Healthy Homes Made Simple Learn from the Passive House Design experts

What are the best choices for your home so that it not only performs and looks beautiful but also supports your family's long-term health and wellbeing?
What does sustainable, healthy design look like? Does it look good? Or aim to BE and FEEL good? What do the experts say about:
- improving the indoor air quality for occupant's physical health?
- improving occupant comfort?
- improving mental wellbeing?
- making better decisions that also contribute to a healthier planet (along with lower C02 emissions and responsible-sourcing of materials)?
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As we move more indoors for the colder months this deep dive into the practicalities of the Healthy Home, saw us joined by Talina Edwards and Andy Marlow from longtime visionary architecture practice Envirotecture. For more than three decades Envirotecture have been committed to creating net-zero homes that are equitable, affordable, and conducive to a healthy lifestyle while shaping a future where sustainable homes are accessible to all.
This session gives you the building blocks to understand healthy sustainable design fundamentals that:
- create beautiful spaces for your family, bringing form and function together
- control humidity and temperature, for maximum comfort
- maximize natural daylighting and ventilation
- minimize sources of indoor pollutants by choice of natural building materials
- reflect the way your family lives now
adapts to the changing needs of your family as you grow and change
- have ‘localness‘, responding to the nature of your building site, and its surroundings
Ultimately create healthy, safe places for you to live, work and play
Envirotecture
Their ethos is to care deeply about the natural environment and the built environment and how these can be aligned for healthy people and healthy planet. Practice that is not just doing less bad, but doing more good too - with genuine ethical responsibility and loving kindness towards people and the planet - this is what really makes them shine.
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