New article in Nature highlights how biology research labs are working to go greener

A newly published article by Professor Andy Tay in the journal Nature highlights the challenges and ways in which universities worldwide, including...

“Grow (IN)’ On!” international building-integrated agriculture visioning summit a wild success!

Around 70 enthusiastic design professionals, urban farmers, entrepreneurs, housing developers, government professionals, urban planners,...

Grow(in)’ On! — A visioning summit to advance Agriculture in the Built Environment

The goal of this Visioning Summit is to identify critical challenges, barriers, benefits, and opportunities as we create a network of professionals...

Article on the use of virtual screens published in LEUKOS

An article co-authored by Siobhan Rockcastle, Galen Sollom-Brotherton Whalen, Aaron Milgrim, and Robert Davis titled, “The Use of Virtual Screens in...

Article on health and energy tradeoffs for a luminaire level lighting control system published in Energy and Buildings

A new journal article by Siobhan Rockcastle and Alen Mahic was just published in Energy and Buildings.  This paper introduces a digital simulation...

Build Health 2023 event announced, November 3rd, 5-8PM

Our annual research consortium event, Build Health, is a time during which we convene a diverse transdisciplinary group from academia, industry,...

Microbiomes of garden vs supermarket produce and effects on the human gut microbiome

Did you know that every day, we eat billions of microbes (bacteria, fungi, viruses) inhabiting our food? According to Wasserman et al. (2019), a...

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Our mission is to develop new design concepts for the realization of healthy and sustainable inhabited space. We do this by forming unconventional transdisciplinary collaborations that conduct research where architecture, biology, medicine, chemistry, and engineering intersect and translate it into design practice through a consortium of invested industry partners.  Our understanding of what a “healthy building” constitutes – from its complex microbiome, its chemistry, its provision of light and air, and its energy and carbon footprint – is fragmented, underdeveloped, and too often not reflected in practice. The Institute for Health in the Built Environment pursues an integrated approach to conducting and applying research so that every built environment provides health at multiple scales, from individual to planetary. IHBE is dedicated to focusing on equity for individuals and communities who face health disparities due to the creation and operation of built environments.