Lau's paper selected by Indoor and Built Environment for Open Access
![Josephine Lau, associate professor of architectural engineering. Josephine Lau, associate professor of architectural engineering.](https://engineering.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/kudos/laukudos.jpg?itok=AmgAJG9g)
Josephine Lau, associate professor of architectural engineering, had a recent paper – "The Facility Infection Risk Estimator™: A web application tool for comparing indoor risk mitigation strategies by estimating airborne transmission risk" – selected by the journal Indoor and Built Environment to be available by Open Access at no cost. The paper presents the development of a web application that meets two needs created during the COVID-19 pandemic - estimating the existing airborne risk of infection from CARS-CoV-2 in existing facilities and new designs, and estimating and comparing the impacts of engineering and behavioral strategies for reducing the risk.