Wellbeing and buildings
In 2012, Dodge et al proposed that wellbeing could be defined as ‘…when individuals have the psychological, social and physical resources they need to meet a particular psychological, social and/or physical challenge’.
The 2013 Measuring National Well-being programme suggested that the factors most strongly associated with personal well-being are:
- Health.
- Employment status.
- Relationship status.
Of these three factors, health had the strongest relationship with wellbeing.
The Measuring National Well-being national debate identified a range of other less significant factors associated with personal well-being, including:
- Economic security.
- Job satisfaction.
- Work-life balance.
- Education and training.
- Local and natural environment.
Articles about wellbeing on Designing Buildings Wiki include:
- Daylight benefits in healthcare buildings.
- Integrated modelling, simulation and visualisation (MSV) for sustainable built healing environments (BHEs).
- A measure of net well-being that incorporates the effect of housing environmental impacts.
- Well-being and regeneration: Reflections from Carpenters Estate.
- Anatomy of low carbon retrofits: evidence from owner-occupied superhomes.
- The impact of the design of the Psychiatric inpatient facility on perceptions of Carer wellbeing.
- Creating strong communities – measuring social sustainability in new housing development.
- The design of extra care housing for older people and its impact on wellbeing: The East Sussex perspective.
- The daylight factor.
- Ubiquitous sensors to assess people’s energy consumption and wellbeing in domestic environments.
- Airtightness of energy efficient buildings.
- Adapting 1965-1980 semi-detached dwellings in the UK to reduce summer overheating and the effect of the 2010 Building Regulations.
- Transitioning to eco-cities: Reducing carbon emissions while improving urban welfare.
- A case study of adopting BIT-Kit: A method uncovering the impact buildings have on people.
- The real cost of poor housing.
- Health and wellbeing impacts of natural and artificial lighting.
- Health and wellbeing at Kings Cross.
- Wellbeing and creativity in workplace design - case studies.
Most western developed countries now measure wellbeing as part of their national statistics. The UK reported in the 2013-2015 report "Those who identify as gay or lesbian, or bisexual report lower well-being than the UK average for all personal well-being measures. This difference is largest for feelings of anxiety."
[edit] Related articles on Designing Buildings
- All about wellness.
- Are we doing the right thing? Shaping well-being into the future of our urban communities.
- Assessing health and wellbeing in buildings.
- Biophilic design.
- BRE wellbeing research paper competition.
- BS ISO 45003 Psychological health and safety at work - managing psychosocial risks.
- Buildingomics.
- Building related illness.
- Building services and health risk resilient buildings.
- Building use studies (BUS).
- Changing attitudes towards the mental wellbeing of early career Architectural Technology professionals.
- Construction leadership for mental health.
- COVID-19 and mental health within construction firms.
- Environment.
- Human centric.
- Human comfort in buildings.
- Indoor air quality.
- Indoor environmental quality.
- Maggie's Cancer Centre, Manchester.
- Measuring the wellbeing benefits of interior materials.
- Mental health and wellbeing.
- Mental health in the construction industry.
- Seasonal affective disorder SAD.
- Senior living facilities.
- Sick building syndrome.
- Stop Make a Change SMAC-20.
- TG10 2016 At a glance, wellbeing.
- The Flourish Model to enhance wellbeing.
- The full cost of poor housing.
- The real impact of late payment.
- Thermal comfort and wellbeing.
- Understanding mental health in the built environment.
- Wellbeing and creativity in workplace design - case studies.
- Wellbeing considerations for property managers.
- WELL and BREEAM align.
- WELL Building Standard.
- What we know about wellbeing.
- 2019 Wellness and biophilia symposium.
[edit] External references
- Measuring National Well-being programme.
- Dodge, R., Daly, A., Huyton, J., & Sanders, L. (2012). The challenge of defining wellbeing. International Journal of Wellbeing, 2(3), 222-235.
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