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Christian Huser, in The Built Review

The Built Review is my work on how buildings shape the people who use them, and how to build for them. It is written for asset owners, REIT and infrastructure analysts, developers, planners, policy people and sectoral journalists. Every report names its sources and dates its data, and the position is signed. Reports are currently free.

I built three houses. With the second I planned my dream office. Big desk, good furniture, a view of nature. I sat down and waited for the ideas. They didn't come. Where they came was a loud café in the next village. That made no sense to me at the time. The question of why eventually pulled me into the research on what built environments do to people. That research is the work behind The Built Review.

For more than thirty years I've built or advised companies. International trade, software development, marketing, strategy. Fifteen of those years in wholesale. Writing stayed alongside the work the whole time. While I was advising US firms in increasingly chaotic markets, I built myself a system to read patterns from unstructured market data. I now apply the same system to the research on built environments and the people in them. That research exists, but it sits fragmented across disciplines. I work as an analyst. The job is to read the literature and turn it into something a decision-maker can use.

I do the research work myself. There is no editorial board. I sign what I publish.

I write in English. German is my first language. I work alone, with no partners and no commercial stake in the sectors I cover.

Editorial standard

The bar I commit to. Every report is written and published under these conditions. Any deviation is disclosed at the head of the affected piece.

1. The site carries no advertising. There is no sponsored content and no commissioned coverage. TBR sells access to its own reports and nothing else.
2. No equity or debt positions in any company or asset that has been, is or is plausibly about to be the subject of a TBR report.
3. No paid consulting or retainer with any entity covered in TBR. Speaking and teaching are disclosed and kept to non-covered audiences.
4. Sources are named where the source consents. Where a source has to remain anonymous, the reason is stated in the report.
5. Quantitative claims carry a dated source. Where the figure is a point estimate from a sample, the sample size and method are given.
6. Where two credible data sources disagree, both are reported, and the disagreement is treated as the finding.
7. Every report ends with an explicit consequence section addressed to readers who must decide. Speculation and hypotheses are named as such. Where the evidence is unclear, the default is conservative.
8. Travel and reporting expenses are paid by TBR. Press junkets and embedded access in exchange for coverage are refused.
9. Corrections of fact appear at the foot of the affected report with the date and the change made. A change in judgement is revisited in subsequent reports and named as such.
10. The author and the publication are the same person.

Cadence

Reports appear when there is something worth saying. There is no fixed schedule.

Contact

editor@thebuiltreview.com. Press, speaking and corrections to the same address.