Podcasts about well building standard

In this episode of Better Buildings for Humans, host Joe Menchefski sits down with Nathan Stadola, Chief Engineer at the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), to unravel the mystery behind one of the world's fastest-growing building certifications: WELL. Nathan, a former street accordionist turned wellness standards pioneer, brings his vibrant energy and deep technical knowledge to a rapid-fire breakdown of the 10 core concepts behind WELL V2—from air quality to community connection.Together, Joe and Nathan dive into what truly makes a building healthy, how WELL differs from other certifications, and why verification matters more than ever. They even explore whether the standard favors urban spaces and how buildings can adapt in rural or suburban contexts. If you've ever wondered how to design spaces that don't just look good but feel good, this episode is your blueprint.More About Nathan StodolaNathan Stodola leads the standard development team and serves as Chief Engineer at the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI). In this role, he maintains, enhances, and expands the strategies in the WELL Building Standard to promote health and well-being, with a particular focus on air quality, thermal comfort, and sound. Prior to working at IWBI, Nathan worked at the University Transportation Research Council at City College, where he helped the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council create regional transportation plans. Nathan holds Master of Science degrees in mechanical engineering (Columbia University) and transportation engineering (City College). In his spare time, he enjoys playing accordion and finding new bike routes in the greater New York City area.CONTACT:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-stodola-b5948a9/https://resources.wellcertified.com/people/staff/nathan-stodola/Where To Find Us:https://bbfhpod.advancedglazings.com/www.advancedglazings.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/better-buildings-for-humans-podcastwww.linkedin.com/in/advanced-glazings-ltd-848b4625https://twitter.com/bbfhpodhttps://twitter.com/Solera_Daylighthttps://www.instagram.com/bbfhpod/https://www.instagram.com/advancedglazingsltdhttps://www.facebook.com/AdvancedGlazingsltd

Does your home contribute to your health or to your allergies, illness or discomfort? In this episode, Linda Kafka, a Well Accredited Professional, introduces us to the Well Building Standard and helps us understand how to make choices supporting wellness.

  Jeff Hochberg is credentialed as a WELL AP, LEED GA, ActiveScore AP and Fitwel Ambassador, and has spent over 35 years in the fields of healthy building and wellness and population health management, serving in leadership roles within the corporate, hospital, health plan, public not-for-profit and consulting sectors.   Along with Jeff's WELL AP credential, which signifies knowledge in human health and wellness in the built environment and specialization in the WELL Building Standard, Jeff is a member of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) WELL Faculty.   Jeff is a Fellow of the former Association for Worksite Health Promotion (AWHP), is passionate about building healthy, livable, and sustainable communities, and working to integrate total person wellness into the built environment.   Show Highlights   Sustainable buildings and well-building initiatives, underlining the importance of employee health in corporate environments. Exploring the role of analyzing health trends in organizations. Emphasizing the importance of a value proposition in sustainability for companies and mandates Initiatives with the International Wealth Building Institute focusing on integrating sustainability education in various disciplines. Collaborative program focusing on practical application of wellness concepts. Outlining steps to achieve the healthiest building and various certification credentials. Jeff highlights the need to align with organizational goals for successful implementation, ESG investments, and mental health impacts.  Importance of well-building standards and certifications in the industry. Approaches to sitting down with prospective clients aim to alleviate feelings of being overwhelmed while also establishing clear expectations.   “My mentors were really great in helping me take that passion, as you described, and say, ‘Okay, but you've got to put good business sense behind it. You have to put a value proposition behind this.' That's what speaks to companies. Nobody disagrees that Wellness is a good thing, but somebody's got to make a decision to spend some money on it.” -Jeff Hochber      Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES   GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!   If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on .  We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the !   Copyright © 2024 GBES  

  Brittany Storm, LEED Fellow, Brittany Storm is a LEED Fellow with LEED AP specialties in BD+C and ID+C. She is also WELL AP, FItwel Ambassador, as well as USGBC and IWBI Faculty   She has extensive experience in the sustainable building industry and over 15 years of experience working on projects seeking various green building certifications including LEED, the WELL Building Standard, and the Living Building Challenge. Her professional background allows her to speak to audiences about both big picture and technical aspects of a green building project. Recognized as a thought leader, Brittany has a depth and breadth of technical expertise in the areas of healthy, sustainable construction materials, green building standards and rating systems, and sustainable manufacturing.   Brittany has directed numerous projects and managed the development of sustainability guidelines for a wide range of industry associations and green building standards. Brittany has consulted on more than 150 buildings with experience working with many different building types, including office buildings, tenant spaces, hotels, retail, warehouse and distribution centers, multifamily properties and public order and safety buildings. Brittany has also developed 2 LEED volume prototypes and has certified many LEED volume projects, representing over 2 million square feet and counting.    In her role as a sustainable building consultant, she advocates for healthy, sustainable building materials and construction practices. As a sustainable consultant to manufacturers, Brittany influences the identification and implementation of sustainable alternatives to manufacturers' products and processes. She advocates including manufacturers as part of the project team in order to select products that best meet the project's budget, performance, aesthetic, and sustainability needs.    Using her background in construction, Brittany offers a technical approach to problem solving and finding the best product(s) for each project team's sustainability goals. From advocating for healthy materials to developing critical industry content for healthy materials, she exemplifies leadership in transforming the design and construction industry.    She is active on many sustainability committees including LEED's Materials and Resources (MR) Technical Advisory Group (TAG), mindful MATERIALS, and several industry trade associations.   Show Highlights   Manufacturer engagement needs to evolve to create a better understanding of what goes into their products, how their products impact human health and the environment. Brittany's shares how to help develop your career and the many sides of sustainability.  Proactive wellness is much more than green cleaning and the air quality.  Florida Green Building Coalition certification similar to LEED. A prototype to simplify and streamline the LEED certification process to address the actual volume of projects and client's needs. Shift the demands and responsibility away from architects and contractors to educate clients on decarbonization. Avoid panic mode thinking to achieve LEED certification in the initial planning stages.  Design a healthy space by selecting building materials that impact wellbeing, ecosystems, environments that are diverse, equitable, and cohesive. “I do encourage project teams to work with manufacturers. Don't just ask them for their sustainability information. Educate them, explain your green goals, then let them help you select the best product that makes the most gains for your sustainability project…I strongly believe that green building standards need to do a better job of educating and/or keeping manufacturers informed of what's being asked of them so that they can keep up with the growing demand for sustainable products.” -Brittany Storm   Show Resource and Information L Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES   GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!   If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on .  We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the !   Copyright © 2023 GBES  

Over the past 40 years, Despina has consistently pioneered the science of evaluating employee priorities and evolving trends of office users. This has led to innovation and implementation of transformative workplace environments for global corporates such as: Accenture, Barclays, BBC, BP, Cisco, Deutsche Bank, GSK, Google, HSBC, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley & Unilever and substantial improvements in the design of exemplary real estate developments for investors worldwide. In her role at Cushman & Wakefield, she inputs across the firm's global business, on the rapidly-changing context of work and its impact on employee engagement, productivity, wellbeing and the future role & purpose of the office. With these factors increasingly determining the real estate decisions of leading corporations, Despina's unrivalled insight on the future of work benefits occupiers, developers and investors – through repositioning commercial real estate to drive top line performance, cultural aspirations, ESG commitments & profitability. She is the current President of the British Council of Offices (BCO) and the host of the upcoming ‘Purpose of Place' podcast. She regularly lectures, writes and contributes to media, research and publications on the future of the workplace and serves on various advisory boards including Delos™, the founders of the WELL Building Standard.

The primary goal of the WELL Building Standard is to prioritize the health and well-being of occupants. By incorporating features that enhance indoor air quality, lighting, acoustics, and ergonomic design, buildings can create environments that support physical and mental health, productivity, and overall comfort.This podcast replay with guest Chip Desmone, CEO of Desmone Architects is the epitome of WELL Building which is expressed through his business practices, WELL Gold Certified Building , and commitment to the WELL Building process.  Original Content:WELL Building. What is it? How does it differ from Lead building and is this the wave of the construction future? These questions and many more are answered by Chip Desmone, CEO of Desmone Architects.Desmone and his team of architects designed the first WELL Gold Certified Building in Pittsburgh, PA. They are one of just six WELL certified spaces in Pennsylvania.Listen and learn how WELL intersects design with human health. Desmone shares his journey through WELL certification and the continued commitment, and dedication it takes to maintain this certification status. Desmone comments that their “accidental brilliance” has led them to have a healthy, productive workspace environment focused on their employee's mental health, fitness, and positive workplace culture.

Robert Soler is the VP of Biological Research and Technology at BIOS. Prior to his work with BIOS, his most prominent work was with the Kennedy Space Center, where he helped design and build the first LED light for use on the International Space Station (ISS) and collaborated with scientists to use LED light for photo biological purposes in space, including the circadian lighting system designed to synchronize circadian rhythms of astronauts aboard ISS. He holds a Master of Science degree from the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has begun a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego. Robert owns over 70 patents in lighting technology, and continues to research new applications for lighting. Robert was recently featured in LEDs Magazine 40 Under 40, honoring the best and the brightest across LED and SSL. He is also an Advisor for The WELL Building Standard, the leading tool for advancing health and well-being in buildings globally. SKYVIEW Light - 20% OFF with code 'Redefined20' LinkedIn

This week we welcome back Jie Zhao, PhD - Head of Delos Labs and VP at Delos for a show on keeping our buildings and homes a safe oasis. With heat extremes, wildfires, hurricanes, heavy rains, train derailments, ozone action days and other atypical environmental hazards becoming more frequent it's important that our buildings be prepared to provide a safe oasis. Dr. Zhao is the Head of Delos Labs and an Executive Vice President at Delos. Delos is a wellness, real estate and technology company headquartered in New York City. As the creator of the WELL Building Standard, Delos develops products, programs and solutions that transform our environments into vehicles for health, well-being, performance, and resilience. Jie leads the research team to support product innovations and market strategies. He is also a lecturer in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on Human-building Interactions, including total building performance, occupant behavior in buildings, sensing and controls in buildings, health, comfort, and productivity of building occupants, as well as building energy efficiency and sustainability. Jie received his PhD in Building Performance and Diagnostics from Carnegie Mellon University.

  Paige Tisdale is currently the vice president for the IFMA, Portland Oregon and Southwest Washington chapter. Paige also is in a Business Development role for Dennis' 7 Dees Landscaping. She has a greater affinity for plants than those around her. She learned (and now teaches) the benefits that plants give to us Mentally, Emotionally, Physically, and Subconsciously. These multiple angles have grown her passion for enhancing our environments indoors and out through moss art, living walls, green roofs, and more.    Office spaces need to attract and retain top talent, help mental health issues, and make people feel awesome. She works with designers, architects, and facilities teams to help bring nature into the office. She is an Ambassador for plants everywhere, and will continue to share in whatever way people will listen.   Paige loves interacting with and helping others. She loves building long lasting and meaningful relationships, and has proved that honesty and transparency go a long way in forging these connections.   Getting to share her passion and see other people enjoy the end results of her work, grow relationships, and become a trusted partner, rather than ‘just another supplier' is very important to her.  Show Highlights Tips encouraging sustainability by incorporating greenery in design for all commercial services with varying environments.  Paige's company can help develop and design for all commercial services and multi-tenant buildings to increase aesthetic and knowledge. The Oregon State Treasury Building is one of the first buildings of its kind in the nation as a resiliency building that will withstand any disaster. Understanding the benefits and difference in designing with moss art walls vs Living Wall in Biophilic design. Benefits of IFMA, the facility manager's trade organization. Green Plants For Green Buildings is a national organization trying to bridge the gap between architects, designers and interior landscapers.  Research and education on why greenery is important for our wellness in our built environment. CEU courses to support your credentials. Connection to Bioflu design, Fitwell, the Well Building Standard and the Living Building Challenge. Tips for how architects can coordinate and collaborate with interior landscapers to select products and materials that support the foundation and design of  buildings. Help companies with their brand image by creating better wellness rooms or lounge spaces to increase productivity.   “We saw a huge influx of people wanting to redecorate office spaces. A lot of companies want to adjust their offices to draw more employees back. You want that extra reason to go to work instead of staying at home where you're comfy and you can walk your dog at lunchtime and do whatever you want. Bringing people back to offices means you have to create a cooler workspace.” -Paige Tisdale  Get the episode transcript here!!   Show Resource and Information NY Times article: A Super Building for Fragile Times Sarah J Maas: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series | Green Plants for Green Buildings CEU Courses: Book a CEU Presentation |  Dennis' 7 Dees Instagram  Linkedin Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!   If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes.  We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast!   Copyright © 2023 GBES

This week we welcome Jie Zhao, PhD VP at Delos Labs for a show on how modern buildings are integrating IEQ controls, lighting, acoustics and more to make work environments healthy and high performing. Dr. Zhao is the Head of Delos Labs and an Executive Vice President at Delos. Delos is a wellness, real estate and technology company headquartered in New York City. As the creator of the WELL Building Standard, Delos develops products, programs and solutions that transform our environments into vehicles for health, well-being, performance, and resilience. Jie leads the research team to support product innovations and market strategies. He is also a lecturer in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on Human-building Interactions, including total building performance, occupant behavior in buildings, sensing and controls in buildings, health, comfort, and productivity of building occupants, as well as building energy efficiency and sustainability. Jie received his PhD in Building Performance and Diagnostics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Priscille Joseph is the principal designer and founder of LPD Studio, an interior design studio located in Canada's capital, with a focus in biophilic design and wellness. She's a wife, mom, entrepreneur, plant parent, tea lover and podcast host of the Designing Wellness Podcast. Priscille has been working in the field for almost ten years with experience in residential and corporate design. In this episode we discuss topics such as how to connect nature with your design, what the WELL Building Standard is and whether or not spaces should be separated for their different functions.  2:06 Intro into design 9:00 Biophilic Design  18:00 WELL Certification  23:29 Design preferences residential 25:15 quote how we sit in a chair  32:50 AI Technology in Design  38:44 Closing words and advice    For more from Priscille: instagram: @designingwellnesspodcast  www.lpdstudio.ca/podcast

Passive House Podcast cohost Zack Semke interviews architect and Passive House consultant Jose Sosa, Passive House Accelerator's host for the new PHA LIVE! 101 Series. The two discuss Jose's work at Bright Power, his recent move to London, the latest from the Latin American Passive House scene, and Jose's hopes for the new series that launches on Feb 1. Episode 1 of Passive House Accelerator LIVE! 101 Series: https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/event-announcements/10-steps-to-designing-your-first-passive-house-tips-and-tricks-from-an-architect Bright Power: https://www.brightpower.com/  WELL Building Standard: https://standard.wellcertified.com/well  EDGE: https://edgebuildings.com/  Thank you for listening to the Passive House Podcast! To learn more about Passive House and to stay abreast of our latest programming, visit passivehouseaccelerator.com. And please join us at one of our Passive House Accelerator LIVE! zoom gatherings on Wednesdays.

