Smart buildings for improved air quality, energy saving, carbon capture - Sally R
Talking smart buildings for improved air quality, energy saving and carbon capture with innovative software company CEO Sally R and Matt Morley of Biofilico for the Green & Healthy Places podcast on wellbeing and sustainability in real estate.
Acoustic Comfort in Buildings: Healthy Building Interior Acoustics — Wellness Design Consultants
acoustics are an important consideration in healthy buildings, healthy indoor environments and workplace wellness plans. While every space is different, the primary risks of poor acoustics are diminished attention, productivity (due to inability to concentrate for long periods) and memory retention. Those apply most directly to a learning or work environment while in a residential context there is also the risk of negatively impacting sleep quality.
Healthy building design strategies for nutrition & hydration
Just like adequate sleep and regular movement, nutrition and hydration both play a key role in human health. While there are of course any number of socio-cultural as well as psychological factors at play, the building interiors we spend most time in can play an important role in promoting healthy habits and behaviors. Leading healthy building standard WELL even has an entire section devoted to the subject. So how can we as healthy building consultants positively impact nutrition and hydration for residents, office workers and students? The answer lies in a combination of design and operational strategies.
Ventilation and healthy building design
There has never been a more urgent time to consider an enhanced ventilation strategy as part of a healthy indoor environment. Why does this ventilation matter and what can landlords, developers and workplaces do about it?
Biomimicry and Biophilic Design: Biodesign Insights by Danielle Trofe - Wellness Design Consultants
Talking biodesign, biophilic design & sustainable design with Danielle Trofe, covering the potential of mycelium as a healthy building material, examples of biophilic design that are truly sustainable and biomimicry as a leading light in the new field of biodesign.
What is Indoor Air Quality (IAq) in a healthy building?
indoor air quality / air purification / air ventilation / well building standard / healthy building / wellness interior / air quality monitors (kaiterra)acoustical comfort in healthy buildings & interiors
Human exposure to unfavorable noises and improperly regulated acoustics has a tangible impact on mental wellbeing, concentration and focus. It’s not going to send you to an early grave perhaps but it can create a consistent, low-level anxiety and stress that accumulates over time. In other words, in the world of healthy buildings and wellbeing interiors, we want to implement a strategy upfront in order to minimize acoustic discomfort. Here is how we do it.
Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons
The Parsons Healthy Materials Lab is all about placing health at the center of real estate architecture and design. They aim to raise awareness about toxics in building products and create educational online resources for designers and architects that further that cause.
Healthy workplace wellness nutritional strategies
What insights does natural nutrition offer to help us perform our best in the workplace?
Sustainable Urban Rooftops with UrbanStrong
In this episode of Green & Healthy Places podcast, we discuss trends in rooftop gardens in New York in the wake of Covid lockdowns, the wellbeing benefits of connecting with nature on a rooftop, as well as the economic and environmental benefits of a green roof from a range of different stakeholder perspectives - occupants, developers and city government. We look at green roofs and stormwater management, new legislation pushing for green and solar rooftops on new build projects in NY, the opportunities in rooftop food production.
What is active travel as a healthy building strategy?
The active travel concept is now well established within the healthy buildings movement. Essentially it’s about supporting micro-mobility, and the facilities that such forms of transport to and from a building require from a landlord or developer. ActiveScore Certification is a way to benchmark such facilities globally.
Indoor Air Quality with Kaiterra CEO Liam
Talking Healthy Buildings and Indoor Air Quality with Liam Bates, CEO of Kaiterra
Healthy Materials Advocate - Parsons School of Design
Biofilico’s founder Matt Morley has completed the Parsons School of Design certificate in Healthier Materials & Sustainable Building. So how is the Parsons Healthy Materials Lab ‘making buildings better’? Read on to find out.
Living Walls in biophilic design with UrbanStrong NYC
A conversation with Lily Turner of UrbanStrong NYC for my Green & Healthy Places podcast episode 039 on sustainability and wellbeing in real estate and interiors.
healthy buildings vs sick building syndrome
What are the cognitive health benefits of green healthy buildings?Healthy Building Materials: Life Cycle Assessment for Wellness Design Consultants
Balancing environmental, wellbeing and ethical considerations in selecting a building material is a complex process - here’s how a Life Cycle Assessment can help.Benefits of active design in the workplace
The benefits of active design in the workplace, from standing desks, to gym rooms, active stairwell design and more.
institute of Building biology and sustainability
An interview with Johannes Schmidt, of the Institute of Building Biology + Sustainability IBN, Germany on sustainability, healthy buildings and biophilic design.
Healthy Materials with Matter of Stuff
Materials for a healthy interior with Matter of Stuff in London, UK
multi-sensory wellbeing interiors
How to use light, sound, scent and texture in Biophilic design for wellbeing benefits