Driving Sustainable Buildings Through Occupant Health & Wellbeing Memoori Talks to Christopher Pottage from Skanska UK about his data-driven approach to the application of healthy buildings metrics.

1. Driving Healthy, Sustainable Buildings
Chris Pottage- Skanska UK
Sustainable and Healthy Buildings Officer

2. Healthy Buildings: Introduction
Agenda
 HB Background & Drivers
 Business case & metrics
 WELL Building Standard
 Healthy FM Pilots: Healthcare
 The Role of IoT
 Challenges

3. 90%
Of our time indoors
8.5%
Shorter hospital stays
10 X worse
AQ indoors than
outdoors
15 minutes
More sleep per night
15- 40%
Increase in retail sales
18%
More productive
employees
Buildings have a profound impact on their occupants…

4. Drivers: Stoddart Review
People 90: Property 7…
Not enough organisations measure
workplace effectiveness…
Workplace should be appraised
annually like an employee…
Workplace can be a barrier to higher
productivity…
If we can’t measure, we can’t manage &
improve…
53% of office occupants state their office
enables them to work productively-
Leesman 2016.

5. Business Case & Metrics
Health, Wellbeing & Productivity in Offices, WGBC 2014

6.  266 tCO2
 £71,000 avoided utility cost
(actual)
 Great perceptions &
engagement
 C. £28,000 absence saving
 8.1 year ‘Green’ payback
 Basis for new POE template
Skanska Office Project: Bentley POE & Case Study

7. Skanska: Lmi vs Absence

8. Benefits for the tenant:
• Health, wellbeing & productivity
• Brand publicity/ values
• Industry recognized benchmark
• Improve business performance
Benefits for the owner/ developer:
• Better rental yields, higher occupancy rates?
• Increased asset value?
The WELL Building Standard®
• Designed to work in harmony with
environmental standards
• Applicable to all building types
• Greater focus on operation than other
standards

9.  Energy & HB audits
 Rating for every room
 IEQ monitors confirm perceptions
 Financial & Human metrics- value
 Proposals based on impact
 Enhance skills & services
 Power BI data model
Healthy FM: Energy & Healthy Building Audits- Healthcare

10. EHB Audits: Project 1- Hospital Estate

11. Ward 5/6- High absence: Low EHB rating
The top 5 wards for absence
account for £0.5m of the £1.15m
12 month cost.
These wards also have poor EHB
ratings.

12. Examples of Findings
• Very low humidity in certain Wards
• Avoidable poor thermal comfort
• Ambient lighting issues
• Several easy wins
• Building fabric/ layout opportunities
Issues which affect IEQ, user
experience & energy usage
Enhanced business case
for ECMs
Prioritised strategy for
investment in your estate
£53k of no/low cost
savings
Further £1m of invest-to-
save savings

13. EHB Audits: Project 2- Hospital Estate
• >43,500 data points
• >2,900 lines
• 15 data categories
• 2016, 2017, 2018
• Detailed locational data:
• Indicators of IEQ
• Indicators of Energy Behaviour
• Rating scale from -2 to 2
• Excel/ Power BI model
• Visualised Outputs
• One click update/ drill-down

14. Project 2: Absence vs Audit Data
AbsenceCost
HB Rating
Pharmacy
Maternity
KTC
Endoscopy
A&E
EAU
Mortuary
Med Ed
PathologyT&D
FM

15. WELL/ Healthy FM
WELL Certified Buildings
1. Compliant WELL FM
2. Enhanced WELL FM
3. Pre-PV service
4. Additional services
Existing Buildings
1. Principles of WELL
2. IAQ monitoring
3. HB metrics &
recommendations
4. EHB audits
5. ‘Healthy FM’

16. Evolving tech: A confusing World
 Identify objectives & scale
 Limitations & security
 Own/ collect/ analyse/ report
 Messages/ actions/ opportunities
 Ethical issues/ risks
 Just a sensor or end to end?
 Monitoring standards?

17. Challenges
1. Fragmented value chain
2. How to promote healthy workspaces for
the majority? (Not just WELL Buildings)
3. How to apply technology solutions?
4. Processing & interpreting data
5. Developing effective operational
solutions

18. Thank you!