EYP, Institute for Health in the Built Environment Collaborate

EYP, a national leader in sustainability and comprehensive high-impact design, has partnered with the University of Oregon’s Institute for Health in the Built Environment (IHBE) as a founding industry practitioner. With the goal of developing new design concepts for the realization of healthy and sustainable inhabited spaces, the university began forming unconventional collaborations with experts in the building and health industries at other universities and various businesses. These partnerships create unique opportunities to collaborate on research where architecture, biology, medicine, chemistry, and engineering converge.

“We know that healthy, happy workers are more engaged and feel more fulfilled by their careers; and with so much of our time spent inside buildings, it is critical to examine how our surroundings affect our overall health,” said Teresa Rainey, director of high performance design at EYP. “By researching how factors such as thermal comfort, indoor air chemistry, building product chemistry, microbiomes, human perception and building operation influence or alter a space, we can design solutions to create the best building environment.”