by Mark Fretz | Dec 14, 2025 | News
IHBE Co-Director Mark Fretz discusses healthy buildings with KLCC’s Barbara Dellenback on the Oregon Grapevine. Fretz talks about IHBE design research and topics range from growing building materials to opening your windows. Share this:Share Click to share on...
by Mark Fretz | Dec 14, 2025 | News
Design research conducted by the Institute for Health in the Built Environment was recently featured in Nature in an article titled, “The probiotic home: Where microbes are welcome guests,” by Katherine Bourzac. The article was part of Nature Outlook: The...
by nmclain | May 20, 2025 | News, Publication
Mark Fretz and Jason Stenson of the Institute For Health in the Built Environment (IHBE) and Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL) have published a new paper in Buildings, titled Impact of Wood on Perception of Transient and Steady-State Indoor Thermal...
by nmclain | Apr 23, 2025 | News
University of Oregon’s monthly research and innovation newsletter, Pursuit, features an article about an exciting project from the Institute for Health in the Built Environment (IHBE): acoustic mushrooms! IHBE co-director, Mark Fretz, and fifth-year architecture...
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...
