Posts Tagged ‘built environment’
Net Zero and Urban Sustainability: The future really is green
This blog is part of our Net Zero series for World Green Building Week 2017 – read more here. I’ve taken the name “World Green Building Week” a little more literally than most. All too often our urban spaces are at odds with the natural environment; masses of steel and concrete trying to control and…
Read MoreHealthy Buildings Are Here to Stay
This post is authored by Dr. Paul Toyne, and it originally appeared on the Building4Change website. It has been reposted here with permission. Good engagement, a strong business case backed up by data and a sense of shared responsibility were all on show at the Healthy Buildings conferences, suggesting health and wellbeing is not just…
Read MoreHealth and Wellbeing – The Next ‘Sustainability’?
As a society, more and more of us are adopting city lifestyles and increasingly spending a greater proportion of our time inside (an estimated 90% of our day inside buildings), without thinking too much about how we interact with those buildings and vice-versa. Along comes the concept of ‘health and wellbeing.’ A phrase that initially…
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