{"id":3813,"date":"2016-06-24T11:27:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:36:12","slug":"energy-efficient-housing-interventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/2016\/06\/24\/energy-efficient-housing-interventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Modelling the Effect of Energy-Efficient Housing Interventions on Indoor Environmental Health in Urban Multi-Family Populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Principal Investigator<\/h3>\n\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-basic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-basic has-title post-19795 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/lindsay-underhill\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-basic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-basic\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/ioc\/files\/2024\/12\/1589473851977-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-basic\">Lindsay Underhill<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-basic\">Former Environmental Health Doctoral Student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\n<h3>Co-Principal Investigator<\/h3>\n\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-basic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-basic has-title post-19799 profile type-profile status-publish hentry profile-field-environmental-health profile-field-sph\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/jonathan-levy\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-basic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-basic\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/ioc\/files\/2024\/12\/thumbnail_Jon-Levy-headshot-2024-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-basic\">Jonathan Levy<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-basic\">Chair and Professor of Environmental Health<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\n<p>Environmental Public Health Ph.D. candidate Lindsay Underhill, under the direction of School of Public Health Associate Chair and Professor Jonathan Levy, will develop flexible building simulation prototypes that model the urban multi-family housing stock in Massachusetts. These simulation models will be used to examine seasonal indoor pollutant concentrations and identify energy-efficient and health-protective housing interventions that reduce harmful environmental exposure among urban, multi-family dwellers.<\/p>\n<p>Indoor air quality is a well-established determinant of health, but energy efficiency housing initiatives do not explicitly take health into consideration. Additionally, little is known about the types of energy-efficiency interventions that are health protective, nor the impact of those interventions when accounting for building type, occupant behavior or climate.<\/p>\n<p>Underhill will use the multi-zone airflow and contaminant transport analysis program CONTAM, but develop new templates that represent Massachusetts multifamily housing stock to account for specific nuances and correlated risk factors among the MA multi-family housing population.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers seek to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Characterize the distribution of pollutant exposure in Massachusetts multi-family housing<\/li>\n<li>Identify the differential effect of behavioral (e.g. smoking cessation) and structural (e.g. improved weatherization) housing interventions on pollutant exposure<\/li>\n<li>Predict the indoor environmental impact of housing interventions<\/li>\n<li>Inform future health risk assessments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<a href='https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/research\/seedgrants\/research-in-progress\/' class='button button-primary'>Early Stage Urban Research Awards<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Investigator Co-Principal Investigator Environmental Public Health Ph.D. candidate Lindsay Underhill, under the direction of School of Public Health Associate Chair and Professor Jonathan Levy, will develop flexible building simulation prototypes that model the urban multi-family housing stock in Massachusetts. 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