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THURSDAY JUNE 16, 2022 & FRIDAY JUNE 17, 2022
21 BUILD HEALTH 22 SYMPOSIUM Transpecies Design: Beyond the Built Event Overview JUNE 16, 2022 Research presentations, networking and evening reception (Members, Affiliates, Collaborators) In-Person Location: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene JUNE 17, 2022 Consortium administration/steering, research priorities for 2022-23 (Members, Collaborators) In-Person Location: Lawrence Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene
Hybrid Virtual Location: Click HERE to join us on Zoom
Event Goals and Housekeeping The goal of this meeting is to present cutting-edge research from 2021-2022 associated with health in the built environment and encourage trans-disciplinary collaboration in academia and industry to improve the design and operation of built environments. A few meeting housekeeping items will facilitate successful event outcomes: 1.
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Please engage presenters with questions and comments. Due to a full agenda, we may not always have time for Q&A. Therefore, please submit questions either in the “chat” for virtual attendees or write on “sticky notes” at tables for in-person attendees. Questions will be recorded and answered by panelists on-line after their presentations. Please mute your microphone if you are not talking but leave your camera on to “be in the room” with us. We encourage you to read the speaker bios in this document prior to the symposium. Due to a full agenda, we will not formally introduce each speaker. We have two scheduled breaks (10:30 for morning talks, 2:45 for afternoon talks) for some time away from the screen or to network and socialize in person, plus a break to serve lunch at 12:00 before the keynote presentation at 12:15. This meeting is being recorded. By joining, you are agreeing to opt-in.
21 BUILD HEALTH 22 SYMPOSIUM THURSDAY JUNE 16, 2022
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM MICROBES AND HEALTH INDOORS
9:00 AM WELCOME Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, Director, IHBE
COVID Research Highlights Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, Director, IHBE
Microbial Rules of Life Airways Mucosal Defense of Elderly and Sick People Needs Support from Building Services Against Aerogenic Threats, Including SARS-CoV-2 Viruses
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EMBODIED CARBON AND THE IMPACT OF MATERIALS ON HEALTH
Combining Energy and COVID into Code
Rethinking the Steel Industrial Archetype in Low-Carbon Timber Frames
Amanda Schiff, BioBE
Walter Hugentobler, EPFL
Hooman Parhizkar, BioBE
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM TRANSPECIES DESIGN Dean Adrian Parr, College of Design
Simone O’Halloran, UO Dept. of Architecture
Forest Restoration for Local CLT Manufacture and Design
Payton Narancic, UO Dept. of Architecture
Recycled Shoe Waste Acoustic Mats for MassTimber Using a Mycelium Binder Gemma Fucigna, UO Dept. of Architecture
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM NATURE, ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH NatureQuant : Developing Technology to Assess and Promote Nature Exposure Chris Minson, UO Dept. of Human Physiology
Impacts of Environmental, Contextual, and Window Shading Factors on Occupant Experience and Performance Anupam Satumane, Baker Lighting Lab
Climate Solutions: Working Toward a Just and Livable Future Adell Amos, UO School of Law
4:15 PM INTRODUCTION OF NEW MEMBERS
Designing for Wellness Focusing on Material Selections and Material Transparency Tori Wickard, Perkins&Will
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM INDOOR ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH Perceptual Accuracy of Virtual Lighting Design Siobhan Rockcastle, Baker Lighting Lab
Past, Present, Future: Indoor Environmental Quality Drivers of School Design Maria Camila Coronado, NetZED Lab
Prioritizing Occupant Health for a Sustainable Future
David Burchfield and Teshome Jiru, Burch Energy Services, LLC
Development of a Micro Acoustic Test Chamber for Mass Timber Design Jason Stenson, ESBL
5:00 PM ADJOURN 5:30 PM
EVENING RECEPTION Lawrence Hall, Hayden Gallery
21 BUILD HEALTH 22 SYMPOSIUM FRIDAY JUNE 17, 2022 Only Members, Staff, Collaborators
9:00 AM BREAKFAST AND NETWORKING Industry Members and IHBE Staff
Welcome to the 2022 Build Health Symposium, Industry Consortium Meeting.
10:00 AM BREAK
9:30 AM ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, Director, IHBE Mark Fretz, Associate Director of Outreach, IHBE
We will cover Build Health operational investment for the past year and will describe recent funding awards, proposals on the horizon and opportunities to leverage your investment.
10:15 AM RESEARCH PRIORITIES WORKSHOP FOR 2022-2023 Industry Members and IHBE Staff
Presentation of research concerns and needs identified from conversations on Thursday. Followed by a member led discussion, IHBE staff will identify areas of overlap and synergies. Member’s vote to create a rank list to establish research priorities. Followed by funding priorities and allocations based on research priorities.
12:00 PM ADJOURN Thank you for another successful year, see you at the next industry consortium meeting!
