Wellbeing

What surrounds us matters. Research and experience shows a complex relationship that exists between the mind and the body with a direct link to health and well-being. Holistic planning and design is necessary as it considers and influences both human and environmental health. Our design process focuses on wellbeing across scales – from individual spaces within buildings to buildings themselves, and beyond to the context of neighborhoods and communities.

Our multidisciplinary approach enables us to broadly look at indoor environment quality. We assess ventilation, temperature and humidity, air filtration and air flow. We maximize the amount of useful daylight through both architectural and lighting design, optimizing for variables such as access to usable daylight, ability of users to adjust lighting to meet their unique personal requirements and reinforcement of the circadian system.

Using data to validate human health and comfort metrics is equally important as evaluating energy performance. Our design experts evaluate modeling and performance analyses to find integrated solutions that result in high performance buildings without sacrificing human-centric design practices. We leverage the latest design technologies to evaluate a building's operational performance simulating daylighting, glare potential, and thermal comfort. We take information learned through in depth analysis sharing across our integrated design team to optimize performance.

Read more in our Sustainability Action Plan.