The Financial Impact of Healthy Buildings: Rental Prices and Market Dynamics in Commercial Office

Sadikin, Natasha; Turan, Irmak; Chegut, Andrea

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“…A healthier building, on average, leads to a healthier employee and lower absenteeism (Palacios et al, 2020), connecting indoor air quality and an employee's health, well-being, job satisfaction, and productivity. The research confirms there is a financial justification for specifying these features (Sadikin et al, 2021), and this study provides an initial model for designing a wider distributed set of assessments.…”

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Toxic schools? Teacher perceptions of indoor air quality and negative place attachment

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The perception of indoor air quality (IAQ) in school buildings has garnered much attention. The self-reported experiences of teachers regarding the phenomenon of suffering from toxic IAQ was missing from scholarly work before the onset of the coronavirus. Toxic IAQ can be defined as the presence of toxic chemicals or compounds (including biological) in the air at levels that pose health risks and can affect a person's health, comfort, and performance (Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], 2018a). Since the onset of the pandemic, teachers are leaving the workforce in unprecedented numbers due to poor working conditions, unreasonable demands, and unrealistic expectations (Steiner and Woo, 2021). Addressing teacher retention is critical to stymie continuing teacher shortages and the adverse impact on students. This sequential mixed-methods study confronts the gap between place theory, specifically the negative emotional person-place bond, and perceived IAQ in public school buildings. Little research has been presented on the role the physical workplace has on teacher well-being and whether psychosociological environmental relationships can predict place attachment outcomes. The question of how teacher perceptions of IAQ relate to negative place attachment was explored using survey research of 242 educators in four public school districts in the Midwest. Survey data was collected April-May of 2021, with 13 follow-up purposive interviews, with the criteria of teachers' presenting negative place attachment feelings, during August 2021. The research revealed the more teachers realize their health concerns about toxic IAQ in their workplace, the more negative place attachment they feel. This involves the process of grieving, and feeling frustrated, angry, exhausted, and confused, like separation and divorce. When a teacher has crossed a threshold of divorced feelings toward the school building, they make choices: to stay employed, assigned to their building, feeling negative place attachment, ask to be reassigned, or leave. The two significant predictors of negative place attachment revealed through stepwise linear regression, were physical "healthy building" attributes and health concerns about the IEQ/IAQ in the school environment. Teachers' perceptions of aged buildings as being unhealthy, including the inoperability of classroom windows, aged carpet, and lack of ventilation were better understood by understanding what it means to occupy a workplace teachers perceive to have toxic IAQ. Employees with health conditions experienced feelings of being misunderstood, not taken seriously, and additionally faced a host of complicated social interactions with their administrators, co-workers, and family because of health ailments they attributed to their workplace. The study resulted in the creation of two new theoretic models: a revisiting of Tripartite Model of Place Attachment to include place detachment, the threshold crossed in absentia of any place attachment feelings, and an epidemiological model for addressing indoor air quality in schools and suggested interventions for practice. While these models help to develop methods, redress, and identification for negative place attachment due to indoor air quality, it was not possible to identify a consistent predictor of negative place attachment. This suggests that the themes identified in the interview process alongside a predictor model can help identify schools where intervention is essential.

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Toxic schools? Teacher perceptions of indoor air quality and negative place attachment

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“…This concept has been described in several publications. 11,12,14,15,29 • Built environment: Human- "made or modified structures that provide people with living, working, and recreational spaces." 30 • Determinants of health: "The range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status."…”

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“…This concept has been described in several publications. 11,12,14,15,29 • Built environment: Human-"made or modified structures that provide people with living, working, and recreational spaces." Intervention studies (e.g., randomized controlled trials) and other study types, such as cross-sectional, observational cohort, risk factor, correlational, and prognosis studies were included.…”

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“…These efforts could also help to hire and retain employees, since job seekers are satisfied with and attracted to companies that focus on well-being in the built environment. 89 For residential and commercial property owners, addressing healthy building determinants related to back and neck pain could result in increased rental premiums, such as those observed in other healthy building programs, 15,29 more satisfied tenants, and reduction of tenant turnover. From a public health promotion perspective, these initiatives will add to the body of knowledge on how to address the global burden of chronic diseases.…”

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Relationship of Healthy Building Determinants With Back and Neck Pain: A Systematic Review

