on where people are within the structure, measure normal structural settling and wind loads, and track building movement resulting from earthquakes similar to the event that struck Virginia in 2011. A sensor array mounted outside the building will measure external vibrations, 比如风, the bustle of traffic on nearby Prices Fork Road, the thunderous boom of tens of thousands of Hokie fans celebrating a touchdown at Lane Stadium, and possible seismic activity.