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?
Benefits of Biophilic Design in Schools: From Nurseries to Universities — Wellness Design Consultants
Nurseries, schools and universities can leverage healthy building strategies to facilitate learning - here we cover the role of biophilic design, healthy materials, indoor air quality, light and restorative spaces
mental Health benefits of biophilic indoor environment in virtual reality - harvard research study
A review of the Harvard study into mental wellbeing benefits of exposure to biophilic environments in a virtual reality setting and their relevance for biophilic design consultants working one office - workplace - coworking interiors
8 Early Signs Of Addiction That You Might Be Ignoring
8 Early Signs Of Addiction That You Might Be Ignoring
Best examples biophilic design research — biofilico wellness interiors
Best examples of biophilic design research studies as selected by the Biofilico team of sustainable design and healthy building experts.
Biophilia Benefits: Combining Biophilia and Fitness for Green Exercise
A review of the benefits of combining biophilia (nature exposure) and fitness, a concept known as “green exercise” that can leverage biophilic design for added mental wellness benefits
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.
Biophilic design for student mental wellbeing
By creating healthy, green and positive spaces for studying, working, recharging, sleeping and even exercising biophilic design can harness some of the goodness of the outside world for the mental wellbeing of students at university.
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.
Circular Interior Design: Soma Studio Milano — Wellness Design Consultants
We talk about the key principles of this new interior design concept, the product categories in real estate and interiors that are excelling in circular design terms, take-back programs for used furniture, surfaces made of bio materials, waste as a design flaw, the importance of collaboration between brands, how nature offers guidance for circular designers, the endless potential of mycelium to replace plastic in future, the Eco wellbeing interior trend in homes as well as the role of biophilic design within circular economy.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.