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Find out the latest news, publications and events happening at the Institute for Health in the Built Environment.
Tracking Viruses Through the Vents: New Paper Out
Can your hospital, apartment, hotel, or office protect you from viral particles in other rooms? We are working on it! In the...
IHBE Receives University of Oregon OVPRI 2021 Innovation Award!
"The translation of research to innovation led by your group to address urgent challenges presented by COVID-19 are commendable...
The Bright Future of Healthy Buildings: New White Paper
In our ongoing work to design sustainable, efficient, and healthy buildings, we have a new publication out that talks about the...
Behavior, Circadian Rhythms, and Lighting: New Paper
Can your office or home lighting be optimized for your health? We think so! While research on circadian rhythms and light has...
New Paper on Grid-Resilient Affordable Housing
As part of our Open Home Project, an interdisciplinary and research driven response to the U.S. housing crisis, we are working...
Seeking Postdoctoral Scholar in Microbial Ecology
The Biology and the Built Environment Center and IHBE are looking to add a post-doc to the team! Help us investigate fundamental...
Quartz talks to IHBE for Article on Indoor Air & Healthy Buildings
Many of us have moved our offices into our homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this, indoor environments have become...
Initial bioaerosol research findings using an active air sampler published by BioBE
The University of Oregon Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE Center) has conducted extensive research using Thermo...
Professor Van Den Wymelenberg explains the impact of daylight and fresh air on our lives in recent podcast
Listen to Professor Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg explain the impact of daylight and fresh air on our lives from a recent episode of...
IHBE and collaborators at Portland State University, Drexel University publish quantitative risk estimation platform for indoor aerosol transmission of COVID-19
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, indoor aerosols continue to present a risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and a pathway that...
Professor Van Den Wymelenberg teams up with CovidStraightTalk.org to create indoor air hacks
COVID Straight Talk is a bi-lingual public health campaign and a project of Last Mile. Its mission is to save lives and protect...
Take the survey! NetZED Lab and IHBE launch survey on building structural material carbon impacts
The University of Oregon Institute for Health in the Built Environment and NetZED lab are conducting a brief survey (we...
Bloomberg Businessweek talks to IHBE for new article on how to make buildings healthier
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the role that built environments play in transmitting the disease has become clear and caused a...
Our Consulting: House Testing for COVID-19 Featured in Elemental
As winter approaches and temperatures drop, social distancing is becoming even more difficult due to the risk of contracting...
Introducing Our Safe Air Spaces COVID-19 Aerosol Risk Estimator
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?...
IHBE’s Healthy Building Ideas Showcased on NPR
Check out NPR’s interview with our director, Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, and other leading experts on building healthy office...
Testing Buildings Might be the Key to COVID-19 Prevention
What if we could change the spread of COVID-19 by studying building design? What if we could test buildings instead of people...
IHBE publishes paper on childbirth and COVID-19
IHBE teams up with collaborators at OHSU to publish, "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Environmental...
IHBE receives grant to study microbial community structure within mass timber products
The institute for Health in the Built Environment is teaming up with the Oregon State University's College of Forestry to...
IHBE collaborates with S|EA on senior living lighting research
At the Institute for Health and the Built Environment, we love having industry partners who can implement our research in the...
BioBE publishes new article on windows and microbes in PeerJ
Working together with collaborators in infectious disease and surgery at Oregon Health & Science University, a Biology and...
IHBE research on COVID-19 and the built environment featured on Good Morning America
Our director Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg and our researchers at the lab were featured on Good Morning America this morning to...
Check out the 2020-2021 Build Health Research Update #1
Hello consortium members, find our latest research update here! If you'd like to gain access to the full build health...
IHBE is awarded ARS grant to help designers better understand issues of carbon in forestry for more sustainable design planning
The institute for Health in the Built Environment is excited to be the recipient of the USDA Agriculture Research Service grant...
IHBE releases blueprint to save lives and livelihoods by testing buildings for COVID-19
The University of Oregon's Institute for Health in the Built Environment and Biology and the Built Environment Center have been...
IHBE receives wood innovations grant to overcome market barriers to increase use of structural mass timber in healthcare environments
The IHBE is excited to be a recipient of a second US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant to overcome market barriers to...
BioBE team together with collaborators at OHSU identify SARS-CoV-2 RNA in HVAC units
Our new preprint on HVAC and SARS-CoV-2 is now up on MedRxiv and has been submitted for peer review. We...
