Healthy workspaces
It works, naturally
Communicating health benefits
dr. ir. Dewi Hartkamp
New tools & market pull
Peter Oei

Innovation program ‘’value-full’’ green
Public Private Partnership

Program Healthy workspaces
• Developing tools and instruments
• Organizing market pull & green deal
• Technical system development

Targets 2018 - 2019
• Communicate benefits of healthy workspaces
to HRM, COO, Facility management
• Quantify financial effects (data)
• Develop solutions e.g. ‘clean air guarantee’
• Start in The Netherlands, scale up in Europe

The world of HRM
Mental Health (1 in 7 Burnout) -> HRM resonsibility
Situation NL
• Stress taboo...personal problems
• Easy replacement.....
EU Health agency: 4 billion €
Prevention
Knowledge gap value of green
Education & training
Innovation: Chief Happy Officers

Brain = linking worlds
Social science (HRM)
Physical & mental health
Workplace

Nature Fix
Kaplan-Ulrich-Wilson...
Evolution & Stress response
Neuroscience
Smell, sound, sight (patterns)
Bringing it inside:
Nature-inspired integral system design

Adjust message to target group

Integral approach
• Plants
• Light
• Food
• Activity
Behavior
change

New tools for engagement
different target groups
• Animation
• Calculation tool
• Manifest (CSR) / Green deal
• Feedback employees app
• Does your boss love you?

Calculation tool

Market pull - strategy
• Pilots renowned companies: Rabobank,
Ministries
• Government policy workspaces
• Green deal for offices
• Green interior landscapers, (biophilic) architects,
researchers join
• Bottom up: Does your boss love you ?

Implementation challenges
• How to convince office management to
participate?
• Who’s sending the message?
• Complexity of organisations

Technical system development
• Feedback system
• Cloudgarden ventilation
• Greennest Towers
• Air cleaning small hanging
systems

Feedback employees
App by Office Vitae
• 3D visualisation office
• Regular questionaires

Cloudgarden
• Dynamic ventilation
and lighting
• Data collection
• Circular green wall

Greennest Tower
Clairy sensors air quality
Ventilation at threshold
Air cleaning:
• Microbes
• Absorption by moisture
• Leaves of the plants

Greennest Tower
Capacity: 35 m2

Development of hanging systems
• Tech unit with sensors and ventilation
• Ventilation direction -> convection
• Effective evaporation system
• Wooden front
custom designed

Join international campaign
• Use tools (2019)
• Health as driving factor
• Use new systems & marketing concepts

Join us to create healthy work spaces!
This project is supported by a grant from the European Fund
for Regional Development of the European Union and the
province of North-Holland, the Netherlands.