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The World Green Building Council has launched a new global campaign on healthy buildings that will cover a range of building types, following last year’s well-received report, Health, Wellbeing and Productivity in Offices.
The project will begin with the retail sector, work on which will be led by UK-GBC, and will be international in scope, ensuring the outputs are relevant for the retail sector globally. Retailers, as well as those who invest in, develop and manage retail property, are increasingly keen to understand the relationship between sustainable store design, the health and wellbeing of staff and customers, and profit.
The project will seek to adapt existing ways of measuring health and wellbeing set out in last year’s report specifically for the retail sector, to help strengthen the business case for sustainable stores, and pilot the metrics in real stores.
John Alker, Director of Policy and Communications and Interim CEO at the UK Green Building Council, said: “Green buildings must not only meet our planetary needs, but also the needs of people and business. That’s why health, wellbeing and productivity in the property sector is such a key topic – it’s essential for making the business case for green buildings. But it’s now time to go from awareness raising to action, and driving real change on the ground.”
Source: World Green Building Council