Armstrong World Industries Announces Strategic Healthy Buildings Partnership with 9 Foundations
28 Oktober 2021 - 2:00PM
Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (NYSE: AWI) today announced it has
commenced a partnership with 9 Foundations, Inc. (9F), an
independent scientific advisory firm founded by Dr. Joseph G.
Allen, associate professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health, director of Harvard’s Healthy Buildings Program, and
co-author of the book Healthy Buildings. The team at 9F consists of
leading scientific experts on the connections between human health
and built environments, bringing unmatched technical knowledge and
experience to the most critical public health challenges of our
time, including Covid-19. With this partnership, 9F will work with
AWI in its continued focus on manufacturing ceiling and wall
solutions based on the most advanced healthy building science and
design.
AWI CEO Vic Grizzle said, “We are very excited about this
relationship with Dr. Allen and his healthy buildings team at 9F.
Creating healthy indoor environments requires a holistic approach,
and that means actively collaborating across disciplines to solve
the complex problem at hand: making our spaces better for the
health and well-being of people. At AWI, our team includes
chemical, mechanical, electrical, and industrial engineers,
chemists, material scientists and digital designers and
technologists. Joe’s team at 9F includes experts in the fields of
public health, infectious disease transmission and intervention,
worker health and safety, and risk assessment and mitigation. By
working together, we can advance our collective understanding of
what makes a healthy space and develop ceiling and wall solutions
that will make a meaningful difference in protecting people where
we live, work, learn, heal and play.”
Building on a legacy of leading-edge product design and
materials science, AWI currently makes sustainable ceiling and wall
solutions that “clean, contain and protect” by improving key
elements of indoor environmental quality: indoor air quality and
ventilation, acoustics, and natural and supplemental lighting. 9F
will work with AWI to evaluate new health-based technologies and
innovation opportunities that support “The 9 Foundations of a
Healthy Building” – ventilation, air quality, thermal health,
moisture, dusts and pests, safety and security, water quality,
noise, and lighting and views – and will help AWI grow its current
healthy spaces portfolio.
Of the partnership, Dr. Allen said, “The pandemic has given the
public a heightened awareness of how indoor environments influence
our health and well-being. Healthy buildings are the new
expectation, and rightly so. Companies like Armstrong understand
this and want to lead in the global effort to radically change how
we design and build. Together, we can realize our shared goal of
creating indoor environments that optimize our mental and physical
health and performance.”
To learn more, visit armstrongceilings.com and
9foundations.com.
About 9 Foundations, Inc.9 Foundations, Inc.
(9F) provides strategic healthy buildings solutions to companies
across major sectors of the economy, including finance, biotech,
higher education, healthcare, commercial real estate, technology,
and the arts. Its advisory services include best practices for
managing infectious disease risk during COVID-19 and beyond,
forward-looking initiatives to improve the health of indoor
environments, real-time “sick building” investigations and crisis
support, environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of
real estate, and technology evaluation and development. Comprised
of experts in the fields of public health, infectious disease
transmission and intervention, worker health and safety, and risk
assessment and mitigation, 9F is bringing technical excellence to
the global healthy buildings movement.
About Armstrong World IndustriesArmstrong
World Industries, Inc. (AWI) is a leader in the design and
manufacture of innovative commercial and residential ceiling, wall
and suspension system solutions in the Americas. With $937 million
in revenue in 2020, AWI has approximately 2,800 employees and a
manufacturing network of 15 facilities, plus six facilities
dedicated to its WAVE joint venture.
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