by Mira | Sep 18, 2020 | News, Research
We’ve all heard about limits on the number of people in a shared space, but how can we estimate how safe a space really is? Sure, moving ten people into a room designed for fifty occupants may reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, but if some people in the room...
by Mira | Sep 18, 2020 | News
Check out NPR’s interview with our director, Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, and other leading experts on building healthy office spaces for future pandemics or flu seasons. Van Den Wymelenberg highlights how creative ventilation systems are key to minimizing viral...
by Mira | Sep 1, 2020 | News, Research
What if we could change the spread of COVID-19 by studying building design? What if we could test buildings instead of people for the virus? The University of Oregon’s Institute for Health in the Built Environment, partnered with the Biology and the Built Environment...
by Lily Summers | Aug 21, 2020 | News
IHBE teams up with collaborators at OHSU to publish, “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Environmental Contamination and Childbirth” in the journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. This preliminary research was conducted between...
by Lily Summers | Aug 14, 2020 | News
The institute for Health in the Built Environment is teaming up with the Oregon State University’s College of Forestry to research the impact of different wood species, coatings used, and relative humidity on the resulting microbial communities from mass timber...
by Lily Summers | Aug 11, 2020 | News
At the Institute for Health and the Built Environment, we love having industry partners who can implement our research in the real world. IHBE has been working with one of our founding members, Scott Edwards Architecture, to study the effects of daylight and circadian...
