Posts Tagged ‘healthy buildings’
Health and Wellbeing: Emerging or Mainstream?
For many professionals working in the built environment, Health and Wellbeing still feel like relatively new buzzwords. In some ways this is surprising given that the subject area has been around for many years; for example, the term “sick building syndrome” was coined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1986. In reality though, the…
Read MoreFitwel: Five ways Fitwel could benefit you and your buildings
Fitwel was introduced in pilot form in 2014 and officially launched in November 2017. Current uptake statistics are impressive: 95 buildings certified; 620 projects registered; 942 users; and, 661 Fitwel ambassadors in over 22 countries.[1] The concept of health and wellbeing has evolved over time and progressively broadened to incorporate a huge number of issues…
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 MoreHealthy and Wealthy! Upcoming Event: How to Improve Health and Wellbeing in Existing Commercial Properties
On Monday 3rd April, EVORA is running an event in partnership with BRE focusing on the health and wellbeing of operational buildings. There has been a lot of attention on health and wellbeing at the design and construction stages, but practical steps need to be considered for our existing building stock. [clickToTweet tweet=”Event: How to…
Read MoreHealthy Buildings In The Information Age
For sustainability as a concept, practice and brand, the digital age has revolutionised the forms and scales of information we are able collect, analyse and compartmentalise about our environments. Technology has made the invisible visible. With popular discussions surrounding health and wellbeing and the WELL Building Standard, technology is already being applied in exciting ways,…
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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