by Lily Summers | Jul 14, 2020 | News
The institute for Health in the Built Environment is excited to be the recipient of the USDA Agriculture Research Service grant to address gaps in assessing mass timber as a sustainable building material in whole building life cycle assessments (WBLCA) beginning this...
by Mark Fretz | Jul 14, 2020 | News
The University of Oregon’s Institute for Health in the Built Environment and Biology and the Built Environment Center have been developing a blueprint for saving lives and livelihoods by revealing the unseen in buildings through strategic building environmental...
by Lily Summers | Jul 7, 2020 | News
The IHBE is excited to be a recipient of a second US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant to overcome market barriers to increase the use of structural mass timber in healthcare environments. Structural mass timber products, such as cross-laminated timber (CLT),...
by Lily Summers | Jul 2, 2020 | News
Our new preprint on HVAC and SARS-CoV-2 is now up on MedRxiv and has been submitted for peer review. We identified SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the return air stream, on the 1st filter where fresh air and recirculated air mix, on the final MERV15 filter, and after the final...
by Lily Summers | Jun 30, 2020 | News
The IHBE is excited to be a recipient of the US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant to develop mass plywood panel in building retrofits. University of Oregon and Oregon State University are collaborating through TallWood Design Institute to upgrade aging, energy...
by Lily Summers | Jun 30, 2020 | News
We are living in a time of converging crises. Rents and property values are soaring past the stagnant wages of the labor market, leaving many individuals and families unable to obtain housing and causing immense psychological and physical stress, geographic...
