The Built Environment and Mental Health
Global urbanization, combined with evidence of increased prevalence of mental illness in urban environments, highlights a need to investigate potential connections between the built environment and mental health. In fact, one in five Americans have been diagnosed with a mental health disorder in the past year, and, in the United States, the number of suicide deaths are similar to the numbers of deaths due to breast cancer. This webinar will investigate research into the built environmental and impacts to mental health though its effects on connection to nature, personal control, indoor air quality, indoor microbiome, and lighting. It will also discuss our teams work on establishing a comprehensive survey for the built environment occupants that correlates to mental health outcomes, at least in a subset of United States Veterans. Overall, this webinar will highlight the importance of current lessons learned in the field and how practicing architects and engineers can alter the built environment to benefit the mental health of occupants.
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assignments, Lt Col Hoisington has managed over $400M in construction projects and led two flights. He has three short tours and has deployed twice. Currently Lt Col Hoisington is the Tyndall Program Management Office Executive Division Chief, responsible for 25 person team and $2.8B in construction at Tyndall AFB after the devastation left from Hurricane Michael in 2018.
Lt Col Hoisington is now an adjunct associate professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). He taught and directed the master’s program at AFIT for three years. Prior to that assignment, Lt Col Hoisington was an assistant professor for six years at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). His dedication to education and students has been recognized in awards to include the Society of American Military Engineers National Educator of the Year, USAFA Outstanding Academy Educator, and AFIT Department MOAA Military Outstanding Instructor.
