Green Buildings and Health… : DASH Story 2016-05-09
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I am an environmental health practitioner involved in sustainable urban development. I work for AECOM, a multinational professional services firm, in their Sydney office, Australia. The interaction of humans and the built interest is of great interest to me and a significant part of my day-to-day work involves working with developers and design teams to optimise buildings for improved health and well-being outcomes. Having information to justify health-based interventions is critical to support evidence-based design. Beyond the well-documented benefits around occupant satisfaction, productivity and reduced absenteeism, I am particularly interested in how better buildings contribute to the the broader wider public health agenda—especially how they can help in the longer term reducing prevalence of disease.
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