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Climate Change / COVID-19 / Pandemic Safe Buildings February 3, 2021
READ MOREPandemic Safe Buildings Pandemic Safe Buildings by Lorien Pratt Powered by Brown university says that schools can experience close to zero infection rates, despite local community spread From globalepidemics.org – December 19, 2020 1:44 PM “Evidence gathered this fall around the world and in the U.S. suggests that schools can open, even in conditions of […]
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Behavioral Economics / Behavioral psychology / Building construction / Cognitive science / Complex Systems / COVID-19 / Data science / Decision Analysis / Decision intelligence / Government / Introduction / Risk Analysis / Simulation / Wicked Problems January 20, 2021
READ MORERight now, getting vaccines “into arms” is the world’s greatest pandemic focus. But everything could change. Says Andy Slavitt, “The headlines we see today…[describe a] massive over-demand and under-supply [of the COVID19 vaccine]…it could easily flip…we could have a massive oversupply, and we have more vaccines than people could possibly need, and now we’re trying […]
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Building construction / Building design / Climate Change / COVID-19 / Pandemic Safe Buildings December 31, 2020
READ MOREI have explained that we can do much better than one-size-fits-all thinking as we work to make buildings more safe from climate change, and my previous post introduced a first concept to get past this limitation, which is to move beyond averages. This post dives deeper, into non-linear relationships and critical thresholds. These two effects […]
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Building construction / Causal modeling / Climate Change / Complex Systems / Facilities Management / Government / Pandemic Safe Buildings / Unintended consequences December 25, 2020
READ MOREIn my previous post, I explained how we can move from “one size fits all” thinking to solutions that help us design buildings, where we spend 90% of our time, to keep us safer and healthier in a world that, due to increasing pandemics and climate change, is unlike any we’ve experienced before. Here, I’ll […]
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Building construction / Building design / Climate Change / COVID-19 / Facilities Management / Pandemic Safe Buildings / Wicked Problems December 25, 2020
READ MOREThe increasing frequency and severity of pandemic and climate events represent new challenges to keeping buildings, particularly older buildings, safe for their inhabitants and visitors. The good news is that modern data-centric technology can help us to cost-effectively make a big difference, if we move beyond one-size-fits-all understanding of buildings, as we design, build, and […]
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Behavioral psychology / COVID-19 / Decision intelligence / Guest Post / Introduction December 10, 2020
READ MOREI was watching last weekend’s anti-mask, anti-vaccination protests in Edinburgh with utter horror and asking myself, how can rational human beings really hold these views, clearly not backed by either history or science? And believe them to the extend they would decide to take part in a mass protest event? In a great article by Maria Angel Ferrero on Medium.com citing […]
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Aerosolized particles / COVID-19 / Pandemic Safe Buildings December 10, 2020
READ MOREHumans excel at causal reasoning, however our “neurological machinery” has limitations, especially when trying to make decisions in situations of elevated risk, complexity, and uncertainty: in these circumstances we resort to biases and heuristics, for example we can see the “follow the leader” approach (aka prestige bias or social desirability bias) to decisions being made […]
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Aerosolized particles / COVID-19 / Pandemic Safe Buildings / Simulation December 10, 2020
READ MOREOne of the reasons the Coronavirus spreads with such merciless vengeance is that it is transmitted through the air. If you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time you might become infected simply by breathing. Knowing where concentrations of the Coronavirus may be lurking unseen in the air and avoiding those places may help […]
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READ MOREAcross the world, we’ve empowered a select few policy makers and organizational leaders to make COVID19 safety decisions for us. To the extent that we follow their guidance – in going to a restaurant, wearing a mask, keeping our distance – our lives, and those of our loved ones, are in their hands. If you […]
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Behavioral psychology / Complex Systems / COVID-19 / Decision intelligence / Decison model elements / Dependencies / Externals / Levers / Machine Learning / Outcomes July 29, 2020
READ MOREIn Part 2 of this article, I described why it’s particularly challenging for people to take the right actions in the face of the coronavirus. Now I’ll show you the solution. The solution “…The big entity that isn’t in the room that would help to quench a pandemic is technology…” — Tara O’Toole, CEO, In-Q-Tel […]