ESG Decoded is a podcast powered by ClimeCo to share updates related to business innovation and sustainability in a clear and actionable manner. Thanks again to Greenbuild, our October Sponsor. Greenbuild hosts the largest annual event for green building professionals worldwide where attendees learn and source solutions to improve resilience, sustainability, and quality of life in our buildings, cities, and communities. Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2022, Greenbuild will take place in San Francisco, CA. Register with promo code DECODED to activate $50 savings on a Learning Package or redeem free expo hall access w/ the Sourcing Package - also works on virtual packages! Visit them at www.GreenbuildExpo.com. In this episode, Amanda Hsieh talks with Colley Hodges, Sustainability Manager at the Houston Zoo. Colley leads one of the greenest zoo-based conservation organizations in the country. He is an architect and accredited professional under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, WELL Building Standard, and Sustainable SITES initiative. Some of his efforts include carbon tracking and reduction, sustainable material selection, resource conservation, waste diversion, indoor air quality improvements, and sustainability education. In 2021, Colley was recognized as a 40 Under 40 honoree by the Houston Business Journal and Building Design + Construction magazine. Listen as Amanda and Colley discuss the Houston Zoo's conservation efforts and their connection to its steadfast mission to save wildlife. Its architectural design ties to animal care and welfare, while its sourcing efforts aim toward shrinking its footprint. Houston Zoo's laser focus on responsible sourcing is fueled by a project comprised of sustainably harvested wood, leading to the elimination of single-use plastics in its restaurants and retail stores. Make sure to subscribe to ESG Decoded on your favorite streaming platforms and our new YouTube Channel so that you're notified of our vodcast episodes! Don't forget to connect with us on our social media channels. Enjoy this episode! Interested in being a guest on the podcast? For consideration and scheduling, please fill out this form. Episode Resource Links Houston Zoo Website: https://www.houstonzoo.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/houstonzoo Twitter: https://twitter.com/houstonzoo

Jennifer Berthelot-Jelovic is a LEED Fellow with extensive experience with IWBI's WELL Building Standard as one of the first Provisional WELL APs, WELL APs, and WELL Faculty in the world. Jen has worked on various WELL Pilots|Projects in almost every typology. Jen is currently overseeing many firsts in WELL, LEED, Net Zero|Carbon Neutral|Net Positive projects in the country and world. Jen also has extensive experience with USGBC's various LEED rating systems.   In her previous roles at Shangri-La; Jen was instrumental in securing the world's 1st LEED Platinum NC certification for an aviation facility, Hangar 25 in Burbank, CA. Hangar 25 was named “Greenest Aviation Facility In the World” and was Net Zero|Net Positive in 2008. Jen also orchestrated the LEED Platinum certification of Citadel Environmental Services under LEED CI. This was the 1st LEED Platinum CI office space in the Tri-City (Glendale/Pasadena/Burbank) area and Net Zero Energy in 2010. One of Jen's most renowned projects is Step Up On Vine, an adaptive reuse Platinum certified LEED Homes Multi-family, permanent supportive housing project for chronically homeless, mentally ill individuals in Hollywood, CA.   Jen was a Peer Reviewer for WELL v1 thru v2, a member of the IWBI Covid-19 and other Respiratory Infections Task Force, and has the unique experience of being a Consultant to both Delos and IWBI. Jen had worked with WELL in various phases on projects globally. Jen's participation in the WELL Portfolio Pilot Program resulted in co-facilitating IWBI's Portfolio Provider Trainings globally. Jen has also been an active member of at least five WELL Advisories. Jen has been a reviewer for USGBC's Greenbuild program multiple times, an item|form reviewer for the WELL AP Exam Maintenance, and a Specs Reviewer for the WELL AP v2 Exam.   Jen has provided tours of hundreds of LEED|WELL registered|certified projects nationally for international and domestic Owners, Developers, Design|Build teams, Consultants, Innovators, Fortune 500 Companies, and more. Jennifer has also provided hundreds of Sustainability|Wellness presentations globally for hundreds of organizations. Jen has been interviewed|published in articles and publications over the past 15 years. Jen is also a content contributor, reviewer and on-screen SME for the WELL Learning Library (WLL); a comprehensive solution for WELL v2 education and survey requirements. Jen has been a 1st through final round Greenbuild education program Reviewer multiple times, a Global Health & Wellness Summit Advisory Board Member and LEED Fellow Evaluation Committee member since receiving the designation. Show Highlights From movie sets to LEED Fellow, Jen's story on how to turn your passion into a successful career and business.  The value of credentials to be an asset in your career, shape your commitment and reflect your work.  WELL's measurable impact on taking care of people in a meaningful way.    A SustainAble Production is the global WELL experts. Their portfolio benchmarking plays to zero and for organizations at scale.  Jen shares partnerships for ESG strategies the market and clients are demanding. The International Well Building Institute has a WELL equity rating coming out that includes what's important holistically for sustainability.  Ideas for the innovators who want to help people move in healthy ways to drive sustainability forward.    “I travel the world teaching WELL, and we even teach it to a lot of our competitors. Again, our dear friends, we want everyone to succeed. We want the movement to succeed. The more people that get it right, the more healthier people we will have in the world living longer, more vibrant lives.” -Jennifer Berthelot-Jelovic   Get the episode transcript here!!   Jennifer Berthelot-Jelovic's Show Resource and Information LinkedIn Instagram A SustainAble Production The Little Prince Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!   If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes.  We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast!   Copyright © 2022 GBES

Tudtad, hogy manapság a legtöbb irodai dolgozó az idejének 90-95%-át épületekben tölti? Éppen ezért korántsem mindegy, hogy ezt az időt milyen környezetben és körülmények között töltjük el nap mint nap. Ráadásul egy olyan irodában, ahol kevés a léttér, nem jók a fényviszonyok, rossz a levegő minősége, a munkavállalók teljesítménye is könnyedén romlásnak indulhat. Legutóbbi adásunkban a Well épületminősítési rendszerről beszéltünk, mely jóval túlmutat minden eddigi Zöld minősítésen. “A Well Building Standard szerinti minősítés az embert helyezi a középpontba. A Well célja, hogy olyan helyeket, tereket hozzuk létre, amik támogatják az egészséget” - mondja a műsor egyik vendége, Kurucz Regina, akkreditált Well tanácsadó, aki az adás másik meghívottjával, Kovács Emesével, az MN6 Energiaügynökség energetikai szakértőjével azt járja körbe, hogy miképpen érhetjük el azt, hogy a mi irodánk is megkapja ezt a minősítést, illetve miért is éri meg ez nekünk. Ha szerinted is itt az ideje annak, hogy Magyarországon is mindenki a lehető legszuperebb, legélhetőbb, az embert előtérbe helyező körülmények között végezhesse a munkáját, és szeretnél naprakész lenni azzal kapcsolatban, hogy ezt miképpen lehet a legegyszerűbben elérni, ez az adás neked szól! SZEKCIÓK: 03:00 - Vendégek bemutatása 04: 34 - Mi az a Well minősítés? 13:02 - Egy bérlő hogy tud well minősítést szerezni? 16:09 - Kinek, és hogyan éri meg a Well? 21:30 - Mik a Well minősítés kritériumai? Mennyi időbe telik ezt megszerezni, és mennyi időre szól? 29:11 - Miben tudnak segíteni egy bérlőnek a Well tanácsadók? 41:44 - A Well épületminősítő rendszer mennyire elterjedt itthon illetve Európában? 43:57 - Milyen előnyei és hátrányai vannak a Wellnek? 51:04 - Mik a legújabb Well minősítések? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A podcast házigazdája Paukovics Gábor, a Kinnarps Üzlet és Szolgáltatás Fejlesztője, az élhető, jól kialakított, produktivitást és jó munkahelyi környezetet támogató irodák szakértője. A Kinnarps Hungary honlapja: https://kinnarps.hu Iratkozz fel az Open Office Podcast adásaira a kedvenc podcast lejátszódban: Spotify: https://cutt.ly/IFhCtrj Apple Podcast: https://cutt.ly/kFhCktB Castbox: https://cutt.ly/JFhCTrG Soundcloud: https://cutt.ly/uFhCSiN Az adások emellett elérhetők további felületeken is, így a Google Podcasts appban és számos más podcast applikációban, sőt már az Open Office YouTube csatornáján video formátumban is. Az Open Office podcast adások menedzsmentjét a BROCASTERZ Podcast Ügynökség csapata végzi. Ha szeretnéd jobban megismerni őket: http://brocasterz.com/