11:45 AM NEXT STEPS Industry Members and IHBE Staff
UO faculty will discuss proposed classes for 2022-2023 and opportunities for collaboration. Industry will identify projects with which they would like to directly collaborate. Re-examine 2021-2022 strategies for disseminating findings and staying connected.What worked well? What needs adjustment / improvement? Group will make recommendations.
21 BUILD HEALTH 22 PRESENTERS Transpecies Design: Beyond the Built
Amanda Schiff Amanda Pesqueira Schiff was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She is currently working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Microbial Ecology with the Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE) at the University of Oregon. In 2008, Amanda began her undergraduate studies in Animal Sciences at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil. During her undergraduate senior year, she was an exchange student with the Animal and Food Sciences Department at the University of Kentucky. Upon graduation, Amanda continued her studies with the Animal and Food Sciences Department at the University of Kentucky, where she obtained her M.S. degree in 2016, and her Ph.D. in 2022. Her academic career focused on ruminant nutrition and physiology, studying animal gut microbial community dynamics and their effects on animal whole-body metabolism.
Hooman Parhizkar Dr. Hooman Parhizkar is a post-doctoral researcher at Institute for Health in the Built Environment (IHBE), collaborating with Energy Studies in Building Laboratory (ESBL) and the Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE) at the University of Oregon. He studies healthy buildings, indoor air quality, and airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus during 2019 novel Coronavirus pandemic in the context of building operation, design, and environmental mitigation strategies. His current research focuses on novel real-time monitoring of bioaerosols via biotracers to improve human health against viral pathogens while maximizing energy savings in buildings.
Walter Hugentobler Study of Medicine at Zurich University 1978 - 1985 Postgraduate training for MD of General Internal Medicine 1985 - 2012 GP practice (Primary Care/Family Medicine) Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Primary Care, University of Zurich Since 2013 academic & medical advisor of Condair, Innovation and Technology AG Member of the LAPI Research team (Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Thirty years of medical experience on “interactions of human health, indoor climate and the built environment”.
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Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon, the Director of the Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory in Eugene and Portland, OR, and Co-Director of the Biology and the Built Environment Center. He has a PhD in the Built Environment from the University of Washington. He teaches classes in daylighting, integrated design principles, energy performance in buildings, and design. Van Den Wymelenberg has consulted on several hundred new construction and major renovation projects with architects and engineers regarding daylight, energy in buildings, and indoor environmental quality since 2000. Five of these projects have been recognized with AIA’s Committee on the Environment Top 10 Awards and many others are LEED certified. He has presented at many conferences including the National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, the Illuminating Engineering Society, LightFair International, and Passive Low Energy Architecture. He has authored several papers and two books related to daylighting, visual comfort, and low energy design strategies. Kevin is the Chair of the IESNA’s Daylight Metrics Committee and co-author on IES document LM83 that serves as partial basis for the LEED V4 Daylighting Credit. Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg served as Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Idaho College of Art and Architecture in Boise, from 2004-2015. He was the founding Director of the Integrated Design Lab in Boise (UI-IDL) and served there as professor from 2004-2015, completing over $7M in funded research and outreach in daylighting and energy efficiency for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, United States Environment Protection Agency, Idaho Power Company, the New Buildings Institute and others. He maintains an affiliate appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Idaho. Thirty years of medical experience on “interactions of human health, indoor climate and the built environment”.
Simone O’Halloran Simone O’Halloran is a current graduate student at the University of Oregon pursuing a masters degree focused on mass timber design. In her graduate research, Simone is exploring creating a more sustainable structural frame system using mass timber across scales ranging from small commercial projects to large industrial projects. As a designer, Simone is interested in creating architecture that benefits the environment while reflecting the regional community.
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Payton Narancic Payton’s passion for sustainable and resilient architecture stems from progressive trends in Scandinavia and the Pacific Northwest where she has spent time studying their unique approaches to design. This inspired her to return to school at the University of Oregon to pursue a Master’s degree focused on mass timber design. Payton is interested in the dynamics between forestry and architecture and how they can be integrated to create nature-driven, climate-positive design that is both spiritually fulfilling and environmentally inclusive.
Gemma Fucigna Gemma Fucigna recently graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Architecture and minors in Planning, Public Policy, and Management as well as Historic Preservation. After spending four years at the Eugene campus, Gemma relocated to Portland to finish school and pursue her professional architecture career. Gemma has focused much of her academic studies towards sustainability efforts in both design and research. This work includes daylighting analysis, mass timber life cycle analysis, strawbale construction methods, and embodied carbon studies. When she is not in studio or in front of design software, you can find Gemma reading in the sun, drawing, hiking in the Oregon wilderness, and lifting things in the gym.
