Designers are too often unaware how their design decisions impact on the indoor environment. 90% of our lifetime we spend indoors and researchers have found indoor contamination with critical substances can be as high as 10 times the external contamination level of inner city environments. Health and wellbeing has become more important for clients, and research on how our living environment impacts us has grown over the last decade especially when it comes to air quality. Today there is a wide range of standards that can assist designers to create healthier living environments, including Well, BREEAM, Building Biology and the 2030 Climate Challenge. But how do these standards compare, considering some evolved abroad, to UK Building Regulations, water standards and what are the issues here? Understanding the opportunities of these standards but also their context in terms of legislation, building practice, construction methods and differences in lifestyle is key to delivering more thoughtful spaces that enhance human health and create safe environments for our children to grow up in. This module will provide an overview of the different key healthy building standards currently in use in the UK, their context and how they compare to each other. Using practical examples of completed projects including residential, commercial, leisure, new build and retrofit projects this module will illustrate the issues and interrelationships around heathy building design. The speaker will share his learnings from an architect’s perspective, having specialised in human centered design for over 15 years. Tomas Gaertner Tomas is a qualified architect and a director of SE3D, an RIBA Chartered, design led practice specialising in human centred design. Since 2008, and being one of the first certified Passivhaus designers in the UK, he has been exclusively involved in human centred low energy building design rooted in building physics, including the UK’s first multi-residential certified Passivhaus and also the design of the UK’s first Passivhaus public pool and leisure centre. As a certified Building Biologist and founding director of the Building Biology Association, he oversees their UK seminar programme on healthy building. He is a regular speaker at Green Register events, the UK Passivhaus conference and Ecobuild.RIBA Chartered Members are eligible to use their £200 voucher code for this course. For more information, please refer to our step-by-step instructions, terms and conditions and FAQs. Two ways to book on demand Core CPD topics Core CPD Club Ticket: one single booking for all 10 topics Pay-as-you-go: purchase modules individually in our Learning Programme Please note: Each on demand video will expire 12 months after enrolling onto the module. This course contains content specific to UK regulations/legislation. For more information on this course, or if there are no places available, please email us, or call +44 (0)20 7307 5355 to talk to a member of the team. Please view the Terms and Conditions for more information. Core Curriculum • Health, safety and wellbeing
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