WSU Integrated Design + Construction Laboratory
Our Research Projects
ID+CL focuses on sustainable building practices, collaborating with other universities to create energy-efficient buildings
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Our BUILDING HEROes Podcast
Our podcast series delves into building operations, featuring industry experts discussing maintenance, energy management, and control
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Our Newsletters
Highlights of our research projects and our students’ achievements within the field
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Support our lab for impactful change in the built environment. Organizations interested in supporting the Integrated Design and Construction Laboratory can make a strategic investment, while individuals can contribute through tax-deductible gifts
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Services
Our expertise lies in advancing building energy efficiency through the development and delivery of tenant engagement programs, as well as post-occupancy evaluation research. Specifically, we offer the following services and research opportunities through the lab:
- Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) assessments
- Identify barriers to building performance such as occupant discomfort, lack of training, and building community or cultural factors
- Development, implementation, and analysis of occupant surveys and interviews to:
- understand occupants’ perceptions of energy use and sustainability
- gather useful data to better understand how occupants inhabit their spaces
- Identify barriers to successful occupant engagement
- assess occupant comfort, satisfaction, and indicators of health
- offer suggestions to improve future designs and projects
- Increase energy-efficient behaviors and occupant knowledge of building interactions
- Gamified interfaces to encourage participation in engagement strategies
- Development of associated graphics and campaign materials
- Education at move-in leads to proper use and maintenance of units
- Evaluate the success of new building systems that improve efficiency
- Occupant behavior engagement and training
- Training and site/project-specific onboarding education
- Building operator and professional education
- Implications of building design innovations and technologies on occupants
- Compare building performance goals to occupant actions and behaviors in the building
Research Areas
- Engagement of building occupants, building operators, designers, and contractors through research opportunities, training, and education;
- Engagement of undergraduate & graduate students in research opportunities and scholarly activities through mentorship;
- Dissemination of cutting-edge research to the architecture, interior design, & construction communities;
- Education and resource development for safe and efficient energy management; and
- Facilitation of occupant-centric research in emerging tech, building case studies, innovative training for energy codes, standards, and more!