Reap What You Sow
Valuing Workplaces that Grow Good Ideas
PLP Labs published a study titled ‘Reap What You Sow: Valuing Workplaces that Grow Good Ideas’ with academics from Loughborough University, the University of Reading, and biophilic experts Benholm. The report details the process of measuring and monetising the well-being and environmental value of biophilia in architectural design. It explores how design decisions can be given a monetary value to enable real estate clients to fairly evaluate the worth of these interventions alongside other project costs. Find out more here.
- Investigate the monetary value of views out and indoor greenery
- Use wearables to monitor the participants’ well-being and environmental quality
- Ability to apply a financial proxy to a post-occupancy evaluation in order to influence commercial decision-making
- Made a business case for healthy and sustainable design decisions, which are often the first to suffer from value assessments
- Use wearables to collect well-being and environmental data for rigorous study
- Findings demonstrate how design choices can be measured in monetary terms for stakeholders, such as investors and developers, to drive commercial decision-making
- Joyce Chan-Schoof, Loughborough University
- Professor Derek Clements-Croome, University of Reading
- Adrian Benholm, Benholm Group
