built environment

Presentation on Climate Action, Respiratory Pandemics and Built Environment

An iiSBE overview of issues related to Climate Action, Respiratory Pandemics and the Built Environment, was recently presented to senior staff of Canada Mortgage and Housing Coropration (CMHC) and the UN-sponsored Global Forum on Human Settlements (GFHS).The same file will be the focus of an international panel that will be held as part of the Beyond 2020 international conference, to be (virtually) held in Gothenburg on 02 November.

Of special interest to iiSBE is that the presenters at GFHS included Serge Salat (Paris), Nils Larsson (Ottawa) and Zhang Guoqiang (Hunan).

Files on Pandemics and Built Environment

Five files are available for downloading, including:

*** NEW *** An Excel file to allow users to make their own assessments of approximate risks associated with personal itineraries, dated 15 October 2020.

* A technical paper on Pandemics and the Built Environment, updated 17 September;

* A PPT presentation based on the above, dated 14 September, and

* A PPT file on Universities in the Covid era, presented to representatives of three major universities in Toronto on 27 August 2020