Collaboratively leading research and community outreach to guide business planning for a multicultural community center In 2018, when the Fort Collins Urban Renewal Authority (URA) identified a need to gather community input to inform the use of URA funds in its North...
Leading community-engaged research to make sense of regional wellbeing and inform community priorities IBE worked with the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and CSU’s Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRISS) to create the 2024 Northern Colorado...
Click to download whitepaper Our homes are the heart of our communities and the hubs of our lives. Studies have shown that adults in the U.S. spend approximately 90% of their time indoors, much of that at home, with more than 30% of working adults working from home...
In 2019, IBE conducted a three-year research study on Lakehouse, the first residential project in Colorado to achieve WELL Certification at the Gold level under the WELL Building Standard v1. The study’s purpose was to assess the impact of Lakehouse’s sustainable,...
The idea for ARPA-C, a climate focused cousin to other large federally funded research agencies like DARPA for defense and ARPA-E for Energy, was conceived of by a team at CSU as a transdisciplinary institution for radical climate research and intervention....
Climate action has spurred a recent uptick in city ordinances and voluntary challenges targeted at reducing energy consumption. Cities are increasingly engaging multifamily properties in energy conservation, focusing on efficient building systems (e.g., HVAC,...
