{"id":42860,"date":"2025-05-06T16:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=42860"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:53:34","slug":"ihbcs-professional-signpost-to-wellbeing-in-buildings-and-dont-forget-deadline-extended-for-ihbcs-heritage-staff-wellbeing-at-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=42860","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Professional\u2019 signpost to \u2018Wellbeing in Buildings\u2019 (and don\u2019t forget DEADLINE EXTENDED for IHBC\u2019s \u2018Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work\u2019 survey, to 22 May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/signpost.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/signpost.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25819\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>image for illustration<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published in January 2025, \u2018<em>Wellbeing in Buildings<\/em>\u2019 looks at the growing importance of wellbeing in the built environment, including information on building assessment schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Designing Buildings Wiki writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The built environment plays a significant role in health and wellbeing. Physical characteristics of the built environment such as functional design, air quality, thermal comfort, lighting, adaptability, future-proofing, access to green spaces and facilities all contribute to building users\u2019 health and wellbeing. This topic guide, written by Sorcha Redmond, considers what wellbeing means, how this has changed over time and what people need for their wellbeing. It looks at how growing recognition of the built environment\u2019s influence on wellbeing has positively influenced approaches to health, mental health and overall wellbeing across the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The guide discusses how wellbeing has featured more prominently in building assessment schemes including BREEAM before becoming central to the WELL and Fitwel schemes. The multiple assessment elements for wellbeing in these schemes are outlined, demonstrating their broad and equitable approach to optimising buildings for wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Wellbeing_in_Buildings_TG_10\/2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download the Guide<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See more and add to the IHBC\u2019s Wellbeing survey (to 22 May) <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=42817\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration Published in January 2025, \u2018Wellbeing in Buildings\u2019 looks at the growing importance of wellbeing in the built environment, including information on building assessment schemes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,18,30,23,29,16,22,191],"class_list":["post-42860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-heritage","tag-planning","tag-skills","tag-wellbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42861,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42860\/revisions\/42861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}