Workplace 11 Workplace
Why open-plan offices break concentration
In open plan the work staff say they lose to noise can double, and speech intelligibility predicts it better than the sound level.
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Workplace 06 Workplace
Checking the biophilia business case
Read at the primary sources, the case for nature in buildings is narrower than advertised and strong enough to act on.
Healthcare 10 Healthcare
Hospital noise, still above the WHO floor
Behaviour and training cut ward noise by 4.8 dB. For tunable lighting on a general ward the evidence is not there yet.
Workplace 04 Workplace
Germany has no cost total for its indoor air
France priced indoor air pollution, Britain poor housing and Australia indoor mould. In Germany, researchers have costed radon and secondhand smoke, and no agency has added up the rest. I argue that the missing cost total is a political choice.
Housing 02 Housing
Insurers don't look at the building
Health insurers price age, tobacco and rating area. Building quality is in no model, and the law is only half the reason.
Urban 03 Urban
How Singapore enforces greening
Singapore withholds the occupation permit until the planting is signed off, and the most cited showcase numbers come from the architects themselves.
Housing 09 Housing
Fear of eviction makes people ill
Where US states blocked eviction notices outright, renters' psychological distress fell by 12.6 per cent. Britain blocked the same route on 1 May 2026, and 697 rental homes a day are being listed for sale.
Workplace 07 Workplace
Four design choices that change office work
Even under conditions counted as acceptable, air quality takes 5 to 10 per cent off performance. Speech disrupts memory in the open plan, light shifts sleep and circadian timing and the view evidence stays thin.
Education 08 Education
Which classroom conditions affect learning
Where the evidence on classroom air, acoustics, light and green is strong, where it is thin, and what to measure before the build.
Healthcare 05 Healthcare
How the hospital room affects recovery
Bright hospital wards cut analgesic use by 22 per cent.
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