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Evidence base for better buildings

How designing for wellbeing can drive productivity and return. For architecture, real estate, workplace, HR and all who depend on facts.

By Christian Huser, Analyst

Working documents from 15,347 scientific studies:

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18,180 studysheets, written for non-scientists. Referenced to source and ready to cite.Browse studysheets

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Open-plan office with several people working at shared wooden desks, one man on the phone in the foreground while others focus on their screens

Latest report — Workplace

Why open-plan offices break concentration

When a workplace moves into open plan, the work that staff lose to noise can double, and how clearly nearby speech carries predicts that cost better than sheer volume.

01 Jul 2026 13 min 25 sources confident
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Person seen from behind working at a desk in front of a panoramic window overlooking a forest

Workplace

Checking the biophilia business case

10 Jun 2026 12 min
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Empty modern hospital room with vital-signs monitors, IV stands and a steel sliding door, daylight from a window across the unoccupied bed.

Healthcare

Hospital noise, still above the WHO floor

10 Jun 2026 12 min
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Silhouette of a person sitting at a floor-to-ceiling window with a view over Potsdamer Platz in Berlin

Workplace

Germany hasn't priced its indoor air

10 Jun 2026 12 min
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Tiled facade of an apartment block with net curtains in the windows and a resident looking out from an upper floor

Housing

Insurers don't look at the building

10 Jun 2026 11 min
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