Why Ceilings Offer Clean-Air Solutions for a Post-COVID World

Editor's note: this podcast episode originally appeared on the Gensler Design Exchange podcast. This episode is the first in a three-part series co-hosted with Armstrong World Industries that examines how our organizations are reimagining buildings, spaces, and products to enhance health and well-being in our return to the office and shared spaces.

As architects and designers meticulously work to transform our workplaces, retail, restaurants, schools, and virtually all places where humans connect in a post-COVID world, each space element has taken on a new sense of purpose and intentionality. Ceilings are certainly no exception. In fact, as the attention on air quality becomes paramount in creating spaces where occupants feel healthy, comfortable, and safe, ceilings will play a vital role.

In a recent Gensler Design Exchange podcast episode moderated by Gensler Global Workplace Research Leader Janet Pogue McLaurin, Gensler Design Realization Leader Don Ghent and Vic Grizzle, CEO of Armstrong World Industries, discuss how ceilings are an important part of the