Annual Plan to apply the RTI 2016 installment in costs relative to institutional infrastructure for research

• Grant number: 16/23952-5
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Technical Reserve for Institutional Research Infrastructure
• Start date: February 01, 2017
• End date: January 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Civil Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Renato Altobelli Antunes
• Grantee: Renato Altobelli Antunes
• Host Institution: Centro de Engenharia, Modelagem e Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (CECS). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research laboratories located in CECS are hosting post-graduation and undergraduation students. Furthermore, several high technology scientific instruments of elevated cost are located in the CECS laboratories and are bound to research projects. In this regard, an emergency demand for adaptation of the ar-conditioning infrastructure has emerged to attend these labs, thus avoiding that the scientific instruments are subjected to overheating that, in turn, can lead to loss of research data and instrument failure. (AU)