Healthy Buildings : : How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well / / John D. Macomber, Joseph G. Allen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Allen, Joseph G.,; Macomber, John D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

A revised and updated edition of the landmark work the New York Times hailed as “a call to action for every developer, building owner, shareholder, chief executive, manager, teacher, worker and parent to start demanding healthy buildings with cleaner indoor air.”For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too clear, Healthy Buildings breaks down the science and makes a compelling business case for creating healthier offices, schools, and homes.As the COVID-19 crisis brought into sharp focus, indoor spaces can make you sick—or keep you healthy. Fortunately, we now have the know-how and technology to keep people safe indoors. But there is more to securing your office, school, or home than wiping down surfaces. Levels of carbon dioxide, particulates, humidity, pollution, and a toxic soup of volatile organic compounds from everyday products can influence our health in ways people aren’t always aware of.This landmark book, revised and updated with the latest research since the COVID-19 pandemic, lays out a compelling case for more environmentally friendly and less toxic offices, schools, and homes. It features a concise explanation of disease transmission indoors, and provides tips for making buildings the first line of defense. Joe Allen and John Macomber dispel the myth that we can’t have both energy-efficient buildings and good indoor air quality. We can—and must—have both. At the center of the great convergence of green, smart, and safe buildings, healthy buildings are vital to the push for more sustainable urbanization that will shape our future.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the 2022 Edition: Healthy Buildings as the Foundation of a Health-First Era -- Preface: Why This Book? -- PART I The Case for Healthy Buildings -- CHAPTER ONE Who Are We and Why Should You Care? -- CHAPTER TWO The Global Mega-changes Shaping Our World, Our Buildings, and Us -- CHAPTER THREE Why Are We Ignoring the 90 Percent? -- CHAPTER FOUR Putting the Building to Work for You -- CHAPTER FIVE Creating and Capturing Value -- PART II A Healthy Building Strategy -- CHAPTER SIX The 9 Foundations of a Healthy Building -- CHAPTER SEVEN Our Global Chemical Experiment -- CHAPTER EIGHT Buildings as a First Line of Defense against Covid and Other Airborne Infectious Diseases -- CHAPTER NINE Healthy Building Certification Systems -- CHAPTER TEN Moving from KPIs to HPIs -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Beyond the Four Walls -- CHAPTER TWELVE What’s Now and What’s Next? -- Conclusion: Buildings, Business, Health, and Wealth -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index