Healthy Buildings - How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick or Keep You Well

Buildings can make us sick or keep us well. Diseases and toxins course through indoor spaces, making us ill. Meanwhile, better air quality and light levels improve productivity. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has us focused more than ever on indoor air quality, Healthy Buildings shows how much we have to gain from human-centered design.

About the author

Joseph G. Allen is Director of Harvard’s Healthy Buildings Program and Associate Professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. A renowned forensic investigator of “sick buildings” and frequent keynote speaker, he advises leading companies around the world on healthy building strategies. A key voice in communicating the science of COVID transmission to the public, he has appeared on CBS, CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg, and has written many influential pieces for the Washington Post, New York Times, Atlantic, and USA Today. He is Chair of The Lancet COVID-19 Commission Task Force on Safe Work, Safe School, and Safe Travel.John D. Macomber is Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School and a world leader on the financing of resilience. He is the author of dozens of HBS case studies on infrastructure projects, focusing on office buildings in the United States, housing in India, water management in Mexico, and private sector–led new cities in Asia.

Summary

Buildings can make us sick or keep us well. Diseases and toxins course through indoor spaces, making us ill. Meanwhile, better air quality and light levels improve productivity. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has us focused more than ever on indoor air quality, Healthy Buildings shows how much we have to gain from human-centered design.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph G Allen, Joseph G. Allen, Allen Joseph G., A. S. Barwich, John D. Macomber
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2022
• EAN: 9780674278363
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27836-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Social sciences, law, business > Business; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, MEDICAL / Occupational & Industrial Medicine, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, Environmental Economics, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Environmental medicine, Property & real estate, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Property and real estate, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design