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Aerosol Surveillance: Detection & Prevention of COVID-19

COVID seems like it is here to stay, and as we move into an endemic era, we need reliable and cost-effective solutions to support safe indoor congregation. If air contamination levels can be examined in buildings, we may be able to better control and identify COVID-19...

COVID-19 and the Built Environment

As corporate entities, city, county, state and federal governments around the world take action against the spread of COVID-19, the built environment has been thrust onto center stage with a prominent role. Therefore, the unique expertise of researchers at the...

02/15/2020 Remembering GZ Brown

With the recent passing of one of our dearest members, founders and influencers; we are remembering GZ “Charlie” Brown with high regards knowing how much he impacted architecture and everyone around him throughout his life. Specifically, his time here at the...

Latest Publication from BioBE!

This past January 2020, the publication How Light Exposure Changes Bacterial Communities in Household Dust was published under new discovery at Frontiers for Young Minds. The full article can be read here on their website. Rosenberg, S., Ishaq, S., May, J., and...

Review on health in the built environment

Hot off the press, a new review on health in the built environment is available today!  The article is found here, but an open-access, view-only version is available here.  It's part of the Healthy Building special issue from the Journal of Exposure Science &...

Health in Buildings Roundtable (HiBR)

The webcast on "Making the Human Health Connection: Healthy Buildings, Healthy People and Healthy Communities" on April 23rd was stimulating and informative. Highlights included: Judith Heerwagen's comment that perhaps buildings should be designed more like modern...

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Hidden Dangers in the Air We Breathe

Berkeley Lab researchers work on new building standards after discovering previously unknown indoor air pollutants. "Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) made the discovery that the aggregate health...

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HOPES[19]

Jessica participated in the HOPES[19] Conference at the University of Oregon last week on a panel discussing the "Limits and Opportunities of Design." The panel was comprised of diverse perspectives on building design including experts in sociology, chemistry, and...

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Roller Derby paper out in PeerJ

A new paper led by James Meadow looking at the microbes shared among roller derby teams came out yesterday in the new open access journal PeerJ. There's lots of media coverage going on and a great blog post from the Center's Ashley Bateman. Click here for a list...

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Video Conference on Air Sampling Methods

Several Sloan funded groups working in the built environment had a great video conference session on bioaerosol sampling methods. You can check out the session recording on youtube. Look for another session coming up on surface swabbing methods.

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AutoDesk Project Cyborg in NYTimes

Autodesk's "Project Cyborg" is hoping to make a splash at this week's TED Conference in Long Beach, CA and is featured in a NYTimes article. Project Cyborg is described as "a Web-based software platform for delivering a range of services like molecular modeling and...

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Climate Chamber: Pilot Experiment Sampling

The BioBE Center's newest experiment is working to find out how many and what types of bacteria a single person "sheds" in a few hours, for example, while sitting at your work desk. We had a few folks in the Climate Chamber constructed and operated by ESBL at the...

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