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Healthy Buildings
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Author : JOSEPH G. ALLEN
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-18
Healthy Buildings written by JOSEPH G. ALLEN and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-18 with Architecture categories.
Buildings can make us sick or keep us well. Diseases and toxins course through indoor spaces, making us ill. Meanwhile, better air quality and light levels improve productivity. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has us focused more than ever on indoor air quality, Healthy Buildings shows how much we have to gain from human-centered design.
Healthy Buildings
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Author : Joseph G. Allen
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-21
Healthy Buildings written by Joseph G. Allen and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-21 with Business & Economics categories.
A New York Times Favorite Book of the Year for Healthy Living A Fortune Best Book of the Year An AIA New York Book of the Year “This book should be essential reading for all who commission, design, manage, and use buildings—indeed anyone who is interested in a healthy environment.” —Norman Foster As schools and businesses around the world consider when and how to reopen their doors to fight COVID-19, the Director of Harvard’s Healthy Buildings Program and Harvard Business School’s leading expert on urban resilience reveal what you can do to harness the power of your offices, homes, and schools to protect your health—and boost every aspect of your performance and well-being. Ever feel tired during a meeting? That’s because most conference rooms are not bringing in enough fresh air. When that door opens, it literally breathes life back into the room. But there is a lot more acting on your body that you can’t feel or see. From our offices and homes to schools, hospitals, and restaurants, the indoor spaces where we work, learn, play, eat, and heal have an outsized impact on our performance and well-being. They affect our creativity, focus, and problem-solving ability and can make us sick—jeopardizing our future and dragging down profits in the process. Charismatic pioneers of the healthy building movement who have paired up to combine the cutting-edge science of Harvard’s School of Public Health with the financial know-how of the Harvard Business School, Joseph Allen and John Macomber make a compelling case in this urgently needed book for why every business and home owner should make certain relatively low-cost investments a top priority. Grounded in exposure and risk science and relevant to anyone newly concerned about how their surroundings impact their health, Healthy Buildings can help you evaluate the impact of small, easily controllable environmental fluctuations on your immediate well-being and long-term reproductive and lung health. It shows how our indoor environment can have a dramatic impact on a whole host of higher order cognitive functions—including things like concentration, strategic thinking, troubleshooting, and decision-making. Study after study has found that your performance will dramatically improve if you are working in optimal conditions (with high rates of ventilation, few damaging persistent chemicals, and optimal humidity, lighting and noise control). So what would it take to turn that knowledge into action? Cutting through the jargon to explain complex processes in simple and compelling language, Allen and Macomber show how buildings can both expose you to and protect you from disease. They reveal the 9 Foundations of a Healthy Building, share insider tips, and show how tracking what they call “health performance indicators” with smart technology can boost a company’s performance and create economic value. With decades of practice in protecting worker health, they offer a clear way forward right now, and show us what comes next in a post-COVID world. While the “green” building movement introduced important new efficiencies, it’s time to look beyond the four walls—placing the decisions we make around buildings into the larger conversation around development and health, and prioritizing the most important and vulnerable asset of any building: its people.
Healthy Buildings
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Author : Joseph G. Allen
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-18
Healthy Buildings written by Joseph G. Allen and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-18 with Business & Economics categories.
A revised and updated edition of the landmark work the New York Times hailed as “a call to action for every developer, building owner, shareholder, chief executive, manager, teacher, worker and parent to start demanding healthy buildings with cleaner indoor air.” For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too clear, Healthy Buildings breaks down the science and makes a compelling business case for creating healthier offices, schools, and homes. As the COVID-19 crisis brought into sharp focus, indoor spaces can make you sick—or keep you healthy. Fortunately, we now have the know-how and technology to keep people safe indoors. But there is more to securing your office, school, or home than wiping down surfaces. Levels of carbon dioxide, particulates, humidity, pollution, and a toxic soup of volatile organic compounds from everyday products can influence our health in ways people aren’t always aware of. This landmark book, revised and updated with the latest research since the COVID-19 pandemic, lays out a compelling case for more environmentally friendly and less toxic offices, schools, and homes. It features a concise explanation of disease transmission indoors, and provides tips for making buildings the first line of defense. Joe Allen and John Macomber dispel the myth that we can’t have both energy-efficient buildings and good indoor air quality. We can—and must—have both. At the center of the great convergence of green, smart, and safe buildings, healthy buildings are vital to the push for more sustainable urbanization that will shape our future.
Healthy Buildings
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Author : Joseph G. Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Healthy Buildings written by Joseph G. Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Architecture categories.
A healthy building does more than conserve resources: it improves the health and productivity of the people inside. Joseph Allen and John Macomber look at everything from the air we breathe to the water we drink to how light, sound, and materials impact our performance and wellbeing and drive business profit.
Healthy Buildings Healthy People
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Healthy Buildings Healthy People written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Indoor air pollution categories.
Healthy Buildings
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Author : W. J. Holdsworth
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1992
Healthy Buildings written by W. J. Holdsworth and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Air quality categories.
According to the WHO 30per cent of buildings adversely affect the health of the people living or working in them. This book takes the health of a building's users as an essential design element and provides a model for designing out harmful elements and designing in those which are safe and pleasant.
1st International Symposium On Sustainable Healthy Buildings
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Author : International Symposium on Sustainable Healthy Buildings. 1, 2009, Sŏul
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
1st International Symposium On Sustainable Healthy Buildings written by International Symposium on Sustainable Healthy Buildings. 1, 2009, Sŏul and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Design Construction And Operation Of Healthy Buildings
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Author : Demetrios J. Moschandreas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Design Construction And Operation Of Healthy Buildings written by Demetrios J. Moschandreas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Education categories.
Identifies indoor air quality problems and solutions on the global and local scale.
The Healthy Indoor Environment
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Author : Philomena M. Bluyssen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-30
The Healthy Indoor Environment written by Philomena M. Bluyssen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-30 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Despite policy directives, standards and guidelines, indoor environmental quality is still poor in many cases. The Healthy Indoor Environment, winner of the 2016 IDEC Book Award, aims to help architects, building engineers and anyone concerned with the wellbeing of building occupants to better understand the effects of spending time in buildings on health and comfort. In three clear parts dedicated to mechanisms, assessment and analysis, the book looks at different indoor stressors and their effects on wellbeing in a variety of scenarios with a range of tools and methods. The book supports a more holistic way of evaluating indoor environments and argues that a clear understanding of how the human body and mind receive, perceive and respond to indoor conditions is needed. At the national, European and worldwide level, it is acknowledged that a healthy and comfortable indoor environment is important both for the quality of life, now and in the future, and for the creation of truly sustainable buildings. Moreover, current methods of risk assessment are no longer adequate: a different view on indoor environment is required. Highly illustrated and full of practical examples, the book makes recommendations for future procedures for investigating indoor environmental quality based on an interdisciplinary understanding of the mechanisms of responses to stressors. It forms the basis for the development of an integrated approach towards assessment of indoor environmental quality.
Healthy Buildings 88 Planning Physics And Climate Technology For Healthier Buildings
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Author : Statens råd för byggnadsforskning (Sweden)
language : en
Publisher: Swedish
Release Date : 1988
Healthy Buildings 88 Planning Physics And Climate Technology For Healthier Buildings written by Statens råd för byggnadsforskning (Sweden) and has been published by Swedish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with House & Home categories.