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ESBL/BioBE welcome new Assistant Professor of Architecture!
ESBL and BioBE are thrilled to announce that Dr. Siobhan "Shevy" Rockcastle has joined the team as a new Assistant Professor of Architecture, and Chair of the Baker Lighting Lab, in the Department of Architecture on the main University of Oregon campus in Eugene. She...
ESBL + BioBE Welcome Mark Fretz as the new Associate Director of Outreach
ESBL and BioBE are thrilled to announce that Mark Fretz has joined the team as the new Associate Director of Outreach, based in Portland at the White Stag Block location. Mark brings a unique combination of experience in architecture and public health service, and...
Amir Nezamdoost – SLL Young Lighter of the Year and Richard Kelley Grant
Amir Nezamdoost, UO Architecture PhD and ESBL graduate research fellow, was selected as a finalist for the prestigious SLL Young Lighter of the Year 2017 competition. Nezamdoost is one of three young researchers shortlisted for the international award - the finalists'...
Festschrift
The Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory is proud to announce the release of Transforming Architecture: A Festchrift in Honor of Professor G.Z. "Charlie" Brown. The German term Festschrift translates as “festival of writing” and celebrates Charlie’s career and the...
HERC Recap: Artist Morgan Maiolie
How do you illustrate the microbiome of bacterial, fungal and viral communities to architects, engineers and building equipment manufacturers? You commission an artist! During the events of Health and Energy Research Consortium, Morgan Maiolie was busy with a brush...
HERC Recap: Daylight Exposure & Microbial Communities Indoors
The microbiome and its relevance to healthy environments was of critical interest at the Health Energy Research Consortium. Ashkaan Fahimipour, presented BioBE's recent investigations in microbial communities and exposure to daylight. Humans spend most of their time...
Greenhouse gas measurement collection
A new comprehensive collection of greenhouse gas measurements was released recently. Read an article on the dataset in The Conversation. The article includes this video of changing carbon dioxide concentrations. .
HERC Recap: TallWood Design Institute
Judith Sheine, University of Oregon Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture, and Iain Macdonald, Associate Director of the TallWood Design Institute, introduced their approach to healthy and efficient mass timber buildings: the TallWood Design...
HERC Recap: Overlit Spaces and Blind Occlusion
One of the key topics discussed at the Health Energy Research Consortium was natural daylight and its relevance to healthy living and working environments. Amir Nezamdoost, UO architecture PhD and ESBL graduate research fellow, presented his current research on...
Dristi Manandhar responds to Nepal Earthquake
Dristi Manandhar is a second-year graduate architecture student at University of Oregon who has been working at the Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory. But her inspiring story goes far beyond her experiences in the classroom. On April 25, 2015, Manandhar was with...