2025 Build Health Symposium

The University of Oregon’s industry research consortium, Build Health, integrates knowledge from radical collaboration across diverse disciplines to design healthier built environments from scales as small as microbes or molecules and as large as atmospheric carbon.

Please join us on November 13th from 4-7pm for the 2025 event to design healthier spaces for individuals, communities and planet.

To encourage the cross pollination of ideas between industry and academia, our members and collaborators will share updates for a series of IHBE projects.  Invited presenters will follow a pecha kucha format to promote conversation and seek out future collaborators and ideas. Presentations will include mass timber research, building integrated agriculture (AgBE), lighting for health, low-carbon healthcare, biomimicry, and other innovative topics.

Agenda:
4:00 pm | Arrival, Food and Drinks
4:30 pm | Introduction – Siobhan Rockcastle, UO IHBE
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4:35 pm | Short Talks (5-10 minutes each)
Dylan Wood, University of Oregon, Architecture | Mass Timber Research
Josh Pelham, Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance | Better Bricks
Chris Meek, University of Washington | Integrated Design Lab Research
William Silva, Swinerton,  Edward Running, FFA, and Mark Fretz, University of Oregon, | Forest to Facade
Atousa Momenai, University of Oregon, Architecture | Window Design and External View
Ruiji Sun, University of Oregon, Environmental Studies | Passive Thermal Comfort and Controls
Charlotte Kamman, University of Oregon Alumni | Bio Acoustic Assemblies
Kory Russel, University of Oregon, Landscape Architecture | Wastewater and Health
Siobhan Rockcastle, University of Oregon, Architecture | Circadian Design Guide
Kyuho Ahn, University of Oregon, Interior Architecture | Interior Finishes and Occupant Perception
Tom Knittel, HDR | Timber Technology in Healthcare Design
Lisa Podesto, Swinterton, and Mark Fretz, University of Oregon, Architecture | Mass Timber Hospital
Mike Raley, University of Oregon, OARL, George Kourtis, Liniar Studio, and Jonathan Hepner, Lever | OARL Acoustics Lab
Mark Fretz, University of Oregon, Architecture, and Jessica Elkan, James Beard Public Market | James Beard Public Market
 
6:25 | Closing Comments – Mark Fretz, UO IHBE
6:30 | Socialize
7:00 | Event End