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New Paper on Multimodal Surveillance of COVID-19 in the Built Environment

New Paper on Multimodal Surveillance of COVID-19 in the Built Environment

by nmclain | Mar 20, 2025 | News

Researchers at the Institute for Health in the Build Environment (IHBE) are among the contributors of a new paper in Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology on methods of detecting COVID-19 in a built environment. Environmental surveillance holds...
New Paper: Toward Integrating Numeric Disease Transmission Risk in Energy Code and Ventilation Standards

New Paper: Toward Integrating Numeric Disease Transmission Risk in Energy Code and Ventilation Standards

by Mira | Nov 8, 2022 | News, Publication, Research

What if every building you entered was filtering out airborne pathogens, harmful particulates, and actively monitoring the microbial particles in the air all while saving energy? We have a new paper out on how standards can be updated to require safer air in energy...
In the News: Innovation for Managing Future Epidemics

In the News: Innovation for Managing Future Epidemics

by Mira | Jun 22, 2022 | News, Publication, Research

Our work on air quality and viral spread has been featured in the University of Oregon publication Around the O. Improving air quality, health screenings, and public health messaging—research performed at the UO points to better strategies for managing future...
Initial bioaerosol research findings using an active air sampler published by BioBE

Initial bioaerosol research findings using an active air sampler published by BioBE

by Mark Fretz | Mar 24, 2021 | News

The University of Oregon Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE Center) has conducted extensive research using Thermo Fisher Scientific’s AerosolSense air sampler.  AerosolSense is an active air sampler that pulls 200 L/minute of room air into the unit for...

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