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...

Article on health and energy tradeoffs for a luminaire level lighting control system published in Energy and Buildings

by srockcas | Nov 30, 2023 | News

A new journal article by Siobhan Rockcastle and Alen Mahic was just published in Energy and Buildings.  This paper introduces a digital simulation workflow that calculates annual eye-level illuminance and energy demand from daylight and electric lighting sources and...

IHBE researchers to present two papers at Building Sim 2023

by srockcas | Aug 14, 2023 | News, Publication, Research

Two research papers have been accepted to the Building Simulation 2023 conference in Shanghai, China. Both papers introduce simulation-based research on circadian health potential in the workplace and disseminate the findings from projects between Baker, ESBL, and...

In Conversation: Talk on the Pandemic Built Environment

by Mira | Apr 4, 2022 | Research, Team Members

See our researchers talk with Jack Gilbert, mSystems Editor-In-Chief, on the pandemic built environment. Read the publication that inspired this conversation here: 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Built Environment Considerations To Reduce Transmission...

Tracking Viruses Through the Vents: New Paper Out

by Mira | Jul 5, 2021 | News, Publication, Research

Can your hospital, apartment, hotel, or office protect you from viral particles in other rooms? We are working on it! In the wake of COVID-19, new ways are needed to track and subdue airborne viruses. Besides wind and breath, the mechanical movers of air, like A/C,...