Lunch and Learn
COVID-19 Buidlings Health and Energy
Target Audience: |
Engineers, Architects, & Simulationists
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Date and Time: |
July 29, 2020 – Noon to 1:00 p.m. MT
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Location: |
Zoom Webinar
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Registration: |
WEBINAR Presentation Click Here
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Description:
COVID19 has immediately impacted building design and operation and the results will transform architecture, commissioning, and building operation practices for decades to come. It is also shifting the conversations and priorities around human health, energy efficiency, and non-energy benefits. Dr. Van Den Wymelenberg is an expert in indoor air quality and directs the University of Oregon Biology and the Built Environment (BioBE) Center that has been studying the indoor microbiome with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He will contextualize the current pandemic with regard to historic changes to architectural design following previous pandemics, summarize a decade of discovery about the indoor microbiome (including information about fungi, bacteria, and viruses), present results from testing buildings for the novel coronavirus over the last four months. He will provide insights into how to reopen and operate buildings to support human health as we move forward through and beyond COVID19, and facilitate a discussion about the balance (conflicts and synergies) between health and energy in buildings.
Bio:
Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg