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CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 26, 2019 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 26, 2019 |
| Award Number: | 1931254 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Bruce Hamilton
CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ENG Directorate for Engineering |
| Start Date: | October 1, 2019 |
| End Date: | September 30, 2024 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $168,750.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $168,750.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
660 S MILL AVENUE STE 204 TEMPE AZ US 85281-3670 (480)965-5479 |
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ORSPA Tempe AZ US 85281-6011 |
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| NSF Program(s): |
AccelNet - Accelerating Resear, EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.041 |
ABSTRACT
This AccelNet Catalytic level project will facilitate collaborative research, education, and outreach through an International Network of Networks for Well-being In the Built Environment (IN2WIBE). At the core of IN2WIBE is a shared understanding that well-being is strongly dependent on the links between the built environment and the personal, cultural, economic, and social forces that drive health, productivity, satisfaction, and comfort. Research networks on well-being in the built environment exist, however, they are shaped by their institutional, regional, or social contexts and are mostly locally convergent. Well-being in the built environment is a broad research area, and there exist myriad approaches and solutions that emerge from different disciplinary perspectives. These efforts need to be integrated to foster effective, robust, and widely-applicable solutions. IN2WIBE will connect and educate future building scholars on well-being in buildings while informing better building design, construction, operation, and use. This will be achieved through leveraging resources from 34 existing networks and partners in 5 continents (N. America, Africa, Europe, Australia, and Asia), comprising a total of 17 countries. Through strategically designed activities, IN2WIBE will cultivate and foster connections through the development of community consensus.
IN2WIBE provides an opportunity to unite disciplinarily, culturally, and geographically diverse networks around the world. Four objectives of IN2WIBE are to: 1) facilitate new forms of collaborations by integrating disciplines and networks in building and health fields; 2) engage networks at multiple stages and scales, including networks in South Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East; 3) promote innovative human-centric building design and operation strategies that will benefit the larger community of scholars and practitioners; and 4) prepare next generation building professionals with a diverse background. Led by multidisciplinary teams, IN2WIBE will foster collaborative research opportunities by coordinating the networks through a series of focused, cross-disciplinary global activities, including roundtable discussions, scholarly retreats, industry showcases, hackathons, TEDx talks, design charrettes, and research workshops and conferences with focused themes. IN2WIBE is targeted to benefit users by improving productivity, cognition, convenience, comfort, health, and energy conservation. Ultimately, this network of networks will promote awareness of healthy, resilient, and sustainable environments. IN2WIBE outcomes will be disseminated via peer-reviewed publications and international talks. The IN2WIBE team, led by female PIs, will empower future researchers with knowledge in building engineering and science, information science, social science, and public health through an interdisciplinary educational program that includes a student exchange program and a career development roundtable. IN2WIBE will also leverage various outreach activities to facilitate minority student recruitment and retention and to engage existing K-12 education and community outreaching programs.
The Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program is designed to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations. The AccelNet program supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts. This project is co-funded by the Environmental Sustainability (ENG/CBET) program.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
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PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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An International Network of Networks for Well-being in the Built Environment (IN2WIBE) connects and educates future building scholars on well-being in buildings while informing better building design, construction, operation, and use. We have leveraged resources from 33 existing networks and partners in 5 continents (N. America, Africa, Europe, Australia, and Asia), comprising 17 countries. At the core of IN2WIBE is the shared understanding that well-being is dependent on the links between the built environment and the personal, cultural, and social factors that drive health, productivity, and comfort. The objectives of IN2WIBE are to facilitate collaboration by integrating disciplines and networks in the building and health domains and to produce innovative human-centric building design and operation strategies that will benefit the larger community of scholars and practitioners. IN2WIBE focuses on the built environment’s impact on human well-being, addressing learning, productivity, comfort, and sustainability, supported by well-designed and controlled built environments.
IN2WIBE was carried out during the pandemic, forcing the team to postpone and adapt activities due to both stay-at-home and travel restrictions. We successfully organized 6 workshops and 3 online panel discussions to catalyze the convergence of IN2WIBE with engineers, architects, social and information scientists, and medical researchers through collaborative research, education, and outreach activities. The network enabled researchers from diverse disciplines including-- building science, engineering, data science, health/medicine, and social sciences – to collaborate and gain insights through interdisciplinary activities. The key outcomes from this project are:
1) A journal paper titled “Ten Questions Concerning Occupant Health in Buildings during Normal Operations and the COVID-19 Pandemic” was published by Building and Environment.
2) A journal paper titled “How Work From Home Has Affected the Occupant’s Well-Being in the Residential Built Environment: An International Survey Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic” was published by the ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities in the Special Issue on Well-being in the Built Environment.
3) A journal paper titled “Occupant Health in Buildings: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Opinions of Building Professionals and Implications on Research” was published by the Journal of Building and Environment. (uploaded in the Products section of the report).
4) A special journal issue on Well-being in the Built Environment was organized for the ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities, and was published in November 2021 with four articles.
5) Our presence in the Health Buildings conference in Aachen, Germany further strengthened the U.S. scholar’s connections with European researchers and industry collaborators who are focusing on wellbeing in the built environment. Similarly, we strengthened our connections with Middle Eastern collaborators with our last workshop in Qatar.
6) IN2WIBE is developing an international and equitable network through 6 workshops and other activities, which will connect and educate building scholars and professionals while informing better building design, construction, operation, and use.
7) Activities organized by IN2WIBE have facilitated the interactions among relevant disciplines, i.e., engineering (architectural, civil, environmental, mechanical, computer), architecture, information science, medicine, and public health. A multidisciplinary team is being shaped and converged through the IN2WIBE activities. Through a survey of ~200 participants, we found that the network members submitted 10 collaborative proposals, established 19 new projects, including 4 industry-linked collaborations, and explored 11 new research directions, all catalyzed by IN2WIBE activities.
8) Multiple undergraduate students, graduate student, and postdoctoral research associates were directly involved in this project. IN2WIBE provides students and early career scholars an excellent exposure to both the build science and data science disciplines and cross-institutional collaboration opportunity.
Last Modified: 01/26/2025
Modified by: Teresa Wu
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