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As part of our Open Home Project, an interdisciplinary and research driven response to the U.S. housing crisis, we are working...

The Biology and the Built Environment Center and IHBE are looking to add a post-doc to the team! Help us investigate fundamental...

Many of us have moved our offices into our homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this, indoor environments have become...

Listen to Professor Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg explain the impact of daylight and fresh air on our lives from a recent episode of...

One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, indoor aerosols continue to present a risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and a pathway that...

IHBE teams up with collaborators at OHSU to publish, "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Environmental...

The institute for Health in the Built Environment is teaming up with the Oregon State University's College of Forestry to...

At the Institute for Health and the Built Environment, we love having industry partners who can implement our research in the...

Working together with collaborators in infectious disease and surgery at Oregon Health & Science University, a Biology and...

Our director Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg and our researchers at the lab were featured on Good Morning America this morning to...

Hello consortium members, find our latest research update here!  If you'd like to gain access to the full build health...

The IHBE is excited to be a recipient of a second US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant to overcome market barriers to...

Our new preprint on HVAC and SARS-CoV-2 is now up on MedRxiv and has been submitted for peer review. We...

The IHBE is excited to be a recipient of the US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant to develop mass plywood panel in building...

We are living in a time of converging crises. Rents and property values are soaring past the stagnant wages of the labor market,...

In the winter of 2020 the lab was involved in developing  a new senior/graduate level course for design students at the UO...

With air pollution and risk of airborne pathogens in the built environment, the ability to exercise safely outdoors is...

Living in a world working towards reopening and recovering while revamping protocols due to COVID-19 requires intense...

Build Health is excited to welcome its newest industry member, Swinerton! Here at the lab, we believe collaboration between...

Soil health and biodiversity are closely linked to human health. Despite this, we currently know very little about interactions...

Director Van Den Wymelenberg was interviewed by CBS This Morning to share information about the potential indoor aerosol...

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...

Image by Anna Earl from Unsplash.com People worry about having access to clean water, power, health care and healthy foods...

With the recent passing of one of our dearest members, founders and influencers; we are remembering GZ “Charlie” Brown with high...

It was a rainy evening here in Portland last night, but we still had a great turn out for our Sustainable Building Week Event...

IHBE is partnering with Oregon State University and Portland State University to present our research efforts on sustainable...

IHBE and BioBE published their most recent research, "From one species to another: A review on the interaction of chemistry and...

The white paper, “The Impact of Lighting and Views in the Workplace of the Future,” explores how light and the visual...