What to do when air is 'bad' James Matthews of Carbon Intelligence on getting indoor air quality right. James is an Associate Director responsible for implementing Carbon Intelligence's Health and Wellbeing service. A qualified WELL Accredited Professional (AP) and Fitwel Ambassador, able to advise how best to implement health and wellbeing strategies to workplaces. James provides consultancy services for landlords, developers and occupiers around sustainability and wellness in the built environment; from integrating sustainability and wellbeing into property management activities to full certification services. He has advised a large organisation to deliver the WELL Building Standard to a 110,000 sq. ft. office refurbishment in Canary Wharf. James has also worked with a developer to deliver the WELL Building Standard for a 95,000 sq. ft. grade A office development in Scotland. Matthews works with Carbon Intelligence's clients to identify opportunities to improve the sustainability performance of managed properties.   Episode transcript: The transcription of this episode is auto generated by a third-party source. While Microshare takes every precaution to insure that the content is accurate, errors can occur. Microshare, Inc.  is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use of this information. Micheal Moran [00:00:00] This is manifest density. Hello, everyone, and welcome to this edition of Manifest Density. Your host, Michael Moran, here to explore the intersection of COVID 19 global business and society. Manifest density is brought to you by the Global Smart Building and ESG data company Microshare unleashed the data today. I'm speaking with James MATTHEWS, who is an associate director at Carbon Intelligence, one of our partners in the UK. And James is an expert in indoor air quality and he has done a lot of work from his days at the University of Exeter. James, give us a little background on yourself. Yeah.    James Matthews [00:00:40] So I'm James MATTHEWS. I working for Carbon Intelligence. I've been prior to that with a young for 6 to 7 years looking at building standards and looking at how that can be implemented into buildings built kind of from a land developer point city into the base build and also from fit out project level work. So it's really interesting space and I'm very kind of keen to talk about it.    Micheal Moran [00:01:07] Well, we are living at a time with change expectations about all sorts of things. One of those things is the wellness and safety of the indoor spaces that they're going to spend a good deal of their time in a workplace is a great example. Obviously, commercial real estate in the office sector especially are eager to see people flowing back in. So are the people who run cities who worry about tax revenue and street level commerce. So we now know that air quality is part of the demand or expectation that some people have if they're going to go back into these offices. What are you seeing in the marketplace in that regard?    James Matthews [00:01:48] So I think my observations would be prior to COVID and the kind of lockdowns that everyone saw around the world, the well being narrative was all around productivity. And with regards to sort of indoor air quality, it was looking at reducing vaccines and the impacts that that can have on people's health. Volatile organic compounds, I should say, but also carbon dioxide levels. So there's been some really interesting research that suggests that proves that if you have CO2 levels that go over 1200 parts per million can have a real impact on your cognitive ability. So anecdotally, that's the equivalent of maybe going out for lunch and having a couple of points. So I've been taught and it's that kind of slowing down of your mental ability and it's it's all around that productivity piece. If you imagine you're in the boardroom and you've got the most important people in your company thrashing out a big deal and they've been in there for hours. The indoor air quality that's going to be poor. Can you be set? Decision making at the end of the meeting are the best decisions they're able to do. That was where wellness was prior to the shift I've seen kind of in the market is is about reassuring people that the space they now choose to operate in is healthy. It is a place that isn't going to do us any harm.    Micheal Moran [00:04:16] Sure. And it could be a doctor's office where they're making decisions that are relevant to your life and death. So obviously, these are not small issues. So I have to ask, as you're in the world and you're seeing the demand for this certainly is there among people who now feel compelled to go back into the office, they kind of want to know. But what what about the purchaser of this kind of a capability, air quality monitoring? Who is that?    James Matthews [00:04:43] So, yeah, I think you can look at this from a landlord developer point of view. If you're developing your next asset wellbeing, it's very much about sort of 10 to 15 years ago where sustainability was. Sustainability used to be a nice to have. Now it's a must have without. Your asset is already going to be behind the curve against its competition. The indoor air quality and wellbeing is very much on the up and is being used as a as a USP. So I have experience with a couple of projects in Glasgow, in Scotland, and there was a project there that we were working on and they specifically targeted the well building standards because a building opposite going up in a similar sort of time that was also targeting the well building standards. So it's very much about kind of creating a premium product in the market.    Micheal Moran [00:05:34] And of course, well, building is going to ultimately have greater value when it's sold and it's probably going to attract a higher rent.    James Matthews [00:05:44] Absolutely. Yeah. There's been there's been some interesting figures coming from from the US that would suggest assets with wellbeing certificates can come on a high premium bit for rent.    Micheal Moran [00:05:56] Hold that thought. We're going to take a quick break to hear from our sponsor.    Sponsor [00:06:01] Manifest density is brought to you by Microshare, a world leader in the technologies they're helping the world return to work safely. Our ever smart suite of smart facility solutions, including indoor air quality monitoring, predictive cleaning and room occupancy solutions, bring safety, wellness, sustainability and operational cost savings to indoor spaces. Learn more at microshare. I. O.    Micheal Moran [00:06:30] Okay. I'm back with James MATTHEWS. Carbon Intelligence. James, as you confer with clients and advise them on things to do. What is the intersection of these various building certifications? Brim and Well and lead and things like air quality? Do they get credit for doing this.    James Matthews [00:06:49] From lead in the in the UK isn't so much of a big thing. The main driver over here is is Brim, which is fairly similar. There is a cross crossover between well and Brim I think for about 33% if memory serves. So if you do some credits within Breeam, you'll achieve them and well and vice versa. So that certainly leads to some efficiencies. It is definitely becoming more and more demand for in the market and we are talking to clients more regularly about implementing such certificates.    Micheal Moran [00:07:25] And so if you let's say you implement indoor air quality monitoring, is it in and of itself useful to know or are there a series of actionable data points you're going to get that take you down a journey to improve air quality?    James Matthews [00:07:42] There are certain metrics because one of them say volatile organic compounds, and that's generally found from paint or off gassing, from new furniture or plastics, things like glues. That's definitely something you can see generally as a spike in new projects where things new new kit and new furniture is brought into a space. You would potentially clear the office of people for potentially up to two weeks, leave it with the air conditioning units and the fan crews running to extract as much of that gas out. And then you would then bring people back into the office. CO2 wise, you can increase the fan speeds, obviously circulate more and more out of the building and that too will improve the interactions.    Micheal Moran [00:08:31] So I would imagine as you take someone through the process of improving the wellness of these indoor spaces, air quality is just one thing. There's a number of different metrics that you might want to correlate, right? See, you know how densely occupied spaces what what the cleaning regimen is. You know, there's all sorts of interesting questions about decibels and lumens. How much of that do you get into and.    James Matthews [00:09:00] Carbon intelligence. We are predominantly focused on indoor air quality, although clients do want to look at implementing the standard, we will walk them through everything that is required of them and the wellbeing standards are quite flexible. So you can pick and choose certain metrics to to it to benefit your, your particular fit out of your building. And that's the benefit of it. It is flexible so you can choose what's kind of interesting to you and then we will walk them through all the different the ten different requirements as a part of the standard.    Micheal Moran [00:09:39] James, hold your thought. I'm going to take a quick break for our sponsor.    Sponsor [00:09:45] Michael sure is proud to support Manifest Density, the podcast that examines the intersection of COVID 19 business and society. Each week we bring you conversation with global leaders and visionary enterprise nurse who are helping the world adapt and apply the tragic lessons of the pandemic so the planet can build back better. Subscribe to Manifest Density on our website microshare. I o or download it on Apple, iTunes, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and a host of other podcasting venues.    Micheal Moran [00:10:23] I'm back with James MATTHEWS of Carbon Intelligence. James is an expert in implementing indoor air quality. JAMES Indoor air quality is one thing from the standpoint of the person who runs the building or owns the building, but what about the people who occupy it? You must get questions about how much of this data should be shared with the staff of a corporate space, for instance, and what kind of issues that might raise.    James Matthews [00:10:53] It's a tricky one, I think. If you are the landlord and you have a problem, you might be inclined not to share that information. If you're a tenant, then you're obviously going to be interested in your indoor air quality. I think the benefit of the market of where we are is that the democracy of data or the ability to access data is relatively cheap and easy these days. People can get hold of that information relatively quickly. If you are a tenant, for example, there are certain monitors that have really good standards that are only a couple of hundred pounds that you could implement. And having that information is key. It's the old adage of you can't you can't change what you don't monitor. And it's getting getting your hands on that data, which is invaluable if you want to make improvements and change into your space.    Micheal Moran [00:11:47] There's still that ethical quandary. Joe, if you're the director of h.r. Or facilities management and you find you've got this data, it's not consistently good. Maybe it's good some days, not others are good in some spaces and not others. Do you democratize that data and show it to all the staff?    James Matthews [00:12:06] Yeah, it's a tricky one. I think you'd probably work with your facilities team and your landlord if you're a tenant or if you are the facilities manager working on behalf of the landlord, then you'd certainly use that data to drive improvements and look at ways to improve the space. I think obviously with people choosing to work from home and choosing to work in the office these days, you'll see a shift in occupation patterns as well. So typically you might see higher levels of been in poor indoor air quality on say, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. If people are choosing to occupy the office more in that time, you could then set about strategies to improve the indoor air quality, potentially running the phone calls at a higher rate on those particular days, and then offset by saving a bit of energy and reducing the phone calls potentially on Wednesdays, sorry, on Mondays and Fridays when you have lower occupation.    Micheal Moran [00:13:07] You bring up a really good point. I think when people think of indoor air quality monitors, they think of something that looks like a smoke detector that just sits there and detects the air. But it's really affected by a lot of things. One of the most important is that the quickest way to get poor air in a room is to put a lot of people in and close the door. Right. Because we do nothing but emit carbon when we breathe. And if you're not, ventilating that occupancy data is key to correlate with the air quality, right?    James Matthews [00:13:38] Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. If you if you can marry the two, you've got a really powerful solution there.    Micheal Moran [00:13:45] Well, we've already taken two breaks for the sponsor, so I won't tell our married solution here. But I think that's the idea. And it's not just occupancy, but there's other things that that affect to temperature, humidity. How often do you run? To concern. I mean, you're working primarily in the UK, so it may be that it may not be as big an issue as it would be in places like Beijing or Mumbai. How often do you run into concern about particulate matter, the outdoor pollution penetrating the indoor space?    James Matthews [00:14:15] There's a lot of concern, I think in the UK this fall, especially in London where you have quite a high traffic density. There's been recent kind of unfortunate examples of where there was a child that died and it was linked back to poor air quality because the school was on a on a highway, on a big busy street. And it was it was proven that the not the sort of poor air quality that cars and trucks and everything that was emitting was was a was the root cause of, unfortunately, this child's death, which is awful. It is a concern. And I think probably pre-pandemic when people were traveling more, there was more concern. I think that I would imagine this is my educated guess is that there's probably slightly less of an issue at the moment with people traveling less. But it's certainly it is an issue. And you do see, especially in London in the summer, you do see a sort of foggy haze sometimes, but there's no winds or anything here.    Micheal Moran [00:15:24] In the United States. This is a I almost said burning issue. That would be a little bit of color. This is a huge issue in the American West where forest fires emit a lot of particulates into the air every year. Now, California, Colorado, where I live, there have been recent fires that made it unsafe to be in your house miles and miles from the actual event. I would imagine this is something we're going to see more of. And then, of course, you have cities like Beijing and Mumbai and industrial cities that burn coal.    James Matthews [00:15:55] It is going to be a fact of life for for the foreseeable future. In Europe we are phasing out diesel in the UK, in Europe we are phasing out diesel engines. I'm not sure if that's happening in the US as well. And there is is a huge increase in EV charging and drivers as well. So the future is getting better and it will slowly phase down. But I think that's a fair way to go here.    Micheal Moran [00:16:19] And we can certainly thank Mr. Putin for keeping the oil pumping, but prices are very attractive for oil producers now, so the incentives don't always work in the direction that we might want for clean air. If you were to want to follow James MATTHEWS in your work and or carbon intelligence into work, what would be the best way to do that?    James Matthews [00:16:41] I would visit carbon. See, that's a web page and you can get more information on everything that we do that and find me on LinkedIn.    Micheal Moran [00:16:50] James MATTHEWS James, I want to thank you again.    James Matthews [00:16:53] Thank you. A real pleasure to speak to you.    Micheal Moran [00:16:55] And that's it for this edition of Manifest Density. Thank you, James MATTHEWS, for being our guest today. I'd like to remind everybody you can learn more about how Microshare is helping get the world safely back to work with our ever smart suite of products, including every smart air and ever smart, clean, smart space and energy management, ESG solutions as well. You can find more about these great solutions at WW share. I hope you can also subscribe to this podcast there or on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Google Play, Spotify and many other platforms. Well, that'll do it for this week on behalf of Microshare and all of its global employees, this is Michael Moran saying So long. Be well. And breathe clean air. 

