> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://cbe-berkeley.gitbook.io/fans-guidebook/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://cbe-berkeley.gitbook.io/fans-guidebook/about-this-work/acknowledgment.md). # Acknowledgment This work was partly funded by the industry consortium members of the [Center for the Built Environment (CBE)](https://cbe.berkeley.edu/), [University of California, Berkeley](https://www.berkeley.edu/) and partly by the [Republic of Singapore's National Research Foundation](https://www.nrf.gov.sg/) through the SinBerBEST program. We thank Samuel Foo, Chuan Seng Lee, Yang Lim Lem, Komang Narendra, Majid Sapar, Yvonne Soh, Kiat Leong Tan, and Irene Yong for their valuable comments and support. We want to thank [Christian Taber](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-taber-26494016a/), [Tim Jukes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-jukes-76b4761b3/), and [Ole Jochen Stockhausen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ole-jochen-stockhausen-7672b1/) for the valuable discussions on the use of fans. This work is based on decades of research on fans. We want to thank some of the key researchers that helped in this process: Edward Arens, Gail Brager, Carlos Roa Duarte, Lindsay Graham, Charlie Huizenga, Ollie Jay, David Lehrer, Aleksandra Lipczyńska, Shuo Liu, Arsens Krikor Melikov, Asit Mishra, Jovan Pantelic, Chandra Sekhar, Costas Spanos, William W Nazaroff, Gwelen Paliaga, Tom Parkinson, Dongyun Rim, Federico Tartarini, Kwok Wai Tham, Yan Bing, Le Yin, and Hui Zhang. ## Conflict of interests The Center for the Built Environment (CBE) at the University of California, Berkeley, with which some of the authors are affiliated, is advised and funded, in part, by many partners that represent a diversity of organizations from the building industry, including manufacturers, building owners, facility managers, contractors, architects, engineers, government agencies, and utilities. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter, and the optional `goal` query parameter: ``` GET https://cbe-berkeley.gitbook.io/fans-guidebook/about-this-work/acknowledgment.md?ask=&goal= ``` `ask` is the immediate question: it should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. `goal` is optional and describes the broader end goal you are ultimately trying to accomplish on behalf of the user. GitBook uses it to tailor the answer towards what is most useful for that goal. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.