Towards Net-Positive Healthy Facilities
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Presentation for Leeds Sustainability Institute Green Vision programme on thoughts for progressing towards net-positive healthy facilities. Based on 'salutogenesis' thinking of focusing on factors that improve health, and the Living Building Challenge Health and Happiness imperatives of doing more good, not just incrementally less bad.
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Towards Net-Positive Healthy Facilities
- 1. M A R T I N B R O W N F A I R S N A P E G R E E N V I S I O N U K L I V I N G B U I L D I N G C O L L A B O R A T I V E F U T U R E S T O R A T I V E INSPIRATIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR A NEW SUSTAINABILITY Towards Net-Positive Healthy Facilities
- 2. The BBC reported today that asbestos is still present in as many as 86% UK schools. Over the last ten years, 158 teachers have died from mesothelioma. #FOI, Industry Today, March 12th 2015
- 3. 1930 The UK Court “date of knowledge” 2000 HSE date for buildings which could contain asbestos
- 5. “in the late '80s, NASA & Associated Landscape Contractors of America identified several plants that filter out common volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to help clean indoor air which is typically far more polluted than outdoor air”
- 6. Healthy Buildings Network, 2015
- 7. SALUTOGENESIS: net positive health Focus on factors that support health and wellness …. rather than on reducing the factors that cause health problems Soo Downe, Martin Brown
- 10. The word "Biophilia" literally means "love of nature" and focuses on the deep affinity between humans and nature.
- 11. In 1984 Researcher Roger Ulrich found that patients whose hospital window overlooked nature recorded shorter postoperative stays, required less potent pain medication, and evaluated their nurses more positively than patients who looked onto a brick wall.
- 13. “Low-impact design as exemplified by LEED* standards rarely enhances people’s physical and mental wellbeing when it fails to address the beneficial experience of nature” (Kellert,S. 2008) *Read BREEAM
- 15. “Interestingly, if we take a step back and look at our current standards, targets and measurements around sustainability, they are almost all concentrated on our use of energy, when in fact only 1% of a company’s outgoings are related to energy usage, while a staggering 90% are related to staffing costs” (Oliver Heath at Ecobuild 2015).
- 16. “Once something exists we can no longer say its impossible” Denis Hayes, Bullitt Foundation
- 18. Can we afford to continue being just less bad? Is it not a matter of corporate social responsibility to design & build with a focus on better, net positive health and wellbeing? Every design, every building, a Biophilia Plan
- 19. “We will have the ability in a very short time to create buildings that are literally as complex as a plant or a flower, that are biophilic in the true sense of the word.” Paul Hawken, Trim Tab ILFI
- 20. F U T U R E S T O R A T I V E INSPIRATIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR A NEW SUSTAINABILITY www.fairsnape.com/futurestorative M A R T I N B R O W N @ F A I R S N A P E F A I R S N A P E @ G M A I L . C O M “It is time to think differently: Its time to Heal the Future”
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- For most people in the developing world, life is spent mainly inside. For example, the average American spends 90% of their life indoors. Yet our DNA is rooted in nature – far vistas, the wind blowing across our skin, and raindrops falling on our head. Over time, the notion of shelter has become warped, where the basics of who we are at our core – human animals – has been lost. Our basic animal needs – fresh air, daylight, views to nature – have in many buildings become supplanted with a more mechanistic vision of our humanity. This is only compounded by the toxicity of our building interiors, which leave us unhealthy and diminished, rather than sustained and renewed. The LBC seeks to right this balance with buildings which promote our health, and help make us happy.
- Biologist EO Wilson coined the term “Biophilia” in 1984 and defines it as “the innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes.” He suggests that “to the degree that we come to understand other organisms, we will place greater value on them and on ourselves.” Subsequent research suggests that this connection became biologically encoded in humans over the course of evolution, and is therefore critical to human comfort. However, it is difficult to capture the essence of this empirical Imperative. As a means to translate what we observe, Stephen Kellert, renowned social ecologist and author on biophilia, offers six elements of biophilic design to help guide the design process.
- Hello, and thank you for your interest in the Living Building Challenge, a program of the International Living Future Institute that was publicly launched in November 2006. It is the most stringent and complete sustainable building philosophy and standard in the world.