What to do when air is 'bad' James Matthews of Carbon Intelligence on getting indoor air quality right. James is an Associate Director responsible for implementing Carbon Intelligence's Health and Wellbeing service. A qualified WELL Accredited Professional (AP) and Fitwel Ambassador, able to advise how best to implement health and wellbeing strategies to workplaces. James provides consultancy services for landlords, developers and occupiers around sustainability and wellness in the built environment; from integrating sustainability and wellbeing into property management activities to full certification services. He has advised a large organisation to deliver the WELL Building Standard to a 110,000 sq. ft. office refurbishment in Canary Wharf. James has also worked with a developer to deliver the WELL Building Standard for a 95,000 sq. ft. grade A office development in Scotland. Matthews works with Carbon Intelligence's clients to identify opportunities to improve the sustainability performance of managed properties. Sponsored by Microshare. Listen to our other podcasts on the Manifest Density portal. - Subscribe to DataStream: the Microshare Newsletter - View our LinkedIn page -  Contact Us They can also access the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Tune In, Podcast Addict, Himalaya, Deezer, and on Podbean.   Podacst transcription: The transcription of this episode is auto generated by a third-party source. While Microshare takes every precaution to insure that the content is accurate, errors can occur. Microshare, Inc.  is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use of this information. Michael Moran [00:00:00] This is manifest density. Hello, everyone, and welcome to this edition of Manifest Density. Your host, Michael Moran, here to explore the intersection of COVID 19 global business and society. Manifest density is brought to you by the Global Smart Building and ESG data company Microshare unleashed the data today. I'm speaking with James Mathews, who who is an associate director at Carbon Intelligence, one of our partners in the UK. And James is an expert in indoor air quality. He has in the past been a senior consultant as at you know, he has also been a senior consultant at Avison Young, another big UK advisory firm where he was a sustainability consultant and he has done a lot of work from his days at the University of Exeter to today dealing with clients in the UK. James, give us a little background on yourself and how you come into contact with questions like quality.    James Matthews [00:01:08] Yeah. So I'm James MATTHEWS. I working for Carbon Intelligence. I've been prior to that with a young 6 to 7 years looking at the wellbeing standards, building standards and looking at how that can be implemented into buildings. Bit kind of from a land developer point into the base building and also from fit out project level work. So it's yeah, really interesting space and I'm very kind of keen to talk about it and have a conversation with you.    Michael Moran [00:01:47] Well, we are living at a time, you know, we're not post-pandemic yet, but people are, you know, eager to look beyond and hopefully get past it. But we're living in a world with change expectations about all sorts of things. One of those things is the kind of wellness and safety of the indoor spaces that they're going to spend a good deal of their time in. So a workplace is a great example. Obviously, commercial real estate in the office sector especially are eager to see people flowing back in. So are the people who run cities who worry about tax revenue and street level commerce. So we now know that air quality is part of the demand or expectation that some people have if they're going to go back into these offices. What are you seeing in the marketplace in that regard?    James Matthews [00:02:44] So I think my observations would be prior to COVID and the kind of lockdowns that everyone saw around the world, that well being kind of narrative was all around productivity. And with regards to sort of indoor air quality, it was looking at reducing vaccines and the impacts that that can have on people's health. Volatile organic compounds should say, but also kind of carbon dioxide levels. So there's been some really interesting research that suggests that proves that if you have CO2 levels that go over 1200 parts per million can have a real cognitive impact on your ability, sort of impact on your cognitive ability. So anecdotally, that's the equivalent of maybe going out for lunch and having a couple of pints. So I've been told and it's it's that kind of slowing down of your mental ability and it's it's all around that productivity piece. If you imagine you're in the boardroom and you've got the most important people in your in your company thrashing out a big deal and they've been in there for hours. The indoor air quality is going to be poor. Can you be certain that decisions they're making at the end of the meeting are the best decisions that they are sort of they're able to do, able to perform? And it's it's kind of that that was where wellness was prior to the shift I've seen kind of in the market is. As you say, we're not post COVID, but wherever we are in this sort of return to office stage is about reassuring people that the space they now choose to operate in. Because we've all been working, majority of us been working from home for the last year and a half, two years or so. So it is possible with the space that we now choose to go back into the office is healthy. It is health. It is. It is it is a place that isn't going to do us any harm.    Michael Moran [00:05:01] So give us an idea of the cognitive effects and other effects that that getting CO2 and other things about air quality wrong will have on a space.    James Matthews [00:05:14] And yes, it's been proven that CO2 can have a real impact on your cognitive ability. And anecdotally, that's the equivalent of potentially having to pay a couple of points at lunchtime and then going back into the office. And it's that kind of slowing down and that slightly fuzzy, hazy feeling that you might have. And it's that impact on any decisions that you may then have that. Getting the indoor air quality wrong. Could lead to. Imagine if you've got a boardroom full of executives thrashing out the latest deal and they've been in there for hours. The CO2 levels could be going through the roof. Are they are you confident that they're making the correct decisions based on the indoor air quality? So it does it does have a real, tangible impact on people's performance.    Michael Moran [00:06:05] Sure. And it could be a doctor's office where they're making decisions that are relevant to your life and death. So obviously, these are not small issues. So I have to ask, as you're in the world and you're seeing the demand for this certainly is there among people who now feel compelled to go back into the office, they kind of want to know. But what what about the the kind of purchaser of this kind of a capability, air quality monitoring? Who is that is and what what are the types of people that would buy this? And what different kind of lenses do they view this through?    James Matthews [00:06:42] So, yeah, I think you can look at this from a landlord developer point of view if you're developing your next asset. Wellbeing is very much about sort of ten or 15 years ago where sustainability was. Sustainability used to be a nice to have. Now it's a must have. Without it, your asset is already going to be behind the curve against its competition. The indoor air quality and wellbeing is very much kind of on the up and is is being used as a as a USP. So I have experience with a couple of projects in Glasgow, in Scotland, and there was a project there that we were working on and they specifically targeted the well building standards because a building opposite going up in a similar sort of time that was also targeting the well building standards. So it's very much about kind of creating a premium product in the market. And of course, well, building is going to ultimately have greater value when it's sold than it's probably going to attract a higher rent. Right. Absolutely. Yet there's been there's been some interesting figures coming from from the US that would suggest assets with wellbeing certificates can command a high premium bit for rent.    Michael Moran [00:08:04] Hold that thought. We're going to take a quick break here from our sponsor.    Sponsor [00:08:10] Manifest density is brought to you by Microshare, a world leader in the technologies that are helping the world return to work safely. Our ever smart suite of smart facility solutions, including indoor air quality monitoring, predictive cleaning and room occupancy solutions, bring safety, wellness, sustainability and operational cost savings to indoor spaces. Learn more at microshare. I. O.    Michael Moran [00:08:39] Okay. I'm back with James Mathews Carbon Intelligence. James, as, as you confer with clients and advise them on things to do. What is the kind of intersection of these various building certifications? BREAM And well, lead and things like air quality, do they get credit for doing this? And is there are there certain standards that these these certification programs impose on them?    James Matthews [00:09:07] So from leading the in the UK isn't so much of a big thing. The main driver over here is Prem, which is fairly similar. There is a cross crossover between well and Brim I think for about 33% if memory serves. So if you do some credits within prem, you'll achieve them and well and vice versa. So that certainly leads to some efficiencies. It is definitely becoming more and more demand for in the market and we are talking to clients more and more regularly about implementing such certificates.    Michael Moran [00:09:46] And so if you let's say you implement indoor air quality monitoring. Is it in and of itself useful to know or. Are there a series of actionable? You know, data points, you're going to get that, you know, take you down a journey to improve the air quality.    James Matthews [00:10:11] Yeah, absolutely. So there are certain metrics because one of them said volatile organic compounds, and that's generally found from paint or off gassing, from new furniture or matchsticks, things like blues. And that's definitely something you can you'd see generally as a spike in new projects where things new, new kit and new furniture is brought into a space. You would potentially clear to the office of People for potentially up to two weeks, leave it with the air conditioning units and the fan crews running to extract as much of that gas out. And then you would then bring people back into the office. CO2 wise, you can increase the fan speeds, obviously, and circulate more and more out of the building. And that too will improve the indirect with.    Michael Moran [00:11:09] Have you come across situations where I mean, you know, pre-pandemic we would have called the sick building syndrome where air quality is just one element of something that's going on that leads you kind of to be a detective, try to figure out what's wrong with that.    James Matthews [00:11:27] In all honesty, I haven't had that experience, but I certainly have heard of it, and my experience is delivering it on projects. It's less of the sort of detective work. So I can't really talk to that.    Michael Moran [00:11:48] So I would imagine as you take someone through the process of improving the wellness of these indoor spaces. Air quality is just one thing. There's a number of different metrics that you might want to correlate, right? See, you know how densely occupied spaces is, what what the cleaning regimen is. You know, there's all sorts of interesting questions about decibels and lumens. How much of that do you get into in your day to day?    James Matthews [00:12:24] At Carbon Intelligence, we are predominantly focused on indoor air quality and although clients do want to look at implementing the standard, we will walk them through everything that's required of them and the wellbeing standards are quite flexible. So you can pick and choose metrics to to it to benefit your your particular fit out the building and that's the benefit of it. It's, it is flexible so you can choose what's kind of interesting to you and then we will walk them through all the different, the ten different requirements as a part of the standard.    Michael Moran [00:13:04] James, hold your thought. I'm going to take a quick break for our sponsor.    Sponsor [00:13:09] Microshare is proud to support Manifest Density, the podcast that examines the intersection of COVID 19 business and society. Each week we bring you conversation with global leaders and visionary enterprise nurse who are helping the world adapt and apply the tragic lessons of the pandemic so the planet can build back better. Subscribe to Manifest Density on our website microshare. I o. Or download it on Apple, iTunes, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and a host of other podcasting venues.    Michael Moran [00:13:48] Okay, I'm back with James MATTHEWS of Carbon Intelligence. James is a an expert in implementing indoor air quality, or at least in consulting on that. James Indoor air quality is one thing from the standpoint of the person who runs the building or owns the building, but what about the people who occupy it? How do you you must get questions about how much of this data should be shared with the the staff of a corporate space, for instance, and, you know, what kind of issues that might raise?    James Matthews [00:14:25] It's a tricky one, I think. If you are the landlord and you have a problem, you might be inclined not to share that information. If you're a tenant, then you're obviously going to be interested in your indoor air quality. I think the benefit of the market of where we are is that the democracy of data or the ability to access data is relatively cheap and easy these days so people can get hold of that information relatively quickly. If you are a tenant, for example, there are certain monitors that have really good standards that are only a couple of hundred pounds that you could implement. And having that information is key. It's the old adage of you can't you can't change what you don't monitor. And it's getting getting your hands on that data is invaluable if you want to make improvements and change into your space.    Michael Moran [00:15:28] But then it doesn't. There's still that ethical quandary. Joe, if you're a director of h.r. Or facilities management and you find you've got this data, it's not consistently good. Maybe it's good some days, not others are good in some spaces and not others. Do you democratize that data and show it to all the staff?    James Matthews [00:15:48] Yeah, that's a tricky one. I think you'd probably work with your facilities team and your landlord if you're a tenant or if you are the facilities manager working on behalf of the landlord, then you'd certainly use that data to drive improvements and look at ways to improve the space. I think obviously with people choosing to work from home and choosing to work in the office these days, you'll see a shift in occupation patterns as well. So typically you might see higher levels of been in poor indoor air quality on say, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. If people are choosing to occupy the office more in that time, you could then set about strategies to improve the indoor air quality, potentially running the course at a higher rate on those particular days, and then offset by saving a bit of energy and reducing the phone calls potentially on Wednesdays, sorry, on Mondays and Fridays, when you have low or no occupation.    Michael Moran [00:16:51] You bring up a really good point that I think when people think of indoor air quality monitors, they think of something that looks like a smoke detector that just sits there and detects the air, but it's really affected by a lot of things. One of the most important is that the quickest way to get poor air in a room is to put a lot of people in and close the door. Right. Because we do nothing but emit carbon when we breathe. And if you're not, ventilating that occupancy data is key to correlate with the air quality, right?    James Matthews [00:17:24] Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. If you if you can marry the two, you've got a really powerful solution there.    Michael Moran [00:17:31] Well, we've already taken two breaks for the sponsor, so I won't tell our married solution here, but I think that's the idea. And it's not just occupancy, but there's other things that that affect to temperature, humidity. How often do you run into concern? I mean, you're working primarily in the UK, so it may be it may not be as big an issue as it would be in places like Beijing or Mumbai. How often do you run into concern about particulate matter? You know, the kind of the the outdoor pollution penetrating the indoor space.    James Matthews [00:18:06] I think there's a lot of concern, I think, in the U.K., this for especially in London, where you have quite a high traffic density. There's been recent kind of unfortunate examples of where there was a child that died and it was linked back to poor air quality because the school was on a on a highway, on a big, busy street. And it was it was proven that the not the sort of poor air quality of cars and trucks and everything that was was emitting was was a was the root cause of, unfortunately, this child's death, which is awful. But it is so it is a concern. And I think. Probably pre-pandemic when people were traveling more. There was more concern, I think. I would imagine this is my educated guess is that there's probably slightly less of an issue at the moment with people traveling less. But it's certainly it is an issue. And you do see, especially in London in the summer, you do see a sort of foggy haze sometimes when it's snowing and that there's no winds or anything and there is a real kind of issue. So I suppose it's more anecdotal than anything else, but there is there is certainly concern that I've noticed speaking to colleagues and clients as well.    Michael Moran [00:19:39] And, you know, here in the United States, this is a I almost said burning issue. That would be a little bit of color. This is a huge issue in the American West, where forest fires emit a lot of particulates into the air every year. Now, California, Colorado, where I live, there have been recent fires that made it unsafe to be in your house, you know, miles and miles from the actual event, just breathing the air. So I would imagine this is something we're going to see more of. And then, of course, you have cities like Beijing and Mumbai and industrial cities that burn coal. So it's not something going away as quickly as we might want. Right.    James Matthews [00:20:23] Yeah, absolutely it is. It is going to be a fact of life for for the foreseeable future. I think I was saying in Europe we are phasing out diesel in the UK and Europe. We are phasing out diesel engines. I'm not sure if that's happening in the US as well. And there is a huge, pretty big increase in EV charging and drivers as well. So the future is getting better and it will slowly phase down, but I think that's a fair way to go.    Michael Moran [00:20:56] And we can certainly thank Mr. Putin for keeping the oil pumping, but prices are very attractive for oil producers now, so the incentives don't always work in the direction that we might want for clean air. James, I wanted to ask, this has been fascinating. If you were to want to follow James MATTHEWS in your work and or carbon intelligence's work, what would be the best way to do that?    James Matthews [00:21:24] I would visit carbon.ci That's a web page and you can get more information on everything that we do there. And finally on LinkedIn, James MATTHEWS.    Michael Moran [00:21:37] James, I want to thank you again for being part of this manifest into the episode, and I wish you well in your work and be safe.    James Matthews [00:21:46] Thank you. Real pleasure to speak to you.    Michael Moran [00:21:52] And that's it for this edition of Manifest Density. Thank you, James Mathews for being our guest today. I'd like to remind everybody you can learn more about how Microshare is helping get the world safely back to work with our ever smart suite of products, including ever smart air and ever Smart, Clean, Ever Smart Space and energy management, ESG solutions as well. You can find more about these great solutions at WW w dot microshare i o. You can also subscribe to this podcast there or on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Google Play, Spotify, and many other platforms. Well, that'll do it for this week. On behalf of Microshare and all of its global employees, this is Michael Moran saying So long. Be well. And breathe clean air.   

เมื่อคุณภาพชีวิตที่ดี สามารถสร้างขึ้นได้ด้วยการมี “สภาพแวดล้อม” ที่ดี ไม่ได้อยู่แค่การออกกำลังกาย การเลือกทานแต่สิ่งดีๆ หรือการดูแลจิตใจของตัวเองให้ดีเท่านั้น แต่ยังรวมถึงปัจจัยภายนอกที่เราใช้ชีวิตในทุกทุกวันอยู่อีกด้วย รู้จัก WELL Building Standard มาตรฐานการก่อสร้างที่ดีกับ 7 ปัจจัยสิ่งแวดล้อมด้านสุขภาพที่ถ้ามีแล้วจะช่วยให้คุณภาพชีวิตของเรานั้นดียิ่งขึ้นอย่าง รอบด้านมีชีวิตไลฟ์สไตล์และชีวิตการทำงานที่สมบูรณ์แบบมากยิ่งขึ้น

เมื่อคุณภาพชีวิตที่ดี สามารถสร้างขึ้นได้ด้วยการมี “สภาพแวดล้อม” ที่ดี ไม่ได้อยู่แค่การออกกำลังกาย การเลือกทานแต่สิ่งดีๆ หรือการดูแลจิตใจของตัวเองให้ดีเท่านั้น แต่ยังรวมถึงปัจจัยภายนอกที่เราใช้ชีวิตในทุกทุกวันอยู่อีกด้วย รู้จัก WELL Building Standard มาตรฐานการก่อสร้างที่ดีกับ 7 ปัจจัยสิ่งแวดล้อมด้านสุขภาพที่ถ้ามีแล้วจะช่วยให้คุณภาพชีวิตของเรานั้นดียิ่งขึ้นอย่าง รอบด้านมีชีวิตไลฟ์สไตล์และชีวิตการทำงานที่สมบูรณ์แบบมากยิ่งขึ้น

เมื่อคุณภาพชีวิตที่ดี สามารถสร้างขึ้นได้ด้วยการมี “สภาพแวดล้อม” ที่ดี ไม่ได้อยู่แค่การออกกำลังกาย การเลือกทานแต่สิ่งดีๆ หรือการดูแลจิตใจของตัวเองให้ดีเท่านั้น แต่ยังรวมถึงปัจจัยภายนอกที่เราใช้ชีวิตในทุกทุกวันอยู่อีกด้วย รู้จัก WELL Building Standard มาตรฐานการก่อสร้างที่ดีกับ 7 ปัจจัยสิ่งแวดล้อมด้านสุขภาพที่ถ้ามีแล้วจะช่วยให้คุณภาพชีวิตของเรานั้นดียิ่งขึ้นอย่าง รอบด้านมีชีวิตไลฟ์สไตล์และชีวิตการทำงานที่สมบูรณ์แบบมากยิ่งขึ้น

In this episode, I interview Rachel Hodgdon, CEO of the International Well Building Institute (IWBI).  IWBI is leading the global movement to transform our buildings and communities in ways that help people thrive.  Rachel not only lives up to this mission externally, but inside her own team and her own life she is finding new ways to thrive.  Today, Rachel shares her journey towards resilience and how discovering your own strengths can lead to a healthier, happier, and more productive you.Follow The Resilience Lab: On InstagramOn LinkedInThe Resilience Lab is an Imagine a Place Production.  

Passive House Podcast cohost Zack Semke interviews Sy Safi, founder of Louisville, Kentucky-based design/build company, Ubergreen Spaces + Homes. Sy has been a leader in green building and design for well over a decade. In 2012 he created My Green Kentucky Home, a model home that is Kentucky's first Net Zero Energy, Net Zero Water home certified LEED Platinum by the US Green Building Council. Since then, he's adopted the most stringent third-party programs in the Living Building Challenge, Passive House and the WELL Building Standard, while becoming a Department of Energy Zero Energy Ready Home Partner, a Certified Passive House Consultant, Certified Passive House Builder and WELL Accredited Professional. In this interview, Sy talks about how he melds Passive House with WELL and Living Building Challenge in his work, and shares about a new, ambitious development project he's spearheading.

Ryan shares WELL's pioneering new affinity-based models based on 11 dimensions of wellness and lifelong learning and the needs of a new generation of older adults. He also describes how the pandemic exposed senior living's vulnerability. About Ryan Ryan Haller has more than 15 years of experience in real estate finance, mergers and acquisitions, real estate development, and integration. Ryan has spent the majority of his career working within the senior living industry pursuing betterment of stale methodologies. In September 2019, Ryan began his latest start-up WELL: Wellness Enhanced Lifestyle Living with a specific focus on future-forward senior living product for the Baby Boomer population. WELL focuses on 11 wellness dimensions in its developments across its brands, with a keen focus on university-based senior living via their VARCITY brand. Ryan serves as the Founding Principal and Chief Executive Officer. Ryan currently serves on the Board of Directors for Idaho Partners for Good, Executive Board for the American Senior Housing Association (ASHA), and is an active member in Young Presidents Organization (YPO) Idaho Chapter, including the YPO Healthcare Business Network's Senior Housing Forum. Key Takeaways · Despite the massive increase of capital infusion over the past 10 to 15 years, the senior living industry has not innovated significantly. · Build for affinity groups. Don't be all things to all people. · There will be an increased focus on sustainability and green building standards such as LEED certification and The WELL Building Standard®. · Many older adults will not retire. Fifty percent of active adult community residents are still working.

The future of hybrid work puts wellness at the forefront. But what does it take for the real estate industry and facilities managers to support wellness? In this episode, I interviewed Paul Scialla, the founder and CEO of Delos and founder of the International Well Building Institute The institute creates the WELL Building Standard (the wellness equivalent to LEED).

Bryden Wood's Head of Sustainability and Building Physics, Helen Hough, joins Jaimie Johnston to talk about all things sustainable design:From how Platform construction (P-DfMA) helps to lower embodied carbon, to designing buildings to the WELL Building Standard, with COVID-19 in mind.Helen Hough also gives an overview of the various built environment institutions working towards a more sustainable future from LETI to CIBSE to RIBA, Passivehaus and BREEAM. And so much more...battery technology, whole life value, net zero carbon emissions...

In this episode we discuss:Our experience with tunable white lighting. (01:00)Who is BIOS? (03:40)Interview with Patricia Rizzo, Axis Lighting. (05:30)Circadian lighting strategyTunable lighting vs BIOSThe WELL Building Standards for circadian lightingApplicationsComments, questions, or just want to say hi? Reach out to us at hello@environments.tech, we look forward to hearing from you.

Learn about one of Courtnay's FAVORITE topics: WELL Building Standard! WELL is a performance-based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and well-being. Listen as she gives a run down of some of the basics of the program and how it has such a huge impact on organizational success.

Episode 14 - "The Most Important Internal Building Ingredients to Improve the Wellbeing Performance of Any Building" with Olga Turner from Ekkist. This is Part 2 of a 3 Part Mini-series in partnership with Ekkist called "BUILDING IN HEALTH & WELLBEING: A How To". Olga is the Managing Director of Ekkist - which is a UK based property consultancy specialising in the design, creation and management of buildings and places that support human health and well-being; using the WELL Building Standard and the EKKIST Design for Well-being® Framework to deliver scientific research based advice. Today we investigate the most important internal building aspects which provide the greatest end user wellbeing benefits; providing clients and design teams with the information you need to laser focus construction budgets to maximise your Social ROI. The 5 core aspects covered are: Lighting Air Water Materials Operations For anyone who currently at RIBA Stage 3 - 4, Part 2 of the Mini-series will be very important for you as the integration of health and wellbeing at detailed design stage is a key to future proofing your asset from changing consumer demands long term. With your hosts, Adam Hinds and Jordan Relfe from the Award Winning LifeProven Wellbeing Property Consultancy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/builtforlife/message

Episode 12 - "How To Strategically Integrate Wellbeing at Masterplan & Building Design Stages" with Karen Rogers and Olga Turner from Ekkist. This is Part I of a 3 Part Mini-series in partnership with Ekkist called "BUILDING IN HEALTH & WELLBEING: A How To". Karen is the Director of Project Management and Olga is the Managing Director of Ekkist - which is property consultancy specialising in the design, creation and management of buildings and places that support human health and well-being; using the WELL Building Standard and the EKKIST Design for Well-being® Framework to deliver scientific research based advice. We cover a lot of ground in this first episode, starting with Olga providing an overview of the relationship between the built environment and human health and wellbeing; and how rapidly changing consumer demand is accelerating the adoption of health focused built environments. Karen defines the core health and wellbeing considerations for the masterplan and building design stages which property professionals and clients should consider and we discuss at length how this information can be best used to improve long term social and financial outcomes. For anyone who is currently in at RIBA Stage 0 - 4, Part I of the Mini-series will be very important for you as the integration of health and wellbeing is a wholistic approach to better development and also forms a key function in future proofing the asset from changing consumer demand to health focused environments. In summary, the health and wellbeing outcomes of masterplans and building designs should be a core foundational consideration on every project from day one, enabling better social and financial outcomes for both the client and the end user customers who occupy. With your hosts, Adam Hinds and Jordan Relfe from the Award Winning LifeProven Wellbeing Property Consultancy. RESOURCES: NHS Healthy Urban Planning Checklist - https://www.healthyurbandevelopment.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Healthy-Urban-Planning-Checklist-March-2014.pdf Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission - https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/building-better-building-beautiful-commission --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/builtforlife/message

Angela Spangler, MS, WELL Faculty, AEP is Education and Healthcare sector lead at the International Well Building Institute. She is also a WELL Faculty and Associate Ergonomics Professional. In July 2020, Mike Petrusky hosted a live webinar broadcast called “Maintaining Workplace Health Through Office Design and Pandemic Preparation” where Angela discussed the WELL Building Standard™, the leading tool for advancing public health and well-being in buildings globally. Mike asked Angela about how WELL building design, operations, and policies can help workplace leaders prevent the spread of infectious disease, prepare for impact, increase resiliency, and support recovery from global health challenges like the one we’re experiencing now. Connect with Angela on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelaspangler/ Learn more about the WELL Health Safety Rating: https://www.wellcertified.com/health-safety Discover COVID-19 Strategies from WELL: https://resources.wellcertified.com/tools/strategies-from-the-well-building-standard-to-support-in-the-fight-against-covid-19/ Watch the full webinar video with Angela and Mike: https://www.iofficecorp.com/webinar-download-maintaining-workplace-health-through-office-design-and-pandemic-preparation Register for future “Workplace Innovator Interactive” livestreams: https://www.iofficecorp.com/live-webinar-2020-weekly-livestream Discover free resources and explore past interviews at: https://www.workplaceinnovator.com/ Connect with Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikepetrusky/ Share your thoughts with Mike via email: podcast@iOFFICECORP.com  

Welcome to the Green Urbanist. The podcast for urbanists fighting climate change. I'm Ross.Today's episode is an interview with Giulia Mori. Giulia is a Senior Energy and Sustainability Consultant with Tuffin Ferraby Taylor in London. One of her areas of expertise is wellbeing in the built environment. The focus of our conversation is how architecture and urban design affects our health.Wellbeing is a huge topic. To keep this conversation to a reasonable length, we've chosen to focus on three topics: Air Quality, Thermal Comfort and Sedentary lifestyle. If you're unfamiliar with the term, Thermal Comfort is to do with how we experience temperature and the effect of this on our productivity and health.There are many many more aspects of wellbeing that we didn't have time to cover. For instance we didn't talk about nutrition, mental health, the importance of community or biophilia, our innate connection with the natural world. If you enjoy this episode, and you want to know more, Giulia can come back for another episode to talk about these topics.We are recording this in July 2020, when Covid-19 is still very much present in the world so we do talk about infectious disease towards the end of the podcast.Finally, just a point on some terminology. Giulia mentions two things you may be unfamiliar with - these are the Well Building Standard and the Fitwell standard. These are rating systems that you can follow when designing or retrofitting a building to make it as healthy as possible. A lot of what Giulia does is helping architects and developers to apply these standards to their buildings so they can be certified under Well or Fitwell. We don't go into depth on the standards, but just be aware that they exist as we do mention them in passing a few times.Contact Giulia on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giulia-mori-b91492120/Follow the podcast on social mediahttps://twitter.com/GreenUrbanPodhttps://www.instagram.com/greenurbanistpodIntro music by Tanoihttps://www.instagram.com/tanoibandhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/5CO2UfOc9jkoImoS6Wmsx4?si=HmxCxRYkTreT7XCTW2G51g

Paul Scialla, Founder and CEO at Delos is our guest today on the podcast. By placing health and wellness at the center of design, construction, technology and programming decisions, Delos is transforming our indoor environments into spaces that actively contribute to human health and well-being. Paul shares how the current crisis is moving beyond political boundaries. “At the end of the day,” Paul shares, “The broader notion of wellness real estate--if we can use our buildings, our homes, our offices, our schools, our hotels, and our senior and assisted living facilities as a way to, constantly and passively, deliver preventative medical intentions through four walls and a roof, there is not one political mind in the world that will have a problem with that.” This and Delos’s new Facilities Improvement Program and how it can help our most vulnerable population in this pandemic---our older adults in senior living communities and facilities---on today’s episode of the Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 podcast.  After 18 years on Wall Street, including 10 at Goldman Sachs as a Partner, Paul Scialla’s interest in sustainability and altruistic capitalism led him to found Delos, which is merging the world’s largest asset class – real estate – with the world’s fastest growing industry – wellness. Since the company’s inception, Paul has become a leading voice in the sustainability movement, serving as a keynote speaker at prominent green building, real estate, and technology forums and conferences around the world. Paul is also the Founder of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), which administers the WELL Building Standard® globally to improve human health and wellbeing through the built environment, a member of the Board of Directors for the Chopra Foundation, and a founding board member of the JUST Capital Foundation. Paul graduated from New York University with a degree in finance, and he currently resides in New York City. Learn more about Delos by visiting https://delos.com/.  Here’s what you’ll learn from Cheryl’s conversation today with Paul Scialla: Who is Delos and what is a Well Building as interpreted by Delos? What are the components of a Well Building and why is this important during this pandemic? What is Delos’s new Facilities Improvement Program or FIP and how can it help our most vulnerable population in this pandemic--our older adults in senior living communities and facilities? What is Delos’s Stay Well program and how can the healthcare design community learn from it moving forward? Is there a political divide in the USA when it comes to wellness in the built environment and the current crisis? What is the future of healthcare and wellness and will hotels and wellness come together in the future? Advice for the younger generation of healthcare design and architecture students who feel compelled to help make a difference in the world, but are also afraid to do so. This program is brought to you by Porcelanosa who extend their heartfelt appreciation for your support of this podcast. Stay safe and be well. To learn more about Porcelanosa, visit http://porcelanosa.com. Thank you to our industry partner, The Center for Health Design. To learn more about CHD’s new program MakingRoom, Connecting hotels and hospitals with urgent needs for space, please visit, https://www.healthdesign.org/makingroom. Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners: The American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design Learn more about how to become a Certified Healthcare Interior Designer®  by visiting the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers at: https://aahid.org/. Connect to a community interested in supporting clinician involvement in design and construction of the built environment by visiting The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design at https://www.nursingihd.com/ Thank you for listening to the Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 - podcast. If you enjoyed any part of this show, please help our podcast grow by spreading the good word on social media, and to your online community. Stay safe and be well! For the full roster of shows, visit http://healthcareidpodcast.com.

