What is the WELL Health-Safety Rating and how does it facilitate the safe return to shared spaces?
The WELL Health-Safety Rating is a mark launched by the International WELL Building Institute, after a group of almost 600 public health officials, virologists, government officials, academics, business leaders, architects, designers, building scientists, and real estate professionals met with the aim of helping to guide a concrete response […]
What is Lean Construction?
Lean Construction is a new working philosophy with countless competitive advantages, but how did this trend come about? Towards the end of the 20th century, Toyota captured 40% of the Japanese market by applying a new philosophy to production in the automotive industry. This philosophy delivered better quality at a lower cost, with shorter lead times and by eliminating […]
What is LEED certification and how can it help make your building sustainable and state-of-the-art?
According to data presented at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, the commercial and residential construction sector accounts for 39% of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, generates 30% of solid waste and is responsible for 20% of water pollution. The influence of our buildings on the future of our society is, […]
What is WELL Certification and how can your building promote health and wellbeing?
Article updated for WELL V2 Certification: April 2021. Did you know that we spend 90% of our lives indoors? Did you know that the air in these spaces is 2 to 5 times more polluted than the air outside? Every day, dozens of articles are published containing compelling data about our relationship with […]
How to improve your company’s productivity through wellness
“Sometimes I get the feeling that my employees are just waiting for the clock to strike half-past six in the evening to get up and leave.” That's what my friend Toni told me recently. Toni had just been promoted to manager at a multinational company based in Barcelona. According to 2015 data, countries […]