Tori Wickard Tori Wickard, AIA, RID, LEED AP is a Senior Associate and Senior Project Architect at Perkins&Will. She grew up in a small town in East Texas and followed her father’s footsteps to the University of Texas at Austin and completed her Professional Residency Program at Kohn Pederson Fox in London. During her time in London and her travels abroad, she developed a keen interest in other cultures, deep respect for the planet, and a stronger sense of the interconnectedness of its inhabitants. After the passing of her mother to breast cancer in 2014, Tori has become a passionate advocate of transparency and optimization around building materials. She co-directs the Material Performance Taskforce in the Dallas Studio of Perkins & Will and serves on the Advisory Board for the American Cancer Society North Texas Area. She firmly believes as an architect it’s her mission to creatively address challenges in the built environment, which includes consideration of environmental and human health impacts.
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Adrian Parr Adrian Parr, PhD, is an internationally recognized environmental, political, and cultural thinker and activist, author, and filmmaker. The new dean of the College of Design at the University of Oregon, she is also a Senior Fellow at the Design Futures Council. Prior to joining the UO, she served as the dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington, and as the director of the Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati. Adrian is a transdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of architecture criticism, aesthetics, political theory, and environmental studies. She’s authored eight books, the latest three of which focused on environmental politics and sustainability culture, and she has served as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) water chair for eight years. The driving force behind her work is the question of how to overcome ecological and economic scarcity. She asserts that environmental devastation and climate change are crimes against humanity. Her 2016 documentary, “The Intimate Realities of Water,” won more than a dozen awards, including Best Documentary at the 2016 United International Independent Film Festival.
Christopher Minson Christopher Minson is the Kenneth and Kenda Singer Endowed Professor of Human Physiology and co-director of the Exercise and Environmental Physiology Labs at historic Hayward Field. He is also the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of NatureQuant, LLC, a technology start-up company. Dr. Minson is an environmental physiologist. The overarching goal of his work is to better understand the basic mechanisms of blood pressure and blood flow regulation, and to find novel ways to utilize environmental exposure in the prevention and treatment of disease. Particular areas of interest for Dr. Minson include topics related to women’s health, aging, and hypertension. He is also interested in the physiology of athletic performance, and has worked with many professional sports teams, Olympians, and collegiate athletes in the US and around the world. Dr. Minson received his PhD in exercise science from The Pennsylvania State University and subsequently trained as a post-doctoral fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Minson has received research awards from the American Physiological Society and the American College of Sports Medicine, mentor awards from the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon and the University of Oregon, and is a recipient of a University of Oregon Faculty Excellence Award.
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Anupam Satumane Anupam Satumane is a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Oregon with research interests in environmental psychology, human behavior, workplace experience, and sustainable design. His doctoral research investigates the influence of social, contextual, and environmental factors on human perception of the built environment, focusing on occupant health, satisfaction, performance, and creativity to improve workplace sustainability. In addition to research, he is a licensed Architect (India) with experience on projects in India and internationally. Anupam is expected to graduate from the Ph.D. program at the University of Oregon in 2023.
Adell Amos Adell L. Amos holds the Clayton R. Hess Professorship at the University of Oregon School of Law and serves as the Executive Director of the UO’s Environment Initiative. She teaches regularly in the nationally ranked Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program, including courses in Water Law, Federal Administrative Law, Environmental Conflict Resolution, and Oregon Water Law and Policy. Her teaching and scholarship have been recognized by the UO Fund for Faculty Excellence and the Hollis Teaching Awards. Her most recent research focuses on the integration of law and policy into hydrologic and socioeconomic modeling for the Willamette River Basin through a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary effort funded by the NOAA and the National Science Foundation. Professor Amos earned her B.A in 1995 from Drury College and her J.D. in 1998 from the University of Oregon (Coif). She is a member of the Missouri bar, admitted in 1999. After law school, Amos clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for The Honorable Procter Hug, Jr. (then Chief Judge). Amos first joined the faculty in 2005 after practicing environmental and natural resources law with the U.S. Department of Interior. In 2008, Amos returned to Washington DC to serve in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Solicitor for Land and Water Resources at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Amos returned to the UO School of Law in 2011 as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Amos’ research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy, Nature Sustainability, as well as many law reviews and journals. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Hewlett Foundation’s Open Rivers Fund. In recognition of her work on water law and policy, she served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Environmental Law at Vermont Law School and has been a frequent keynote speaker and panelist for a wide range of organizations including the National Judicial College, Washington University, American Water Resources Association, the Oregon Legislative Caucus, the Federal District Court Conference, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and the Wingspread Foundation. Her work has received funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Commerce – NOAA Fisheries, Natural Resources Defense Council, the NorthLight Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of the Interior – Bureau of Land Management, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, among others.
