WELL Concept #7: Mind Are your occupants in their comfort zone? The last of the seven concepts in the WELL Building Standard® is WELL for Mind, which focuses on the mind-body connection—the central role mental health has on physical well-being and vice versa. WELL for Mind …
WELL Concept #6: Comfort Are your occupants in their comfort zone? The state of being comfortable is crucial to mood, performance and productivity. In today’s environment, there are myriad challenges to keeping building occupants comfortable, including external and internal noise and odors, heating and cooling demands, the …
Local Law 97: Act Now By Justin Baker, Managing Director, Lilker Energy Solutions The recent passage of New York City’s Climate Mobilization Act, Local Law 97 (LL97), sets increasingly stringent limits on buildings’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which make up nearly three-quarters of all emissions citywide. …
WELL Concept #5: Fitness Fitness is defined by the Centers for Disease Control as “the ability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and alertness, without undue fatigue, and with ample energy to enjoy leisure-time pursuits and respond to emergencies.” By now, we all know that …
From Lab Simulation to Practice, Touro Dental School Innovates It’s not often you get to design a state-of-the-art dental school. In fact, in New York State, this unique opportunity presented itself to Lilker engineers just once in a generation−with the opening of Tour College of Dental …
WELL Concept #4: Light Beyond our visual perception of the world, the effect of light on health and well-being is an age-old precept and one that has been well documented over time. According to our resident expert, Lilker Lighting Group (LLG) Director David Cyr, lighting plays …
WELL Concept #3: Nourishment Does This Building Make Me Look Fat? Kidding aside, there is a relationship between the built environment and how nutritionally healthy you are. In fact, Nourishment is one of the seven concepts outlined in the Well Building Standard®, which explores how design, operations …
WELL Concept #2: Water Delivery of clean drinking water, a privilege many of us take for granted, is a primary function of modern building systems. It is also one of the seven foundational concepts of the WELL Building Standard® for optimizing human health and well-being. In this new installment …
WELL Concept #1: Air Welcome to the second installment in our series on the WELL Building Standard®, the new paradigm that assesses the built environment’s impact on human health and well-being across seven concepts: Air, Water, Light, Comfort, Fitness, Nourishment and Mind. In this installment, we focus on …
