E. Woods to Lecture at Kansas State - Nov. 18th

[Guest guest]

November 12, 1999

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY

'Sick' building expert to address K-State engineering community on schools

E. Woods, the founding director of the HP-Woods Research Institute in

Herndon, Va., will be the featured speaker in this year's presentation of

the Fred Rohles Distinguished Speaker Series. Woods will speak at 7: 30

p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, in 135 Ward Hall on the Kansas State University

campus.

Woods will discuss " Measures of Health, Energy and Productivity in Schools. "

The lecture, which is free, is open to the public.

Woods is currently responsible for more than 20 research projects funded by

a variety of industrial and professional organizations to investigate

environmental conditions in office buildings, single family residences,

hospital operating rooms, passenger cabins in commercial aircraft and

laboratory animal facilities.

Results from these studies have been reported in more than 120 technical

papers and six books. They also have led to two patents.

Woods also serves as a consultant to several private and public agencies and

has testified at congressional hearings five times in the last 13 years

regarding the need for research of building environments. He has also been

an expert witness in 21 administrative hearings and various court cases,

including 14 depositions and five jury trials regarding environmental

control, indoor air quality and occupant exposure in buildings.

Woods has been with the HP-Woods Research Institute since May 1997, when he

retired as a professor of building construction from Virginia Polytechnic

Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. Woods came to Virginia Tech

from Honeywell Inc. in Minneapolis, Minn., where he was a senior engineering

manager and senior staff scientist. He was responsible for the technical

direction of indoor air quality diagnostics, which specialized in

investigating problems such as " sick " buildings and building-related

illness. Prior to joining Honeywell, he was on the engineering faculty at

Iowa State University at Ames.

He has a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the

University of New Mexico and a master's in physiological sciences and

doctorate in mechanical engineering from K-State.

The Fred Rohles Distinguished Speaker Series is named for Frederick H.

Rohles Jr., one of the first faculty members to work in K-State's Institute

for Environmental Research. He also directed the institute's activities from

1973 to 1986. The lecture series brings to campus speakers from both

academic and professional fields who are experts in environmental research.

K-State's Institute for Environmental Research, established in 1963, is an

interdisciplinary research center for the study of how people act and

interact in closed environments. It is the only facility of its kind on a

university campus in the United States and only one of three such

university-based institutes in the world.

CONTACT: B. Hayter

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