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Healthy buildings: toward a new awareness

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Healthy buildings: toward a new awareness

29 October 2024
The paper proposes a new framework for healthy buildings, addressing gaps in knowledge transfer and offering a holistic, balanced approach to promote well-being and sustainability in the building sector.
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The paper titled 'Creating a comprehensive framework for design, construction and management of healthy buildings' highlights the lack of knowledge transfer between research, practice, and policy in the building sector regarding healthy buildings and the absence of a standard definition.

To address this, it presents a new framework based on five dimensions: improving health, meeting human needs, sustainability, resilience, and empowerment. Tested across 12 European building case studies (based in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden), the framework uses 24 indicators to assess projects. 

Despite challenges like time, cost, and data availability, the framework provides a balanced approach to promoting well-being and sustainability, offering guidance for stakeholders to integrate healthy building principles into their projects.

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Essam Elnagar, Caroline Düvier, Zuhaib Batra, Jens Christoffersen, Corinne Mandin, Marcel Schweiker, Pawel Wargocki
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