The need for a wellness integrator to ensure healthy buildings and businesses

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Lockhart, Victoria Taub, Mallory Aguilar, Ann Marie
Copyright Year	2017
Description	Workplace wellness programmes represent a $6 billion-a-year industry, but the success of these has proved variable. While some may be sceptical of the corporate world's interest in health and well-being, there is a mounting movement of research demonstrating the value in strategies that deliver healthy buildings and businesses. Technology is enabling a citizen-science movement that empowers individuals with the data to start demanding healthier environments, and the duty of care is falling on building owners, designers, and operators to deliver. A fundamental sign of a healthy building will be its speed and willingness to openly disclose and display actual performance. Systems that provide all this functionality do exist in the market but they tend to take the business-as-usual approach to Building Management Systems. The open approach has been used in building the furniture itself, using open 3-D design software and rapid prototype manufacturing techniques. Digital technology is set to transform the interaction people have with their buildings and their performance. Book Name: Creating the Productive Workplace
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Ending Page	334
Page Count	10
Starting Page	325
DOI	10.4324/9781315658834-21
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2017-09-22
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Creating the Productive Workplace Criminology and Penology Functionality Healthy Buildings Buildings and Businesses Deliver Healthy Year Industry Building Management
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter