2020-2021 Build Health Research Report #2
Universal Design Healthy Aging Mobility Thermal Regulation Human Performance Medicine Environmental Science Physiology Psychology Engineering Chemistry
SPORTS PRODUCT DESIGN
COLLABORATING RESEARCH LABS
Ventilation Net Zero Energy Thermal Comfort Integrated Design Acoustics
Biology Indoor Ecology | Microbiome Computational Biology Microbial Networks Infection
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BIOLOGY AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT CENTER
Radical Collaboration The Institute for Health in the Built Environment advances, integrates, and applies new knowledge from diverse scientific disciplines to support healthy individuals, communities and planet. Our mission is to develop new design concepts for the realization of healthy and sustainable inhabited space. We do this by forming unconventional collaborations that conduct research where architecture, biology, medicine, chemistry and engineering intersect and translate it into design practice through a consortium of invested industry partners with applied impact.
Virtual Daylighting Circadian Simulation Mood
BAKER LIGHT LABOR
Operational Carbon Embodied Carbon Case Studies
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BUILD HEALTH INDUSTRY CONSORTIUM
BUILD HEALTH 2020 - 2021
SARS-CoV-2 in the built environment COVID Straight Talk - ‘Hacks’ Tricia Wang - Last Mile Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg - BioBE, IHBE
Professor Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg recently teamed with COVID Straight Talk to consult on the development of a series of ‘hacks’ to make spaces safer for essential workers. COVID Straight Talk is a public health campaign and a project of Last Mile. Its mission is to save lives and protect livelihoods by providing accessible public health information on COVID-19 and accelerating policy change for workplace indoor air safety. Part of its work is to bring together a network of scientists, labor unions, workers’ centers, and communication specialists to pass national and local indoor air-ventilation policy designed to keep the most at-risk frontline workers safe from contracting COVID-19. The website, COVID Straight Talk, in Spanish and English, features urgently needed, life-saving tips and toolkits on indoor air-ventilation to reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace. To pass policy changes, COVID Straight Talk launched a worker advocacy initiative, teaming labor organizers up with unions and workers organizations to advocate for workplace changes by implementing COVID Straight Talk’s M.A.D. (Masks, Air, Distance) Guidelines. COVID is disproportionately impacting Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities. They are suffering from the highest infection and mortality rates, and reaching these communities is critically urgent. Due to structural barriers, they are dying at alarming rates. Black people are 3.2 times, Latinx are 3.2 times, and Indigenous people are 3.1 times more likely to die from the virus than white Americans. An estimated 1 in 920 Black Americans has already died of COVID-19. This rate could increase to as many as 1 in 500 by January 2021. An overwhelming majority of children and teenagers who have died from COVID-19 in the United States were Black or Latinx. We need to act quickly. Not taking immediate and decisive actions puts both more lives and livelihoods at risk. Covid Straight Talk is a program of Last Mile, a volunteerrun, not-for-profit organization based in NYC whose mission is to protect communities most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Last Mile is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grantee and is fiscally sponsored by the Urban Justice Center, one of the most extensive pro bono legal service organizations protecting vulnerable communities in the United States.
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INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT buildhealth.uoregon.edu
BUILD HEALTH 2020 - 2021
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COVID Straight Talk
Get M.A.D. and Stay Safe Take our 3-minute M.A.D. Survey to get personalized tips to reduce the risk of COVID-19 in your workplace A Unique Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Between Architecture, Scientists and Industry at University of Oregon
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Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, PhD
Director, Institute for Health in the Built Environment Director, Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory Co-Director, Biology and the Built Environment Center Associate Professor of Architecture
Mark Fretz
Associate Director of Knowledge Exchange Institute for Health in the Built Environment mfretz@uoregon.edu 503 412 3656 | cell 503 539 0033
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