by nmclain | Aug 11, 2025 | News
A recent OregonNews feature highlights how the College of Design is preparing students for careers in architecture through a hands-on studio course led by IHBE co-director Mark Fretz. In this course, students designed hospitals built from mass timber, a sustainable...
by nmclain | Jul 22, 2025 | News
Following our exciting new research into how mass timber can improve healthcare settings and their microbiomes, OregonNews has picked up the story and is helping share our findings. While wood has long been considered too unsanitary for hospital use, recent studies...
by nmclain | Jul 19, 2025 | News
Siobhan Rockcastle presented a keynote at the 2025 Daylight Academy Conference in Munich on May 22nd, 2025. The talk, titled ‘Designing healthy daylit spaces: the intersection between research and practice’ presented applied consulting work in daylight...
by nmclain | May 20, 2025 | News, Publication
Mark Fretz and Jason Stenson of the Institute For Health in the Built Environment (IHBE) and Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL) have published a new paper in Buildings, titled Impact of Wood on Perception of Transient and Steady-State Indoor Thermal...
by nmclain | May 9, 2025 | News
Has the solution been found to housing shortages throughout Oregon? The Oregon Mass Timber Coalition’s new video, titled Housing Solution: The Mass Plywood Home, demonstrates the amazing utility of mass plywood in creating affordable housing. Not only is mass...
