As healthy building consultants, we combine concern for both physical and mental wellbeing of building occupants with a parallel effort to minimize environmental impact. Healthy building strategies are comparatively small-scale and hyper local, i.e. they are more immediately connected to the activities going on within a specific building or space.
Read MoreSustainable furniture: LifeCycle Analysis / Healthy Materials / low-VOCs
Lighting : Natural light / Window walls and corridors / Soft warm light - relaxation / Blue-white light productivity
Biophilic Design: Stone from a gothic hospital / Birch tree windows / Biophilia - boost mental health
Mental health: wellness design / wellbeing interiors
Read MoreStrategies such as biophilic design, mental health programs, the encouragement of an active lifestyle and the provision of restorative spaces can all be used to increase mental wellbeing for building occupants. In addition, it is helpful to have a designated mental health champion as part of a healthy building concept.
Read MoreWe explore the connections between my world of healthy buildings and interiors, and Charlie’s world of healthy sleep. We discuss sleep hygiene, the physiological impact of sleep on our bodies not to mention our brains, pre-industrial age sleeping habits vs todays, the power nap as a productivity tool, how to create restorative spaces or sleep pods in an office or educational environment that people will actually use, and the role of meditation and restorative deep relaxation practices in improving rest.
Read MoreThis episode of Green & Healthy Places podcast is with Dr Chi-Chi Obuaya of The Soke in London, UK a private mental health clinic that has re-defined the mental wellbeing clinic for an upmarket clientele in the city.
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