About this program:

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Our health is our number one resource, yet current federal and state initiatives to improve our built environments tend to focus on regulating energy consumption and averting catastrophic events such system failures and building fires.  How can building owners and managers intelligently manage IAQ to support occupant health and productivity while complying with energy efficiency requirements?

 

This presentation will show you the research and science supporting the relationship between building design, energy efficiency, and occupant health, providing sound evidence for the importance of indoor air quality in homes, schools, and commercial buildings.

 

Active participation from the audience will be requested throughout this eye-opening presentation as Dr. Taylor communicates medical and scientific information in a clear and sometimes humorous fashion.  She will guide you through steps to efficiently manage buildings for occupant health using indoor and outdoor air metrics, and you’ll take away strategies to manage your own surroundings to improve health and productivity.

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You will learn:

 

1. The relationship between indoor air quality and occupant health, as well as understand potential interactions between airborne contaminants

2. How to effectively balance outdoor air ventilation and indoor air recirculation to safely support occupant health

3. Anticipate and prevent harmful IAQ changes during seasonal shifts and outdoor pollution events

4. Develop cost/benefit models using healthy occupant profitability according to building usage

5. Understand why humans resist change and how this resistance has slowed down managing buildings from the perspective of occupant health

 

 

About the Presenter:

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Stephanie Taylor received her MD from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts and for the next several decades practiced pediatric oncology while researching cellular growth control mechanisms.
 

Convinced that buildings have a powerful impact on human physiology, she obtained a Master's Degree in Architecture to  understand the relationship between indoor environments and infections, inflammatory diseases, cognitive impairment, and a multitude of other conditions.
 

Dr. Taylor is the CEO of Building4Health, Inc. a company leading the way in using medical data manage to IAQ from a health perspective, with the goal of truly supporting occupant health.  She is also an active member of ASHRAE and a Distinguished Lecturer, an USGBC Advisory Board member, a senior consultant for TSI Incorporated, a medical advisor for a large network of senior living communities across the US, and an active researcher and author of peer reviewed articles on how the environment shapes human  health and  microbial communities.​

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