Wellbeing from buildings explained

This RIBA Approved seminar/CPD is concerned with typical design challenges in the evolving school environment and provides an overview of third-party studies that have considered the impact school design has on its occupants. 

Like all mammals, we are relatively fragile beings, so we have come up with various strategies, to protect ourselves from the outside environment.

The building environment, which acts as a filter between the inside and the outside, gradually became more sophisticated.

Though we are now able to provide adequate artificial lighting day and night, it is well established that daylight and a view to the outside are essential to our wellbeing.

A ‘comfortable’ acoustic environment can be defined by the quality of sounds we want to hear and the absence of sounds we don’t want to hear.

As pollution levels have risen, attention has been given to the threats of outdoor air pollution on human health and the environment. It is only in the last few decades that attention has been paid to indoor air quality.

A new technology added to Thistle PureFinish plaster and Gyptone and Rigitone ceiling products.

It is designed specifically to decompose formaldehyde emissions into non-harmful inert compounds, thus eliminating the risk of re-emission.

Proplas provides a stylish and practical alternative to more traditional methods of decoration such as tiles or paint.

Cast iron above ground drainage systems kitemark approved to BS EN877.

A high impact-resistant partition system for use where a more durable solution is required.

Feel comfortable and cool regardless of the day and weather. Experience the benefits of natural daylight without glare. Feel its impact on your productivity in an office, your learning process in a school or university or the healing process in hospitals.

Standard glass substrates offered by Saint-Gobain Building Glass, for maximising light transmittance and increased neutral aesthetics.