simon corbey, msc mrics, associate director …...other drivers – health and wellbeing.… revised...
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What is a healthy building?
Simon Corbey, MSc MRICS, Associate Director
Alliance for Sustainable Building Products
What is a Healthy Product?
Simple question – complex, multi-faceted, non-
binary answer
Long personal journey for me…
Natural Finishes Specialist at Construction
Resources in 1999
all sorts of complaints… including hospitalisation
Good for you; Good for the planet
Health and wellbeing.…
The best buildings are life enhancing and support our
physical and mental health:
Great design and healthy products enable delivery of a
healthy internal environment - meaning good indoor air
quality, natural lighting as well as excellent thermal and
acoustic comfort, etc, etc.
We showcase best practice, inform good design and
champion healthy products and systems.
Breaking news! Professor Stephen Holgate,
Royal College of Physicians announced as
Keynote speaker at ASBP Healthy Buildings
Conference and Expo 2018, 14/02/18 at UCL.
Papers
Every Breath We Take - Royal College
of Physicians, February 2016
Better Homes, Better Air, Better Health -
April 2017
UKIEG Report - Healthy Indoor
Environments: Challenges for
Policymakers
APPG Healthy Buildings and Homes
Green Paper
Health and wellbeing.…
Described as a megatrend by Saint-Gobain
Cullinan Studio win new HQ for client; with a deep
health and wellbeing brief
Dyson Neo-Natal Centre in Bath designed by Feilden
Clegg Bradley Studios
Business refocusing sustainability through the lens of
health and wellbeing
Business case well made
Typical business overheads and the impact of a
10% variation
Other drivers – Health and wellbeing.…
Revised BB101 – VOCs and MDF fibres
NICE – revised iaq guidelines
NHS Healthy New Towns
Well Building Standard - Alan Fogarty of Cundall’s
Natureplus and Baubook
Google and Portico
Ease of monitoring
Sources and types of indoor air pollution.
Every Breath We Take, RCP, February 2016
Introducing Indoor Air Quality
The relation between health and iaq is sometimes
described as a paradigm or a wicked problem
Paucity of data – especially in the UK
CO2 usually a marker for iaq
900+ chemicals harmful to health – VOCs, NOx, PM 2.5, 5
and 10 etc
Molds, pollen, biological contaminants
Risks to human health range from
discomfort to cancer
UKCMB update
UK centre for moisture in buildings; Re-
launched October 2017
Buildings which are too damp or too dry can
be bad for occupants’ health
Video for existing homeowners
http://www.ukcmb.org
Relative Humidity Control
Dynamic sweet spot
The ASBP and its French and English partners have been selected to
carry out the Sustainable Bio&Waste Resources for Construction
(SB&WRC) project as part of the Interreg (Channel) program.
The aim is to develop prototypes of construction materials based on
bio-resources and recycled waste.
The ASBP is pleased to be co-leader for communication for the project
and we will feed back all the latest project developments over the next two
years through seminars and newsletters.
Gary Newman will also lend his expertise for the design of the prototypes,
having had 20 years of experience in developing new bio-based products.
Many thanks
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Natural Fibre Insulation 23/11 17.00-19.00 at our offices N1 7RU
Healthy Products People Planet Expo 14/2
Simon Corbey
www.asbp.org.uk