Join us as we pick the brain of Josh Airman, lead designer at Vigeo Construction and Consulting, on changes in design for 2020, what life looks like after COVID, and what it's like to build homes in Colorado. In this conversation, you'll discover: - How design is changing in 2020 and in the post-pandemic world - The effects of COVID-19 on design - The history of tight-space homes - What the Well Building Standard is all about (https://www.wellcertified.com) - How building in Colorado is different than other locations --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vigeo-exchange/support

Welcome, my flourishing friends! In today’s episode, we are going to talk about wellness and buildings, including different green and sustainable building standards that are out there (such as the WELL Building Standard) and how that evolved into thinking about wellness in our built environment. So, why does sustainability matter when it comes to buildings? From an environmental perspective, we know that a third of our greenhouses gas emissions are associated with buildings and the heating and cooling of those structures. Moreover, plenty of materials need to be produced to build them. When these buildings have served their time, they are dumped in a landfill without being properly deconstructed, which causes large volumes of waste. In places like Canada, where I live, we spend more than 90% of our time indoors. Therefore, a better indoor environment becomes increasingly important. Green building standards have been around for a long time. The first one, Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), was established in 1990 in the UK. Today’s discussion is all about the built environment and how we can think about human health, wellbeing, and restoring the planet through the built environment. Listen along as I give you an explanation of the various features that the WELL Building Standards consider when evaluating the environmental impact and sustainability of a building, with particular focus on office spaces. Key Points from This Episode:• Several reasons why sustainability is relevant in how we construct our buildings. • Learn about BREEAM, the world’s first and leading sustainability assessment method. • The U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. • The Green Globes standard: a practical and easy-to-implement framework. • Examples of the kind of infrastructural components evaluated by these standards. • The origin of the WELL Building Standard, what the programme entails, and its accreditation. • The prevalent concerns around the sick building syndrome that emerged in the 1980s. • Shifting thoughts about building energy-efficient buildings while still protecting the wellbeing of their occupants. • Unpacking the condition of “nature deficit disorder” and its plethora of repercussions. • The levels of certification and the preconditions for projects to be certified. • Why green buildings and sustainability are also in the best interest of employers. Quotables: “I do believe that how we build our infrastructure plays an enormous role in how we live our lives and how we interact with the world that sustains us.” — Kristina Hunter [0:38:47] Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Kristina HunterInternational WELL Building InstituteBREEAMThe U.S. Green Building CouncilGreen Globes BOMA BESTWorld Health OrganizationLast Child in the Woods Richard LouvFitwelLiving Building Challenge

Olga Turner Baker describes the WELL Building Standard and explains how the principles can be applied to improve health and well-being on individual projects. Check out the show notes for more information.

About this Episode Today's episode is about training on LEED and Well in other countries.  Charlie would like to get some feedback on the podcast from his listeners and he will provide some of the latest statistics from around the world.   Take time to email Charlie at charlie@gbes.com to share your feedback. Key Talking Points Intro to PSA Share Feedback w/Charlie Statistics for Green Building  International Programs  Links to several resources Key Milestones of the Episode [00:17]  Introduction to training, feedback and statistics [01:07]  Asking to share feedback from listeners [02:34]  Two Amazing trips [06:20]  Train Well Consultants [11:50]  Green Building Statistics [13:23]  Well Building Standard [15:25]  Outside US programs   Key Resources https://www.worldgbc.org/ https://www.usgbc.org/articles/leed-professionals-glance-july-2019 https://www.usgbc.org/articles/leed-numbers-16-years-steady-growth https://www.fitwel.org/certification https://centerforactivedesign.org/fitwel https://www.wellcertified.com/about-iwbi/ https://www.greenglobes.com/about.asp https://www.dgnb.de/en/news/statements/Comparison_LEED_and_DGNB/index.php https://gbca.org.au/ https://www.bca.gov.sg/green_mark/ https://www.hkgbc.org.hk/eng/about-us/what-is-green-building/index.jsp https://www.usgbc.org/articles/leed-and-industrial-facilities-meet-four-top-users-leed-videos https://resources.wellcertified.com/articles/iwbi-named-to-fast-companys-annual-list-of-the-worlds-most-innovative-companies-for-2019/ Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram GBES is excited our membership community is growing.  Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes.  We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast! Copyright © 2019 GBES

Ann Marie Aguilar, Director of Operations in Europe at the International WELL Building Institute, talks to Miri Stickland and Victoria Towers about the benefits of the WELL Building Standard, a performance-based system for measuring, certifying and monitoring features of buildings that impact human health and wellbeing. #WELLBuildingStandard #WELLinUK #WeAreWELL

