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Indoor and Built Environment
The COVID-19 pandemic created needs for (a) estimating the existing airborne risk of infection fr... more The COVID-19 pandemic created needs for (a) estimating the existing airborne risk of infection from SARS-CoV-2 in existing facilities and new designs and (b) estimating and comparing the impacts of engineering and behavioural strategies for contextually reducing that risk. This paper presents the development of a web application to meet these needs, the Facility Infection Risk Estimator™, and its underlying Wells–Riley based model. The model specifically estimates (a) the removal efficiencies of various settling, ventilation, filtration and virus inactivation strategies and (b) the associated probability of infection, given the room physical parameters and number of individuals infected present with either influenza or SARS-CoV-2. A review of the underlying calculations and associated literature is provided, along with the model's validation against two documented spreading events. The error between modelled and actual number of additional people infected, normalized by the numb...
Educational Facility Planner, 2012
The COVID-19 pandemic created needs for (a) estimating the existing airborne risk of infection fr... more The COVID-19 pandemic created needs for (a) estimating the existing airborne risk of infection from SARS-CoV-2 in existing facilities and new designs and (b) estimating and comparing the impacts of engineering and behavioural strategies for contextually reducing that risk. This paper presents the development of a web application to meet these needs, the Facility Infection Risk Estimator™, and its underlying Wells–Riley based model. The model specifically estimates (a) the removal efficiencies of various settling, ventilation, filtration and virus inactivation strategies and (b) the associated probability of infection, given the room physical parameters and number of individuals infected present with either influenza or SARS-CoV-2. A review of the underlying calculations and associated literature is provided, along with the model's validation against two documented spreading events. The error between modelled and actual number of additional people infected, normalized by the numb...
People are influenced to behave in an energy efficient and sustainable manner when the physical a... more People are influenced to behave in an energy efficient and sustainable manner when the physical and social/cultural environment they inhabit encourages such behavior. The environments we construct for building occupants must generally meet their varying physical, psychological and social/cultural needs or they’ll figure out a way to meet them on their own, often with negative energy and sustainable repercussions. And any messages crafted to promote desired behavior and decision making must be socially/culturally relevant to be effective – both the message content and means of conveyance. The behavioral sciences can assist in creating, evaluating and maintaining efficiency promoting environments. In particular, anthropology provides methods for collecting the stories of occupants and O&M personnel, understanding human behavior and occupant needs and applying that understanding during programming/planning, design, commissioning and post occupancy evaluations. This paper will present a...
Educational Facility Planner, 2012
Mapping our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Approaches in Anthropology and Prehistory, 2006
Latin American Antiquity, 2000
REPORTS FLAKED STONE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN THE CASAS GRANDES REGION, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO Todd L... more REPORTS FLAKED STONE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN THE CASAS GRANDES REGION, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO Todd L. VanPool, Christine S. VanPool, Rafael Cruz Antillón, Robert D. Leonard, and Marcel J. Harmon This analysis uses flaked stone ...
Indoor and Built Environment
The COVID-19 pandemic created needs for (a) estimating the existing airborne risk of infection fr... more The COVID-19 pandemic created needs for (a) estimating the existing airborne risk of infection from SARS-CoV-2 in existing facilities and new designs and (b) estimating and comparing the impacts of engineering and behavioural strategies for contextually reducing that risk. This paper presents the development of a web application to meet these needs, the Facility Infection Risk Estimator™, and its underlying Wells–Riley based model. The model specifically estimates (a) the removal efficiencies of various settling, ventilation, filtration and virus inactivation strategies and (b) the associated probability of infection, given the room physical parameters and number of individuals infected present with either influenza or SARS-CoV-2. A review of the underlying calculations and associated literature is provided, along with the model's validation against two documented spreading events. The error between modelled and actual number of additional people infected, normalized by the numb...
Educational Facility Planner, 2012
The COVID-19 pandemic created needs for (a) estimating the existing airborne risk of infection fr... more The COVID-19 pandemic created needs for (a) estimating the existing airborne risk of infection from SARS-CoV-2 in existing facilities and new designs and (b) estimating and comparing the impacts of engineering and behavioural strategies for contextually reducing that risk. This paper presents the development of a web application to meet these needs, the Facility Infection Risk Estimator™, and its underlying Wells–Riley based model. The model specifically estimates (a) the removal efficiencies of various settling, ventilation, filtration and virus inactivation strategies and (b) the associated probability of infection, given the room physical parameters and number of individuals infected present with either influenza or SARS-CoV-2. A review of the underlying calculations and associated literature is provided, along with the model's validation against two documented spreading events. The error between modelled and actual number of additional people infected, normalized by the numb...
People are influenced to behave in an energy efficient and sustainable manner when the physical a... more People are influenced to behave in an energy efficient and sustainable manner when the physical and social/cultural environment they inhabit encourages such behavior. The environments we construct for building occupants must generally meet their varying physical, psychological and social/cultural needs or they’ll figure out a way to meet them on their own, often with negative energy and sustainable repercussions. And any messages crafted to promote desired behavior and decision making must be socially/culturally relevant to be effective – both the message content and means of conveyance. The behavioral sciences can assist in creating, evaluating and maintaining efficiency promoting environments. In particular, anthropology provides methods for collecting the stories of occupants and O&M personnel, understanding human behavior and occupant needs and applying that understanding during programming/planning, design, commissioning and post occupancy evaluations. This paper will present a...
Educational Facility Planner, 2012
Mapping our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Approaches in Anthropology and Prehistory, 2006
Latin American Antiquity, 2000
REPORTS FLAKED STONE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN THE CASAS GRANDES REGION, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO Todd L... more REPORTS FLAKED STONE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN THE CASAS GRANDES REGION, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO Todd L. VanPool, Christine S. VanPool, Rafael Cruz Antillón, Robert D. Leonard, and Marcel J. Harmon This analysis uses flaked stone ...