Webinar: Healthy Building Design

Presentation Description:

This webinar will focus on some design challenges designers will face when specifying interior floor and wall finishes in post-pandemic spaces. The presenter will explore how buildings impact the people inside them by reviewing factors in the built environment that influence human health and well-being. Research done by leading academic organizations with regards to the source and behavior of microbes, bacteria, and viruses will be reviewed. Special attention will be directed to the role different types of surfaces play in infection control and what makes some floors and walls more hygienic than others. Lastly, the notion that healthy buildings only belong in healthcare will be dismissed, setting new expectations about the buildings where we live, learn, and work.

Presenter:

Susan Drew

Market Segment Manager, Senior Living and Behavioral Mental Health

Altro Americas

www.altrofloors.com

Presenter bio:

Susan Drew is the Market Segment Manager, Senior Living and Residential Healthcare for Altro Americas. With over 15 years’ experience in the flooring and walling industry and a marketing background, Susan brings a wealth of knowledge to the unique challenges of the Residential Healthcare/Senior Living Care Environment. In the past 5 years, she has traveled across North America speaking to the A&D community discussing how the built environment can benefit our most vulnerable populations.

This webinar accounts for one IDCEC approved HSW hour. Participants will receive their certificates of completion via email following the webinar and will need to self report their hours.

This webinar will be offered in English.