Research Blog

Why Healthy Lighting in the Workplace Matters

What if you knew that working in a windowless office, you might sleep about 46 minutes less every night?

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How Sleep Can Improve Creativity by 10x

Lore has it that a dream of a snake biting its own tail gave 19th c. German chemist Friedrich August Kekulé an insight about the hexagonal structure of the benzene ring.

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The WELL Mind Advisory: Psychological Health in Buildings

Tyrone Yang serves as an advisor for the Mind Concept of the WELL Building Standard.

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Healthy Building Walkthrough: The ASID Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

In this article, we walk through this WELL-certified space and discuss the financial and human performance benefits of healthy buildings.

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Dr. David Price: Straightforward Rules to Protect Yourself from Covid-19

This talk provides straightforward advice directly from a doctor who is treating the disease on the frontline.

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How Charitable Involvement Helps Organizations and Individuals

This year, we participated in Operation Santa, the U.S. Post Office’s heartwarming campaign to fulfill wish letters from kids with presents from anonymous gift givers. 

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Disease Mitigation in Buildings: Comparing Increased Ventilation to Air Filtration

We’re been asked by architects and owners how to manage ventilation to reduce the spread of disease in their buildings.  Here is a very interesting study comparing the costs for two strategies.

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How to Improve Air Quality in Buildings

How buildings manage air quality can impact health and the spread of disease. Especially during the COVID pandemic, we see heightened public awareness of this connection. Here are the basic strategies we employ to improve air quality in buildings. 

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Near and Dear: Buildings and Spaces Affect Who We Meet, Work with and Marry

Some quantitative studies show how physical space can impact our work and social connections.

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