Baker Lighting Lab joins UO’s new Institute of Health in the Built Environment

In the developed world, we spend 90% of our lives and 40% of the total energy we consume in buildings. Decisions we make about how buildings and cities are designed, constructed, and managed have significant implications for our own health and for the health of our planet.

Collaborating with communities, municipalities, and academic and industry partners to make those decisions, the University of Oregon’s new Institute for Health in the Built Environment—which leverages the expertise of three research centers in the College of Design—advances, integrates, and applies new knowledge from diverse scientific disciplines to support a healthy, thriving community and planet. Baker Lighting Lab joins the Energy Studies in Buildings Lab and the Biology in the Built Environment Center as a founding partner in this endeavor.  See the news about this here.

 

Sign up to take Daylighting with Prof. Virginia Cartwright this Spring!

Associate Professor of Architecture, Virginia Cartwright, is teaching an advanced tech. elective on daylighting during spring term, 2018! Open for 20 students, this 3-4 credit course will explore daylighting as an element of architectural design. The course will be offered Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 pm – 7:20 pm. Sign up for Daylighting this spring!

Workshop on Simulating the Circadian Effects of Daylight: Delft, Netherlands on June 4th.

Siobhan Rockcastle of Baker Lighting Lab will join Marilyne Andersen from EPFL, Aicha Diakte and Martine Knoop from TU Berlin, and Jon Sargent from Solemma (developer of Alpha and Diva for Rhino) to present a 3-hour workshop at SimAUD 2018 in Delft, the Netherlands.  If you’d like to learn more about simulating spectral distribution and/or  circadian lighting effects, stay tuned for more information on registration.

To learn more about SimAUD workshops, please visit the website here.