As building technologies have improved and new building materials have found their way into construction sites, our homes have certainly become healthier than before... right? Host Kevin O'Connor speaks with professors Jonsara Ruth and Alison Mears, co-founders of the Healthy Materials Lab, a design research lab at Parsons School of Design, about the history of toxic building materials, what we use today that could be harmful to our health, and how we can create healthier built environments.
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Home in a Kit
Materials Around Us
Urban Resilience
“Plyscrapers”
The Perfect Tree?
Life On Mars?
Our Perpetual House Guests
The (Second) Rise of Concrete
The Post-Pandemic Home
Season 2: Premiering May 13, 2021
[Bonus] The Walk-In from America’s Test Kitchen
[Bonus] Introducing the Ask This Old House Podcast
Rebuilding Paradise: Holding onto Home
Construction Waste: A Dumpster Dive
[Bonus] Proof from America’s Test Kitchen
Electricity: What’s Current and What’s Next?
Toilets: Humanity’s Greatest Invention?
Building Science: If These Walls Could Talk
Roofs: Coming Out On Top
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