The Design, Delivery and Management of Healthy Buildings: A Practical Guide

Our individual health is directly tied to the health of our buildings and research shows that our environment can have more influence on some aspects of our health than genetics. Addressing health and well-being in the built environment is therefore vital to supporting public health. Recognising this link, design for well-being has emerged as a distinct new discipline, alongside a range of global certification standards.

It is the collective role and responsibility of all built environment professionals to ensure that we are delivering buildings for current and future generations that will ultimately help to create healthy, thriving and resilient communities globally.

This document is designed to provide an overview for surveying professionals of the key aspects and processes that need to be considered in the creation of healthy buildings. The purpose is to provide an overview and set of key resources, rather than outline detailed interventions, which present standards and frameworks already facilitate. We hope that it will inspire conversations, increase knowledge and awareness, and help professionals to build compelling cases to be put forward to key decision-makers, that support genuine actions and industry-wide progress.  

This guidance forms a natural companion to the approaches and frameworks outlined in the IBOS standard.

Join this free to access webinar as we discuss why this guidance is needed, how buildings impact our health and how organisations can work collaboratively to create and maintain healthy buildings across all built environment professions.

Speakers

• Paul Bagust, Head of Professional Practice, Property, RICS
• Richard Le Sueur, Director, Commercial, International WELL Building Institute
• Olga Turner Baker, Managing Director, Ekkist
• Alexandra Farrant, Sustainability Design Executive, Landsec