Pest Prevention By Design Guidelines
is a new free resource for designing buildings to be resistant to
common pests, such as rats, mice, pigeons and cockroaches. San
Francisco’s Integrated Pest Management Program initiated the project
after initial pesticide use reductions achieved by the program began to
level off. Program participants suspected poor design was a key barrier
to further reductions.
The
resource aims to compile the current body of knowledge about preventing
pest problems through building design and construction. Pest management
professionals, architects, engineers, researchers, educators, green
building experts, IPM consultants and public agency experts contributed.
The final product is now posted at:
The
project was funded by the US Centers for Disease Control, coordinated
by the Center for Environmental Health was contracted to coordinate the
project, and the guidelines were reviewed by the International Code
Council and a national, cross-sector team of experts.