Eve Picker: Hey, everyone this is Eve Picker, and if you listen to this podcast series, you're going to learn how to make some change. Thanks so much for joining us on this podcast. I'm Eve Picker, and my life revolves around cities, real estate, crowdfunding, and change. In this podcast series, we'll be digging deep to discover how we can build better cities by building better buildings. BE SURE TO CHECKOUT THE SHOWNOTES TO THIS EPISODE RIGHT HERE!  Eve Picker: Sandy Wiggins is my guest today. Sandy had an epiphany 25 years ago that has changed all of our lives. Then, he was a big-wig developer, having built millions of square feet of traditional buildings. Life was good, until one day, a friend showed him a small article on the impact that buildings had on the environment - the environment that Sandy loved so much. That conversation forever changed the direction of his life, and ours.   Eve Picker: 25 years later, Sandy has had a hand in building the US Green Building Council, in developing the LEED rating system, in developing over 60 LEED-rated commercial buildings, and the nation's first Gold-certified homes. Sandy's personal epiphany has impacted many lives.   Eve Picker: If you want to know more about Sandy after you've listened to this podcast, please visit EvePicker.com, where you'll find links and other goodies on the show notes page, and where you can subscribe to my newsletter on all things real-estate impact.   Eve Picker: Sandy, just tell us a little bit about your background, and what path led you to where you are today.   Sandy Wiggins: Sure. Initially in my career, I followed a pretty traditional path in development, and construction; worked in both residential and commercial sectors; also did some institutional work, and spent the better part of two decades following that path, and actually worked all over the eastern United States on many different kinds of projects.   Sandy Wiggins: Then reached a point where I was the executive vice president of a firm that I helped build into a fairly large firm, and was feeling that something wasn't right. I was working on a project in Philadelphia, where I lived at the time, and was out to lunch with the architect, who was a friend.   Sandy Wiggins: During our lunch conversation, he shared a tiny little article in an architectural magazine about the environmental impact of building, and buildings. I was kind of stunned by that. I'd been a passionate outdoors person, an environmentalist, my whole life, but had never connected that passion with what I did for a living.   Sandy Wiggins: It became an itch that I just couldn't stop scratching. I wanted to understand it. On that project, we tried to do the best we could, but there was very little information available to help us.   Sandy Wiggins: I started to bring people together in the Philadelphia community, who were interested in having a conversation about that. We would meet informally once a month. There were a few architects, and other developers, a person from city government. That little group grew to maybe 15 or 20 people.   Sandy Wiggins: Then, I decided that we should actually launch a more formal effort, and started a non-profit in Philadelphia focused on greening the built environment. At the time, it was called the Delaware Valley Green Building Council. Today, it's called Green Building United.   Sandy Wiggins: Through that platform, began to connect to other people around the country who were also thinking about these issues, which ultimately led me to the very nascent US Green Building Council. I became very involved in that, and the development of the LEED rating systems, and moving those out into the marketplace, and helping to build USGBC.   Eve Picker: That's pretty spectacular.   Sandy Wiggins: Yeah, well, it was-   Eve Picker: How long did all of that take, from when you first saw the article to ...?   Sandy Wiggins: Oh, so, when I first saw that article, I want to say it was 1993. USGBC began to form in the late '90s. It was a very small community of people. LEED, the very first pilot version of LEED, was launched in 2000.   Sandy Wiggins: By 2007, we'd hit a tipping point, and LEED was becoming the standard for pretty much any what I would call Class-A building in the United States, and it was it was propagating around the world. It'd been adopted in China, and India and other countries. It moved very rapidly.   Eve Picker: Yeah, that is pretty fast.   Sandy Wiggins: Yeah.   Eve Picker: I tried using LEED on a renovation of an historic building in the early 2000s, and I gave up; at that time, it was not ... It was really geared towards greenfield developments, which was kind of weird, when you think about this. It was just too hard for a small- not a huge project; a smaller project in an inner city. I think that's changed, too, right?   It has changed a lot. There are now many versions of LEED that are designed to suit different kinds of projects. There's LEED for neighborhood developments, and now there's LEED for cities, and there's the WELL Building Standard ... There's many other pathways that people can follow to help them develop green buildings, and green communities.   Eve Picker: Do you think those sorts of ratings are the answers, or building the socially responsible way, I suppose?   Sandy Wiggins: Are they the answers? No, they're just a tool. First of all, from an environmental perspective ... I've gone on, and become involved with net-zero energy projects, Living Building Challenge, and Living Community Challenge projects.   Sandy Wiggins: From an environmental perspective, LEED has been catalytic in terms of raising awareness in the industry. It certainly has had an incremental impact, in terms of the environmental impact of buildings, but it's still just doing less bad. We need to do a whole lot better.   Sandy Wiggins: From a socially responsible perspective, LEED has really lacked in terms of addressing any issues of social equity. They're starting to take pieces of that on. But Living Building Challenge, for example, has a very distinct focus on social equity, and social justice.   Sandy Wiggins: Still, the rating systems are just a tool. We fundamentally need to change the mindset that we're operating from, in order to really address both the social, and environmental issues that we're facing right now.   Eve Picker: Be sure to go to EvePicker.com, and sign up for my free educational newsletter about impact real-estate investing. You'll be among the first to hear about new projects you can invest in. That's EvePicker.com. Thanks so much.   Sandy Wiggins: One of the things that worries me is that LEED is a tool that's just for one segment of society, one industry. Most people don't know about it at all. I suppose they only get to know about it when they use the building.   Eve Picker: I really think for an understanding of what's going on to filter into everyone's minds, you have to speak in plain English, and many of these ratings, and words that we use are not plain English for most people. We're kind of a long way from most people understanding what needs to happen.   Sandy Wiggins: I agree.   Eve Picker: Yeah, so ... Well, that's pretty amazing; that's been a long time coming. What else do you think might be improved in the world of real-estate impact, even real-estate impact investing?   Sandy Wiggins: Great question. Talking about real-estate impact investing, the availability of capital creates so many possibilities that we aren't taking advantage of. Frankly, it comes from the economic mindset that drives all of our behavior, which is fundamentally about eking out the maximum profit - financial profit - from every dollar that we invest. When I talk about a mindset shift, that's really what I'm talking about.   Sandy Wiggins: We really need to- we need to stop externalizing the environmental, and social impacts of our investment decisions, and start looking at those investments in a much more holistic way to understand what are those environmental, and social impacts? How can we start to actually include them in our decision-making process about the return that we're getting for the capital that we're putting to work?   Sandy Wiggins: That fundamentally needs to change, and it is changing. There's a growing community of impact, or mission investors who are thinking about these issues, and who aren't willing to invest in anything, including real-estate projects, that are moving the needle in the wrong direction.   Eve Picker: Yeah, I've heard statistics now of as high as 85 percent of investors want to invest in some sort of socially responsible way in their portfolio. It's a very big number now.   Sandy Wiggins: Yeah, it's another sort of hockey stick.   Eve Picker: It really is, but I have to say, my disappointment with this, and I know that we've talked about this before ... I have yet to see investors with really deep pockets invest in - let's say credit investors, not necessarily investors with really deep pockets - but I think people are still quibbling about the return they're going to get.   Eve Picker: They want a return, and they want social responsibility. They don't seem yet ready to give up on the return. I think you're working with, or seeing an elite group of people who are educated enough to understand that they have to give up something. I'm not seeing that yet.   Sandy Wiggins: Yeah ... It's difficult territory, and it's slow, because the underlying paradigm that we all operate from creates this economic system that ... This is very deep, Eve. It's fundamentally about security, and survival.   Sandy Wiggins: We live in a system driven by these underlying beliefs, or paradigms that see us as separate from each other, separate from the environment, that give rise to - even though these aren't conscious - the belief that resources are scarce; that I have to look out for myself. One of the fallouts of that is that there's this hyper-focus on aggregating resources for myself, and maximizing financial return.   Sandy Wiggins: When we talk about investing in socially responsible, or sustainable communities, we need to be thinking about much more than just the built environment; we need to be thinking about the social systems in those communities. The built environment really has a huge impact in framing how those systems operate, so it's all deeply intertwined.   Sandy Wiggins: Here's what I see happening in the world, and this is nascent, and it's going to ... Hopefully, more and more people will get to this, but there are many people that are experiencing the perspective that we are deeply interconnected, and inextricably interconnected with each other, and with the natural environment, and that we need to be thinking about how our resources are deployed to support each other, as well as ourselves.   Sandy Wiggins: Things like co-housing is a great example of this. It's a tiny little part of the development world. Co-housing started in Denmark 60 years ago, and first spread around Europe; now it's happening in the United States, but it's still quite ...  There's only maybe 300 co-housing communities in the US. There really it's a pattern of development that is designed to support community, and connection to each other, and caring for each other. That's where I think we have to go.   Eve Picker: I think that's right, but I think that many of us have been let down by communities around us, over racial, and religious issues, and many other issues. It's difficult to trust, given that, right? I suppose it's not hard to understand why people feel they need to look after themselves first.   Sandy Wiggins: Yeah, no, it's not. It's completely understandable, because it's just- it is wired into our system, but it's not an absolute, I guess is what I would say. It's based on a series of beliefs that have been built up over centuries, and particularly the last two centuries.   Sandy Wiggins: It's difficult to change, but, honestly, from where I sit, having spent the last 20 years now deeply involved in environmental sustainability, social justice, from the perspective- much of that from the perspective of real-estate development, and impact investing, we have to change, or we're not going to survive.   Eve Picker: What do you like best about the world of real-estate impact investing? What do you think it can do-  good things it can do?  I mean, I know ... My small hope for Small Change is that we can list a project in a neighborhood, and people who live there can invest in it, and benefit not only from seeing that project built where they already own an asset - their own house - but that they can build wealth where they live, as well. That's kind of my little piece of excitement about real-estate impact investing, but [cross talk]   Sandy Wiggins: -quite frankly, that excites me a lot, and, to me, it's an important, and beautiful step in the direction that we need to take. When people invest in their own communities, when they ...   Sandy Wiggins: In the dominant system that we're all a part of, people put their money into mutual funds, and public equities. They are completely disconnected from their investment. It's complex; it's opaque, and disconnected, and it's really strictly focused on short-term financial return.   Sandy Wiggins: What is needed is a shift to investment that is direct, transparent, personal, and grounded in a system of relationships. That's, to me, what Small Change is doing- is creating in the real-estate industry.   Sandy Wiggins: If I put my money into a REIT, and the REIT's investing in real-estate projects all over the country that I have no connection to, all I care about is the financial return. If I put my money into a building that's going to house the local grocery store in my community, I drive by that store every day. I care about it.   Sandy Wiggins: It fundamentally changes my relationship to my investment. If that business gets in trouble, yes, I'm worried about my investment, but I also want that business to succeed, because I have a relationship to it. I don't know if I'm answering your question [cross talk]   Eve Picker: -that's the way I see to it, too. Are there any other direct-investment opportunities, or investment opportunities emerging that you think can help solve this problem of the relationship of you to the place you're in, and the people around you?   Sandy Wiggins: Obviously, if you're an accredited investor, and there are opportunities in your place to directly invest in real-estate projects in a more traditional sense, that's helpful. That's impact investing, if you're working through this lens of local, and sustainable investment, but the system's kind of wired to prevent us from doing that. Regulation Crowdfunding is like a first giant step into that space; although, as you know, it's still really hard, and nascent.   Eve Picker: Yeah, it is really hard. I think we need a lot of investor education. I think there's a lot of mistrust around it. Let's move on to some other thoughts. I'm just wondering if you think there are any current trends in real-estate development that are important? You mentioned co-housing. We know that co-working has also really taken off as a way for people to share business spaces. I'm wondering what else is out there?   Sandy Wiggins: Co-housing, and co-working are great examples of new trends that I think really should be supported, and that there's a pent-up demand for. I just find this in many of the different networks that I'm connected to, that there is a demand for product that isn't being developed, because developers are generally trying to maximize return, or just don't understand this emergent market.   Sandy Wiggins: Again, I can't help but come back to the necessity to respond to what are now becoming environmental emergencies that we're facing. I mean, climate change, or climate crisis - as people are starting to call it now - is Exhibit A. The development community needs to respond to that. Everybody needs to respond to it. Government needs to respond to it. The codes that govern development need to respond to it.   Sandy Wiggins: The development community needs to, and can respond to it ... Net-zero energy development; things like the Living Building Challenge, and Living Community Challenge are stakes in the ground that are moving us in the right direction.   Sandy Wiggins: Frankly, I've worked on enough net-zero energy projects now to understand that we have all the technology we need to do this.  Not every building can be net-zero energy, independently, particularly in dense urban environments, when you're dealing with multi-storied structures, but, when you start to look at whole communities, we can build net-zero energy communities. For me, there's just no excuse for us not to be going there.   Eve Picker: Yeah. That's actually really interesting. I haven't been watching what's been happening in the code world, but I still talk to developers who fuss about how many parking spaces they're going to have. There are certainly requirements in the city I live in for parking; although they're reduced in some places.   Eve Picker: I could imagine - build a net-zero-energy building, and provide bike racks for everyone, and is there really a need for parking at all? I think you'd get much better development. It would help the environment. It'll be friendlier for the city. I just don't- I don't see that shift happening in most places yet. It's a really big shift.   Sandy Wiggins: It is, and you're right, it's not happening in most places ...  I happen to live in a city that's really progressive in this regard - Washington DC. The zoning codes are changing; the building codes are changing. There's a very robust, overarching ... They call it the Sustainable DC Plan that's driving this that is championed both by the Mayor, and City Council.   Sandy Wiggins: It is happening in places, and having been involved in movement building in the past, I see that as a really hopeful sign, because one of the things that needs to happen is that functional exemplars have to emerge, so that other people can say, "Okay, you can actually do this, and we can copy that."   Eve Picker: Right.   Sandy Wiggins: San Francisco, and DC are two communities where that's starting to happen-   Eve Picker: Right. Just a really great example: I'm looking at a smallish project in Pittsburgh, which is, we think, going to be 20-, or maybe a 30-unit building. Most of the first floor is going to be taken up with parking, because it's required in the code.   Eve Picker: It's an expensive use of the space. The building is very close to downtown. It's flat. It's bike-able. I would be thrilled if the city said to me, "Okay, give us a net-zero-energy building,  and we'll eliminate the parking requirement."   Sandy Wiggins: Right.   Sandy Wiggins: I don't actually know the cost, but I'm going to guess that we'd end up maybe in the same place, and that would be- that's a really good example of what I think ought to happen-   Sandy Wiggins: I agree.   Eve Picker: -but isn't happening yet.   Sandy Wiggins: Here's another ... Again, for the development community, once you understand the importance of this, it really becomes your responsibility to become an advocate for it.   Sandy Wiggins: I will tell you that having, again, spent many years now working on projects that are kind of pushing the edge of what's possible, in terms of particularly environmental sustainability, the hardest part is dealing with the regulatory environment.   Sandy Wiggins: I can't tell you how many hours I've spent educating, and advocating with local agencies, state agencies, even the federal government, to enable the kind of development that really should be occurring.   Eve Picker: You don't have to tell me. First of all, I have a funding portal, so you know what that means, right?   Sandy Wiggins: Yes, right.   Eve Picker: Secondly, I was the first loft developer in downtown Pittsburgh, at a time where, literally, a banker I went to said to me, "Aww, honey, no one's gonna live there ..."   Sandy Wiggins: Right. Yep.   Eve Picker: Yeah, it requires ... It's a lot of work, but it's also a lot of fun making something change for the better.   Sandy Wiggins: Yeah, absolutely.   Eve Picker: Do you see any particular community engagement tools that could help, or have worked, or work well?   Sandy Wiggins: Another great question. What I've come to believe is that the most valuable asset that you have with any capital project is the attention of a large community of stakeholders around that project.   Sandy Wiggins: Whenever there's development, whether it's a single home, or a whole neighborhood, or a downtown high-rise building, there are lots of people who are interested in what's going on. Many of them might be NIMBYs, but that attention is incredibly valuable. Using processes that take advantage of that attention to educate, and enroll, and build consensus about what's going to happen is critically important.   Sandy Wiggins: Most of the projects that I get involved with, we use something called a dynamic-planning process, where we are really inviting all those stakeholders' voices into the design, and development, including the people that are the alligators - the ones that want to come up, and kind of bite you in the backside - because their voices are important. You need to hear them, and understand them.   Sandy Wiggins: What I've found, consistently, is if they are treated with respect, and invited in, and heard, and you really spend the time to understand what's driving their concern, or issue, that almost always, you can find a way to turn those alligators into advocates.   Eve Picker: That requires a lot of patience, I think.   Sandy Wiggins: It does, yep.   Eve Picker: What are you working on, today? What's your project of the moment?   Sandy Wiggins: At the moment, I've got a ... There's a cluster of Living Building Challenge projects that I've been working on for a number of years, just outside of DC, in Maryland. It's called the Potomac Watershed Study Center. That's ongoing. We're down to the final phase of that project, after almost a decade.   Sandy Wiggins: I am working on a Living Community Challenge project, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with Antioch College. Again, it's been many years, but we've been through a master-planning process, and if everything goes right, there'll actually be a pilot phase constructed this year.   Sandy Wiggins: I'm working on some local projects in the DC market that are attempting to be net-zero energy and/or Living Building Challenge projects. Those are the real-estate projects I'm working on. I spend a lot of time working in the mission-investing space, too.   Eve Picker: Yeah, it's pretty fabulous ... I may yet come to you for advice on this little project in Pittsburgh, on how to tackle that idea. I've got three sign-off questions for you. What is the key factor that you believe makes a real-estate project impactful, or that makes a real-estate project impactful to you?   Sandy Wiggins: I would say the key factor that makes a real-estate project impactful-   Eve Picker: We're looking at key factors.   Sandy Wiggins: Yeah, or factors. A number of things come up for me. One, that it really is environmentally responsive, and that is in terms of the kind of environmentally responsive things we talk about with sustainability, energy efficiency, water, things like that - that it's environmentally responsive to the community that it's in; that is really additive to the health, and vitality of the community that it's a part of, and that it has successfully engaged the stakeholders around that project; not just the end users, but everybody is going to be impacted by it in ways that are satisfying, and that are actually building community. Those are the things that rise up for me.   Eve Picker: Okay, that's a pretty big list, yeah?   Sandy Wiggins: Yes.   Eve Picker: Then, other than by raising money, in what ways can involving investors through crowdfunding benefit the impact real-estate developer?   Sandy Wiggins: Well, again, what comes up for me is this idea of attention. When an investor is investing in a true crowdfunding, in a project that they can see, touch, feel ... It's something that's in their community, or a community that's part of their universe, there's an opportunity to build relationship for deep engagement, for education. That's what comes up for me there.   Eve Picker: Okay. Then, this is a really big one, but how do you think real-estate development in the US can be improved?   Sandy Wiggins: Oh boy.   Eve Picker: I have ideas.   Sandy Wiggins: Yeah.   Eve Picker: There's really so much bad real-estate development still going on that ... I know that's a really big question, but ...   Sandy Wiggins: Yeah. It's a huge question. It's such a big question, I'm not sure how to answer it, other than at a very high level, and say it's not about the money. It's about giving people better lives.   Sandy Wiggins: If we approach it from that perspective, that's the improvement that we need that every development project should be about improving the quality of people's lives. That includes our relationship with the natural world. That's how it has to be improved-   Eve Picker: I think that's a great answer. I think maybe it's a threatening, and overwhelming thought for a lot of people, but the way I like ... When things are really big, I like to think about them in chunks.   Eve Picker: It's not that a building has to solve everything, but it could tackle one or two things. If you're just going to focus on making sure that the people who live in the building don't have huge utility bills, that's a start, right?   Sandy Wiggins: Right.   Eve Picker: It doesn't have to solve everything. In any case, I really enjoyed talking to you, and I'm sure we're going to talk again soon, Sandy.   Sandy Wiggins: All right, Eve, thanks.   Eve Picker: Thank you very much.   Sandy Wiggins: Yep. I've enjoyed it, too. Take care.   Eve Picker: Okay, goodbye.   Sandy Wiggins: Bye-bye.   Eve Picker: That was Sandy Wiggins. What a great conversation that was. I feel a little diminished beside Sandy's extraordinary accomplishments. Sandy gave me three great takeaways.   Eve Picker: First, that the real-estate industry was waiting for guidance on environmental impact, evidenced by the speed with which the LEED rating system was adopted. Second, that there are lots of pathways that you can follow to build sustainably today, including LEED, the well-being standard, net-zero, and Passive House Standard. Third, addressing issues of social equity must come next. What did you learn?   Eve Picker: You can read more about Sandy on the show notes page for this podcast, at EvePicker.com. While you're there, please consider signing up for my newsletter to find out more about how to make money in real estate, while making some change.   Eve Picker: Thank you so much for spending your time with Sandy, and I, today. We'll talk again soon, but for now, this is Eve Picker signing off to go make some change.  