IHBE receives wood innovations grant to develop an application for mass plywood panels in seismic and energy wall retrofits
The IHBE is excited to be a recipient of the US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant to develop mass plywood panel in building...
Mass Plywood Panel modular affordable housing: a proposed solution for the health of individuals, communities and forests
We are living in a time of converging crises. Rents and property values are soaring past the stagnant wages of the labor market,...
Cross-disciplinary class finds innovative solutions to design for healthy aging
In the winter of 2020 the lab was involved in developing a new senior/graduate level course for design students at the UO...
Sports Product design graduate Oli Bartoszek designs an air filtration mask, “Airbender”
With air pollution and risk of airborne pathogens in the built environment, the ability to exercise safely outdoors is...
Coronavirus: hopes for most shops in England to reopen in June – BBC News
Living in a world working towards reopening and recovering while revamping protocols due to COVID-19 requires intense...
Welcome to our newest Build Health industry member, Swinerton!
Build Health is excited to welcome its newest industry member, Swinerton! Here at the lab, we believe collaboration between...
Recruiting gardeners for study: soil diversity and human health in the built environment
Soil health and biodiversity are closely linked to human health. Despite this, we currently know very little about interactions...
IHBE indoor aerosol simulation on CBS This Morning
Director Van Den Wymelenberg was interviewed by CBS This Morning to share information about the potential indoor aerosol...
BioBE is launching a campaign to test buildings for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
Because buildings are the engine of our economy, we should do whatever we can to reduce the risk of indoor transmission. The...
Director Van Den Wymelenberg highlights some of BioBE’s research on the role of the indoor microbiome to support human health and well being.
Director Van Den Wymelenberg highlights some of BioBE’s research on the role of the indoor microbiome to support human health...
Dr. Sue Ishaq publishes paper from Clark Honors College course focusing on microbes and social equity
Image by Anna Earl from Unsplash.com People worry about having access to clean water, power, health care and healthy foods...
COVID-19 and the Built Environment
As corporate entities, city, county, state and federal governments around the world take action against the spread of COVID-19,...
Remembering GZ Brown
With the recent passing of one of our dearest members, founders and influencers; we are remembering GZ “Charlie” Brown with high...
Sustainable Building Week Event at the Lab
It was a rainy evening here in Portland last night, but we still had a great turn out for our Sustainable Building Week Event...
Tracking Viruses Through the Vents: New Paper Out
Can your hospital, apartment, hotel, or office protect you from viral particles in other rooms? We are working on it! In the...
IHBE Receives University of Oregon OVPRI 2021 Innovation Award!
"The translation of research to innovation led by your group to address urgent challenges presented by COVID-19 are commendable...
The Bright Future of Healthy Buildings: New White Paper
In our ongoing work to design sustainable, efficient, and healthy buildings, we have a new publication out that talks about the...
Behavior, Circadian Rhythms, and Lighting: New Paper
Can your office or home lighting be optimized for your health? We think so! While research on circadian rhythms and light has...
New Paper on Grid-Resilient Affordable Housing
As part of our Open Home Project, an interdisciplinary and research driven response to the U.S. housing crisis, we are working...
Seeking Postdoctoral Scholar in Microbial Ecology
The Biology and the Built Environment Center and IHBE are looking to add a post-doc to the team! Help us investigate fundamental...
Quartz talks to IHBE for Article on Indoor Air & Healthy Buildings
Many of us have moved our offices into our homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this, indoor environments have become...
Initial bioaerosol research findings using an active air sampler published by BioBE
The University of Oregon Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE Center) has conducted extensive research using Thermo...
Professor Van Den Wymelenberg explains the impact of daylight and fresh air on our lives in recent podcast
Listen to Professor Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg explain the impact of daylight and fresh air on our lives from a recent episode of...
IHBE and collaborators at Portland State University, Drexel University publish quantitative risk estimation platform for indoor aerosol transmission of COVID-19
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, indoor aerosols continue to present a risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and a pathway that...
Professor Van Den Wymelenberg teams up with CovidStraightTalk.org to create indoor air hacks
COVID Straight Talk is a bi-lingual public health campaign and a project of Last Mile. Its mission is to save lives and protect...
Take the survey! NetZED Lab and IHBE launch survey on building structural material carbon impacts
The University of Oregon Institute for Health in the Built Environment and NetZED lab are conducting a brief survey (we...
Bloomberg Businessweek talks to IHBE for new article on how to make buildings healthier
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the role that built environments play in transmitting the disease has become clear and caused a...
