Healthy Materials: Building for the Future
This panel discussion will address the importance of choosing the right interior finishes that provide a healthy space for building occupants. Learn how the WELL Building Standard helps architects, designers, and building owners in this process. Hear first hand how architects and designers are researching material transparency and what key product certifications one should look for when designing a healthy and well space.
Join the International WELL Building Institute and Rockfon on Thursday, May 20th from 9am - 10am CST. Register below.
Enlai Hooi
Enlai Hooi is an architect and industrial designer with specialization in integrating engineering fields in circular design and architecture. Enlai brings a diverse range of skills to the task of managing complex challenges in the built environment. He is currently Head of Innovation at Schmidt Hammer Larsen, leading their sustainability approach in competitions and co-developing thought leadership with Perkins and Will on the topics of adaptive transformation in architecture, circular building methods, material health and change management through participatory design.
Rodolfo Perez
Rodolfo leads the Materials and Water concepts in the Standard Development team at IWBI. Before joining IWBI, he worked for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, after a career in startups bringing nanoparticle-based technologies from lab experiments to prototypes. He holds MS and PhD degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and undergraduate degrees in Industrial and Chemical Engineering and Aesthetics from the Catholic University of Chile.
Ana Pinto-Alexander
Ana Pinto-Alexander is a Principal and Senior Vice President at HKS. A highly recognized and featured designer, Ana has more than 34 years of experience designing interiors for the country’s most progressive facilities. Her extensive research anchors her belief that the environments where we live, work and play greatly reflect and affect who we are as individuals. Those foundational beliefs were shaped by her childhood in Colombia, South America and enhanced by extensive international travel that influences her unique design perspective.