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As the popularity of certification systems like the WELL Building Standard and Fitwell continue to grow, what does this mean for employees' personal expression? Design Connections conference chair Jane Rohde and senior associate for Stanley Wilcox Toni Wyre sit down to discuss the impacts of health and wellness certifications and more in the first segment of i+s' Design Connections podcast series.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/interiorsandsources/support

Juliette speaks with Kate Hamblet of Balanced Home Balanced Life about the Well Building Standard and how applying it to our homes can make our everyday lives healthier and happier. Don't forget there is far more free and valuable information on our website www.propertyrenovationpodcast.com

Scott Muldavin, CRE, President of the Muldavin company. We discuss the Intersection of financial modeling for your deep retrofit and healthy real estate investment. Companies are Under-investing in energy efficiency and sustainability, hurting their profits and competitive position. Healthy building investments create financial benefits, such benefits can be calculated and presented as part of a company's normal investment due diligence using traditional financial analysis techniques. Scott and I discuss how to improve real estate decisions to achieve greater profits, investment returns, and operating efficiency. We talk about deep energy retrofits and Value Beyond Cost Savings, and the framework of the Well Building Institute Standard which he participated in developing. Reference Links: http://www.muldavin.com/publications/ (Link to Scotts Publications) https://www.amazon.com/VALUE-BEYOND-COST-SAVINGS-Sustainable/dp/0982635702/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538488916&sr=8-1&keywords=value+beyond+cost+savings (Scott's book "Value Beyond Cost Savings") https://www.wellcertified.com/ (Well Building Standard) https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottmuldavin/ (Linkedin)

What is LEED? Who is involved in LEED? Why should I care about LEED?   In today’s episode, Bill Spohn welcomes one of the leaders in the green building industry, Charlie Cichetti, Owner of Green Building Education Services (www.GEBS.com) and the Sustainable Investment Group (www.SIGEarth.com).   Charlie covers the history of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) as well as recent changes and where things are headed in the future. We hear about the shift in focus from buildings to the people that work, live and play in buildings.   Charlie shares with us details from his career and passion for the industry and the work he does. He also hosts a podcast where he recently interviewed Bill Spohn. You’ll find it here: Green Building Matters Podcast, Episode 26:   Several times we note the Well Building Standard (www.wellcertified.com) as well as other standards and a new health oriented commercial building certification sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control (US CDC) called FitWel (www.fitwel.org)  

Interested in the upcoming WELLNESS district in Tampa Bay? You need to understand DELOS first. After 18 years on Wall Street, including 10 at Goldman Sachs as a Partner, Paul Scialla's interest in sustainability & altruistic capitalism led him to found Delos, which is merging the world's largest asset class – real estate – with the world's fastest growing industry – wellness. Since inception, Paul has become a leading voice in the sustainability movement, serving as a keynote speaker at prominent green building, real estate, and technology forums and conferences around the world. Paul is also the Founder of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), which administers the WELL Building Standard® globally to improve human health and wellbeing through the built environment, a member of the Board of Directors for the Chopra Foundation, and a founding board member of the JUST Capital Foundation. Paul graduated from NYU with a degree in finance, and he currently resides in NYC --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thedoctorwhisperer/message

The IWBI has enrolled more than 780 projects across 32 countries representing over 147 million square feet of real estate. Wow!

An extended episode but trust us, you'll want to listen to it all! Sponsored by Nuffield Health and recorded at the Endeavour Search & Selection Wellbeing Seminar that took place at the offices of Berwin Leighton & Paisner Law firm in London Bridge, Russell Goldsmith spoke with a number of the morning's presenters. Our guests were: 1. Geoff McDonald, former Global VP for HR at Unilever and now a regular industry speaker and consultant on the topics of depression & anxiety. Geoff talks about the need for companies to embed purpose as a driver of their business performance and why it's so important for people to talk about their mental health, sharing his own personal story too. 2. Starting at 26:40 - Alaana Linney, Director of Business Development, Nuffield Health on their holistic approach to health and wellbeing and understanding data 3. Monica Kalia, Co-founder, Neyber on financial wellbeing. 4. Alan Fogarty, Partner at Cundall discusses how a building can impact on the wellness of those working within it and explains how he implemented the WELL Building Standard in his London office fit-out, achieving a Gold Level for what is the first certified project of its kind in Europe. 5. Holly Price, Training & Development Director at Keltbray Group and Daniel Raine, Global Director Consulting & Business Intelligence for HRG Worldwide share their company's wellbeing journeys. 6. Kirsten Samuel, CEO of Kamwell on implementing wellbeing programmes For more information on Endeavour Search & Selection visit http://endeavoursearch.com/ For more information on Nuffield Health visit https://www.nuffieldhealth.com/

Judith Webb, Executive Vice President at International WELL Building Institute, joins host Michael Bull on America's Commercial Real Estate Show to discuss how to get your building WELL certified, assessing air and water quality in a building, and measuring with the WELL Building Standard.

Scott Muldavin, President at The Muldavin Company, joins host Michael Bull on America's Commercial Real Estate Show to discuss the importance of wellness for your space, the seven concepts of the WELL Building Standard, and the benefit statistics of applying wellness standards.

Leigh Stringer, Senior Workplace Expert for EYP Architecture & Engineering, and author of the Healthy Workplace, The Green Workplace. We talk about the business case for a healthy workplace, fueling the human engine and choosing the right design elements to enable productivity. We had an amazing talk. Look for my interview with Leigh Stringer next week. You can find Leigh Stringer at: http://leighstringer.com (leighstringer.com) http://@string0820 (Twitter ) https://www.linkedin.com/in/leighstringer/ (LinkedIn) https://www.facebook.com/TheHealthyWorkplaceBook (Facebook) You can find the two books she has authored: http://www.amazon.com/Green-Workplace-Sustainable-Strategies-Environment/dp/0230103367/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447865033&sr=8-1&keywords=the+green+workplace (The Green Workplace: Sustainable Strategies that Benefit Employees, the Environment, and the Bottom Line)  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814437435/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0814437435&linkCode=as2&tag=string0820-20&linkId=ab732c7ad6ef19af516d5d3af84cd68b (The Healthy Workplace: How to Improve the Well-Being of Your Employees—and Boost Your Company's Bottom Line) Resources: https://www.jjhpi.com/ (Human Performance Institute) http://www.rwjf.org/en/library/interactives/interactive-map-the-evolution-of-an-epidemic.html (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Obesity in America: Mapping the Evolution of an Epidemic) https://justgetflux.com/ (f.lux) – “it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day” https://www.yogaglo.com/ (Yoga Glow) https://www.mindfulnesscds.com/ (Guided Mindfulness Meditation) http://www.leighstringer.com/andy_lee/ (Aetna's Chief Mindfulness Officer: An Interview with Andy Lee ) https://www.calm.com/ (Calm App) http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/bloom-productivity-iphone.html (Bloom App) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/gps-for-the-soul-app_n_4324970.html (GPS 4 Soul App) http://buddhify.com/ (Bhuddify) https://foodpsychology.cornell.edu/ (Food and Brand Lab ) https://www.wellcertified.com/ (Well Building Standard) https://fitwel.org/ (Fitwel) http://www.chaa.org/ (Corporate Health Achievement Award) http://www.rayfabiusmd.com/ (Ray Fabius) https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/3011/ron-z-goetzel (Ron Goetzel, Phd) https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/katherine-baicker/ (Katherine Baiker) - Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Economics: Music by: Epic Music Supervision Constructrr.com/ep41

This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Rachel Gutter, Chief Product Officer for the International WELL Building Institute. Ms. Gutter joined the International WELL Building Institute in late 2016 as senior vice president, bringing with her a wealth of cross-cutting experience in safer, healthier environments where they matter the most: in school rooms across the globe. She joins IWBI after a nine-year career at the U.S. Green Building Council, where she founded the Center for Green Schools, convening and collaborating with a diverse group of partners, including teachers unions, the National PTA, the Department of Education, the Princeton Review, executives from Fortune 100 companies, and green building councils around the world. Under her direction, the Center published more than 1,000 pages of technical guides and original research, mobilized more than $275 billion in investments in LEED certified educational facilities, and deployed more than half a million volunteers to contribute $50 million in donated time to transform schools and campuses on every continent. In her current role she is helping the International WELL Building Institute continue their development and implementation of the WELL Building Standards. According to the Institute this is the first standard of its kind that focuses solely on the health and wellness of building occupants. WELL identifies 100 performance metrics, design strategies, and policies that can be implemented by the owners, designers, engineers, contractors, users and operators of a building. It is based on a thorough review of the existing research on the effects of spaces on individuals and has been advanced through a thorough scientific and technical review. In order to achieve the requirements of the WELL Building Standard, the space must undergo a process that includes an on-site assessment and performance testing by a third party. Overall, the WELL Building Standard is designed to comprehensively cover the various individual needs of building occupants while also building a common foundation for measuring wellness in the built environment.

This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Rachel Gutter, Chief Product Officer for the International WELL Building Institute. Ms. Gutter joined the International WELL Building Institute in late 2016 as senior vice president, bringing with her a wealth of cross-cutting experience in safer, healthier environments where they matter the most: in school rooms across the globe. She joins IWBI after a nine-year career at the U.S. Green Building Council, where she founded the Center for Green Schools, convening and collaborating with a diverse group of partners, including teachers unions, the National PTA, the Department of Education, the Princeton Review, executives from Fortune 100 companies, and green building councils around the world. Under her direction, the Center published more than 1,000 pages of technical guides and original research, mobilized more than $275 billion in investments in LEED certified educational facilities, and deployed more than half a million volunteers to contribute $50 million in donated time to transform schools and campuses on every continent. In her current role she is helping the International WELL Building Institute continue their development and implementation of the WELL Building Standards. According to the Institute this is the first standard of its kind that focuses solely on the health and wellness of building occupants. WELL identifies 100 performance metrics, design strategies, and policies that can be implemented by the owners, designers, engineers, contractors, users and operators of a building. It is based on a thorough review of the existing research on the effects of spaces on individuals and has been advanced through a thorough scientific and technical review. In order to achieve the requirements of the WELL Building Standard, the space must undergo a process that includes an on-site assessment and performance testing by a third party. Overall, the WELL Building Standard is designed to comprehensively cover the various individual needs of building occupants while also building a common foundation for measuring wellness in the built environment.

Sustainable Minds® has just launched a catalog of products that meet the most rigorous environmental and material health reporting standards in the building industry. The catalog is free to building professionals – architects, engineers, and construction – who would otherwise spend hundreds of hours searching for products that qualify for LEED v4, Green Globes, the Well Building Standard and the Living Building Challenge. For manufacturers who have made the commitment to product transparency, the Transparency Catalog™ provides a way to market their products, and presents their information in a simple, standardized and consistent way. Tune in as we talk with Sustainable Minds® CEO, Terry Swack, about how this new catalog will transform the green, healthy building movement, and how it could affect everyday people in their offices, homes and schools.

Lighting is getting significant attention from the new WELL Building standard. Join hosts JP Bedell and Megan Mazzocco as they talk to Nathan Stodola, VP of the International WELL Building Institute. Listen closely as he addresses Circadian Lighting Design, The Right to Light and Melonopic Lux Ratio calculations. Video available below Host: JP Bedell & Megan [...]

The WELL Building Standard® focuses on human wellness within the built environment. It identifies specific conditions, that when holistically integrated into building architecture and design, enhance the health and well-being of the occupants. Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively influence our health through the quality of our surroundings. Join us for lunch where Delos and other WELL experts will explore the principles behind engineering healthy spaces, providing insight into marrying design and construction processes with evidence-based health and wellness technologies. Delos is a “pioneer” of the WELL Building Standard and the founder of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI). Speakers: Randy Fiser, CEO, American Society of Interior Designers Jessica Cooper, Executive Director, Delos Moderator: Colleen Conklin, Director Research, Sodexho