by Mark Fretz | Dec 14, 2025 | News
IHBE Co-Director Mark Fretz discusses healthy buildings with KLCC’s Barbara Dellenback on the Oregon Grapevine. Fretz talks about IHBE design research and topics range from growing building materials to opening your windows. Share this:Share Click to share on...
by Mark Fretz | Dec 14, 2025 | News
Design research conducted by the Institute for Health in the Built Environment was recently featured in Nature in an article titled, “The probiotic home: Where microbes are welcome guests,” by Katherine Bourzac. The article was part of Nature Outlook: The...
by Mark Fretz | Sep 26, 2024 | News
A newly published article by Professor Andy Tay in the journal Nature highlights the challenges and ways in which universities worldwide, including the Biology and the Built Environment Center, have been battling the single-use plastic waste stream associated with...
by Mark Fretz | Sep 26, 2024 | News
Around 70 enthusiastic design professionals, urban farmers, entrepreneurs, housing developers, government professionals, urban planners, place-makers, and researchers traveled from the UK, Canada and 11 U.S. states last week to attend the first ever Grow (IN)’...
by Mark Fretz | Oct 2, 2023 | Build Health, Events, News, Research
Our annual research consortium event, Build Health, is a time during which we convene a diverse transdisciplinary group from academia, industry, government, and non-profit sectors to present and share research at the intersection of health for individuals,...