Our Consulting: House Testing for COVID-19 Featured in Elemental
As winter approaches and temperatures drop, social distancing is becoming even more difficult due to the risk of contracting...
Introducing Our Safe Air Spaces COVID-19 Aerosol Risk Estimator
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?...
IHBE’s Healthy Building Ideas Showcased on NPR
Check out NPR’s interview with our director, Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, and other leading experts on building healthy office...
Testing Buildings Might be the Key to COVID-19 Prevention
What if we could change the spread of COVID-19 by studying building design? What if we could test buildings instead of people...
IHBE publishes paper on childbirth and COVID-19
IHBE teams up with collaborators at OHSU to publish, "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Environmental...
IHBE receives grant to study microbial community structure within mass timber products
The institute for Health in the Built Environment is teaming up with the Oregon State University's College of Forestry to...
IHBE collaborates with S|EA on senior living lighting research
At the Institute for Health and the Built Environment, we love having industry partners who can implement our research in the...
BioBE publishes new article on windows and microbes in PeerJ
Working together with collaborators in infectious disease and surgery at Oregon Health & Science University, a Biology and...
IHBE research on COVID-19 and the built environment featured on Good Morning America
Our director Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg and our researchers at the lab were featured on Good Morning America this morning to...
Check out the 2020-2021 Build Health Research Update #1
Hello consortium members, find our latest research update here! If you'd like to gain access to the full build health...
IHBE is awarded ARS grant to help designers better understand issues of carbon in forestry for more sustainable design planning
The institute for Health in the Built Environment is excited to be the recipient of the USDA Agriculture Research Service grant...
IHBE releases blueprint to save lives and livelihoods by testing buildings for COVID-19
The University of Oregon's Institute for Health in the Built Environment and Biology and the Built Environment Center have been...
IHBE receives wood innovations grant to overcome market barriers to increase use of structural mass timber in healthcare environments
The IHBE is excited to be a recipient of a second US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant to overcome market barriers to...
BioBE team together with collaborators at OHSU identify SARS-CoV-2 RNA in HVAC units
Our new preprint on HVAC and SARS-CoV-2 is now up on MedRxiv and has been submitted for peer review. We...
IHBE receives wood innovations grant to develop an application for mass plywood panels in seismic and energy wall retrofits
The IHBE is excited to be a recipient of the US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant to develop mass plywood panel in building...
Mass Plywood Panel modular affordable housing: a proposed solution for the health of individuals, communities and forests
We are living in a time of converging crises. Rents and property values are soaring past the stagnant wages of the labor market,...
Cross-disciplinary class finds innovative solutions to design for healthy aging
In the winter of 2020 the lab was involved in developing a new senior/graduate level course for design students at the UO...
Sports Product design graduate Oli Bartoszek designs an air filtration mask, “Airbender”
With air pollution and risk of airborne pathogens in the built environment, the ability to exercise safely outdoors is...
Coronavirus: hopes for most shops in England to reopen in June – BBC News
Living in a world working towards reopening and recovering while revamping protocols due to COVID-19 requires intense...
Welcome to our newest Build Health industry member, Swinerton!
Build Health is excited to welcome its newest industry member, Swinerton! Here at the lab, we believe collaboration between...
Recruiting gardeners for study: soil diversity and human health in the built environment
Soil health and biodiversity are closely linked to human health. Despite this, we currently know very little about interactions...
IHBE indoor aerosol simulation on CBS This Morning
Director Van Den Wymelenberg was interviewed by CBS This Morning to share information about the potential indoor aerosol...
BioBE is launching a campaign to test buildings for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
Because buildings are the engine of our economy, we should do whatever we can to reduce the risk of indoor transmission. The...
Director Van Den Wymelenberg highlights some of BioBE’s research on the role of the indoor microbiome to support human health and well being.
Director Van Den Wymelenberg highlights some of BioBE’s research on the role of the indoor microbiome to support human health...
Dr. Sue Ishaq publishes paper from Clark Honors College course focusing on microbes and social equity
Image by Anna Earl from Unsplash.com People worry about having access to clean water, power, health care and healthy foods...
COVID-19 and the Built Environment
As corporate entities, city, county, state and federal governments around the world take action against the spread of COVID-19,...
Remembering GZ Brown
With the recent passing of one of our dearest members, founders and influencers; we are remembering GZ “Charlie” Brown with high...
Sustainable Building Week Event at the Lab
It was a rainy evening here in Portland last night, but we still had a great turn out for our Sustainable Building Week Event...