All Human factors articles – Page 7
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FeaturesWellbeing in healthcare: Ceilings and healing
Ceilings are one of the quickest and most cost-effective ways to promote recovery, as Graham Taylor, sales and marketing director at Zentia
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OpinionPut self-interest aside and focus on the future of the profession
The response in some quarters to the Future Architects Front’s concerns reflects a profession with work to do to improve its practices and image, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionLearning from lockdown: We need to talk about the design of care homes
With care homes in the news for tragic reasons it is time to imagine a different future, says Julia Park
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FeaturesHow to design well for people with dementia
Architects need to include safe outdoor spaces when they design senior living schemes, writes Robin Callister
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FeaturesCPD 11 2019: Lighting, wellbeing and productivity
This CPD, sponsored by Helvar, will look at the issues around the effectiveness of good lighting systems
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FeaturesCPD 7 2019: Specifying suspended ceilings for health and wellbeing
This CPD, sponsored by Armstrong, focuses on how a working environment can promote health and wellbeing through suspended ceiling solutions
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FeaturesWellbeing: 22 Bishopsgate, London
The team behind the City of London’s latest tower is putting employee health and happiness at the top of the design agenda, with health-food bars, meditation areas and even forest bathing all part of the mix. Amanda Birch reports on the UK’s first major WELL-certified new-build project
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TechnicalWellbeing registration: Europe's first project
There is now an international standard for measuring how a building impacts on its users’ health and wellbeing. Ike Ijeh looks at how Studio Ben Allen Architects’ One Carter Lane became the first European project to receive the accreditation
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TechnicalHow to design for people who hear with their eyes
As a $60m international design competition is launched by Gallaudet, Washington’s specialist university for the deaf, its campus architect Hansel Bauman shares insights from a decade of research into DeafSpace design
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FeaturesA day at the office: Your guide to human happiness
How can you use design to actively influence and improve people’s lives? British Land is using its own headquarters as a test bed for incorporating wellbeing principles that it hopes will foster a happier, more productive workforce
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AnalysisGet happy: Wellbeing in buildings
There is a strong body of evidence of the tangible ways that building design can improve wellbeing. Now an increasing number of major clients are realising that this is not just good for employees’ health – it’s good for business. Katie Puckett reports
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NewsStudy looks into benefits of green offices
World Green Building Council launches study to measure the health and productivity benefits of sustainable office buildings