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New Paper Explores How Wood Influences Indoor Thermal Comfort

New Paper Explores How Wood Influences Indoor Thermal Comfort

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...
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...
Rockcastle and Ahn Awarded an ARS Tallwood Design Institute Grant

Rockcastle and Ahn Awarded an ARS Tallwood Design Institute Grant

by nmclain | Oct 1, 2024 | News

Siobhan Rockcastle and Kyuho Ahn have been awarded an Agricultural Research Services (ARS) Tallwood Design Institute grant through the USDA for the proposal titled, ‘Surface matters: Exploring the impact of finishes on human factors that limit the market adoption of...
New Publication: Novel VOC Breath Tracer Method for Studying Aerosol Transmission

New Publication: Novel VOC Breath Tracer Method for Studying Aerosol Transmission

by Mira | Nov 28, 2022 | News, Publication, Research

It’s important to stay six feet apart, but eventually it stops mitigating disease transmission risk. Several studies suggest that transmission from a distance greater than six feet explains a significant number of COVID-19 superspreading outbreaks. Because of this,...
Social Distancing Only Goes So Far: New Paper on COVID-19 Near & Far Field Exposure & Time

Social Distancing Only Goes So Far: New Paper on COVID-19 Near & Far Field Exposure & Time

by Mira | Mar 30, 2022 | News, Publication, Research

Our latest preprint on COVID-19 and aerosol transmission: “A novel VOC breath tracer method to evaluate indoor respiratory exposures in the near- and far-fields” is available! The public has been told for the majority of the pandemic that we need to keep...
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