Gherscovici¹,

Mayer²

2022

Am J Health Promot

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Objective Back pain and neck pain are very common, costly, and disabling. Healthy building determinants within the built environment have not been adequately assessed as contributors to these conditions. The objective of this study was to systematically review the literature on the relationship of healthy building determinants with back and neck pain. Data Source PubMed, CINAHL, EMBASE, Google Scholar, and PEDRo. Study Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria: Studies were included if they met the following criteria: Adults, comparison of healthy building determinants (air quality, ventilation, dust and pests, lighting and views, moisture, noise, safety/security, thermal health, water quality) with back and neck pain, original research, English. Studies were excluded if full text articles were unavailable and if the focus was patient and materials handling or ergonomics. Data Extraction Data extraction and other review procedures were elaborated according to PRISMA guidelines. Data Synthesis: Data were synthesized with an approach adapted from Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and American Physical Therapy Association. Results 37 articles enrolling 46,223 participants were eligible. Most articles were cross-sectional (31/37) and fair quality (28/37). None were interventional. Evidence was found to generally support a relationship indicating that as healthy building determinants worsen, the risk of back and neck pain increases. Conclusion Although the available evidence precludes interpretations about causality, the study's findings are starting points to guide future research, knowledge creation, and health promotion initiatives about the relationships of the built environment with back and neck pain.

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“…The concept of healthy buildings is a "biopsychosocial framework that focuses on transforming the built environment to promote and enhance the health, wellness, performance, productivity, and quality of life of occupants," as we previously defined [13]. The World Health Organization indicates that a healthy building is "a space that supports the physical, psychological, and social health and well-being of people" [16]. Several healthy building determinants (HBDs) have been discussed over the past two decades, including these eight general categories: (1) air quality and ventilation, (2) dust and pests, (3) lighting and views, (4) moisture, (5) noise, (6) safety and security, (7) thermal health, and (8) water quality [15,17,18].…”

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Relationship of Healthy Building Determinants With Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Extremities: A Systematic Review

Gherscovici¹,

Mayer²

2023

Cureus

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Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are a substantial societal burden and various factors affect their causation, recovery, and prognosis. Management of MSDs is complex and requires multifaceted interventions. Given the challenges of MSDs and their continued burden, it is possible that additional elements could impact these disorders that have not been fully researched, for example, indoor environmental quality. Our previous review provided preliminary evidence that healthy building determinants (HBDs) are associated with the risk of back and neck pain. However, the relationship of HBDs with extremity MSDs and general MSDs (i.e., MSDs involving multiple body regions or in which body regions were unspecified in the original reports) has not been formally studied. The purpose of this review was to conduct a systematic literature review to assess the relationship of HBDs with extremity and general MSDs (PROSPERO ID: CRD42022314832). PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, and PEDRo databases were searched through April 2022. Inclusion criteria for study eligibility were as follows: humans of ages ≥18 years, reported on one or more of eight HBDs (1. air quality and ventilation, 2. dust and pests, 3. lighting and views, 4. moisture, 5. noise, 6. safety and security, 7. thermal health, 8. water quality), and compared these HBDs with extremity MSDs or general MSDs, original research, English. Exclusion criteria were as follows: articles not published in peer-reviewed journals, full-text articles unavailable. Review procedures were conducted and reported in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) recommendations. Empirical evidence statements were developed for 33 pairwise comparisons of HBDs with MSDs. The search uncovered 53 eligible studies with 178,532 participants. A total of 74.6% (39/53) of the studies were cross-sectional and 81.1% (43/53) were fair quality. Overall, the majority of uncovered evidence indicates that HBDs are related to risk of extremity and general MSDs. Nineteen comparisons support that as HBDs worsen, the risk of MSDs increases. Six comparisons had conflicting evidence. Three comparisons support that poor HBDs are not related to increased risk of extremity and general MSDs. Five comparisons had no evidence. This systematic review builds upon previous work to provide useful starting points to enhance awareness about the HBD-MSD relationship. These findings can help inform research and public health efforts aimed at addressing suboptimal HBDs through appropriate interventions to improve the lives of those suffering from MSDs.

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The Financial Impact of Healthy Buildings: Rental Prices and Market Dynamics in Commercial Office

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Toxic schools? Teacher perceptions of indoor air quality and negative place attachment

Toxic schools? Teacher perceptions of indoor air quality and negative place attachment

Relationship of Healthy Building Determinants With Back and Neck Pain: A Systematic Review

Relationship of Healthy Building Determinants With Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Extremities: A Systematic Review

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