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Siobhan Rockcastle Siobhan is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon, Director of the Baker Lighting Lab, and co-founder of OCULIGHT dynamics, a company offering specialized daylight design support to promote healthy indoor occupation. She explores topics at the intersection of architectural design, environmental dynamics, human perception, and daylight performance with a focus on well-being. Siobhan’s current work uses simulation and virtual reality to model and design experiential lighting environments. She serves on the Board of SimAUD (Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design) and was the general chair for SimAUD 2019 in Atlanta, GA. She received her PhD in 2017 from the LIPID lab in the Doctoral Program in Architecture and Sciences of the City (EDAR) at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL). Her doctoral dissertation was awarded a ‘special distinction’ as one of 9 dissertations short-listed for the Top Thesis Prize from across all EPFL doctoral programs in 2017. Siobhan earned her professional BArch from Cornell University in 2008, graduating with the Alpha Rho Chi Medal and her SMArchS degree in Building Technology from MIT in 2011, graduating with a top thesis award from the department of architecture. She was a teaching associate at Cornell in 2008, where she taught first year studio design courses. In 2011, Siobhan received a teaching fellowship at Northeastern University where she coordinated and taught 5th year comprehensive architectural design, advanced topics in daylight performance, and environmental systems. Her professional work experience includes 2 years of project management at KVA matX in Boston where she worked on the Minneapolis riverFIRST development initiative, Beaver Wood Vault, Solar Soft Rockers and 3M Sunlight Delivery project. Before the start of her PhD, Siobhan worked for Snøhetta NY, MSR design in Minneapolis, Epiphyte lab in Ithaca, and Gensler NY. She consults on lighting design integration and environmental performance for a number of architectural and urban-scale projects in Switzerland and the USA. As a continuation of her work at MIT, Siobhan’s PhD research proposed new metrics that predict the impacts of daylight and spatial composition on perception and emotion in architecture. She has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed papers on lighting perception and simulation and presented her research at IBPSA, SimAUD (Best paper award in 2012), Velux Daylight Symposium, PLEA, LUX EUROPA, LIGHTFAIR International, and Transsolar Research Days.
María Camila Coronado C. María Camila Coronado is a Ph.D. candidate in Architecture program at the University of Oregon. She is a Graduate Teaching Fellow affiliated with the NetZED Laboratory, working under the direction of Professor Alison Kwok. She is interested in indoor environmental quality in educational buildings. Her research concentrates on the areas of thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and occupant health with a focus in school buildings. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and a Master of Architecture with an emphasis on Sustainable Design from the University of Texas at Austin.
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David Burchfield David Burchfield, PE, CEM is the President of Burch Energy. In this role, David defines Burch Energy’s vision and strategy to promote change at the intersection of healthy and efficient buildings. Focusing on the three pillars that support Burch Energy: energy efficiency, design/build, and software development, David helps maintain the company’s growth direction: following the path to an inclusive clean energy future. David believes in servant leadership and is honored to be building a team of exceptional people. David has performed 100+ energy audits with partners such as: Energy Trust of Oregon, Oregon Department of Energy, Eversource, Nyserda and other utility programs across the nation.
Teshome Jiru Teshome Jiru, PhD, CEM is passionate about applying his 15 years of academic and industry experience to amplify energy efficiency and renewable energy as forces for sustainable socio-economic development. Teshome is responsible for establishing and overseeing the Burch Energy’s strategic technical needs. He is responsible for technical QA/QC for all projects and helps in planning the company’s strategic direction, development and future growth. As program director for the BS/MS Renewable Energy Engineering program at Oregon Tech, Teshome developed and taught courses in Energy-Efficient Building Design, Commercial and Industrial Energy Efficiency, Solar-Thermal Energy Systems, Fundamental Thermo-Fluids, and Energy Engineering. He was responsible for curriculum coordination, recruiting, admission, student advising coordination, program graduation petitions, and industry advisory board (IAB) coordination. He was involved as a PI, Co-PI, and keypersonnel on successful collaborative research grant proposals in energy efficiency and renewable energy and applied thermo-fluids.
Jason Stenson Jason is a Senior Research Assistant based in the Portland Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory and conducts field and lab work in support of a diverse range of research studies and consulting projects. He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Marquette University, received an MArch from the University of Oregon and has been with ESBL since 2005. Prior to joining the lab, Jason worked as an Engineering Technician, testing construction materials and building products as well as inspecting their installation. While at ESBL he has contributed to over 100 design assistance reports to architects and engineers primarily concerning energy efficiency strategies such as daylighting and natural ventilation. Jason has worked on the design, specification and fabrication of field monitoring stations and laboratory research instruments including the ESBL Climate Chamber. Recent monitoring campaigns have expanded the integration of multiple continuous direct measurement sensors with time-integrated sample collection and timestamped occupant feedback via smartphone application for the combined characterization of indoor microbial community, indoor air chemistry, HVAC system operation and energy use, along with occupant thermal, vibrational and acoustic comfort.