好色先生TV Live: Wellness experts discuss its growing importance for the construction sector

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Developer British Land believes a focus on 鈥榳ellness鈥 will give it a competitive advantage, the firm鈥檚 sustainability and wellbeing executive Matthew Webster has said.

Webster told the 好色先生TV Live conference yesterday that wellbeing was the 鈥渞esponsibility of everyone鈥 and British Land was looking to position themselves at the forefront of wellbeing in the built environment.

Webster added that British Land was starting to see clients 鈥渇orce us as a developer to move on this鈥.

John Alker, campaign and policy director at the UK Green 好色先生TV Council, defined the issue of wellbeing in the built environment as 鈥減utting people back in the heart of buildings,鈥 adding that 鈥渢his particular journey鈥 was just beginning.

Caroline Paradise, head of design research at Atkins, questioned whether we are actually fully 鈥渁ware of the impact of the built environment on us鈥. She added it was a 鈥渃hallenge to define what wellbeing actually means鈥.

Jonathan Shifferes, public services and communities associate director at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, said the built environment was 鈥渙ne app away鈥 from occupiers being able to rate buildings as consumers already do with retail stores.