Materials Bank
Over the years I have come across a number of innovative materials which are disrupting the construction industry in the best way possible. The below is a live list of those materials, to be updated continously to become an informal ‘materials ideas bank’. I have been fortunate enough to use a number of these on…
What does wellbeing ‘feel like’?
Can you feel whether a building is good for your health? Whilst ‘feeling’ whether a building is good for your health could be considered intangible, it is well documented (with its own page on the NHS website[1]), that ‘sick building syndrome’ is a condition that can have severe health impacts[2]. There is no defined or…
How can material specification help achieve Net Zero targets?
I was recently invited to be a panellist as part of Building Magazine’s Net Zero live event in May 2022. The hour panel was on the topic of how material specification can help achieve Net Zero targets, with a really interesting cross-sector discussion from myself, a Structural Engineer and a Developer. Follow the link below…
Urban nature-based solutions: how can they help us?
Not a blog post on this website, but over on Morrow + Lorraine’s journal. Please use the link below to read the piece and as always let me know your thoughts!
Does designing for wellbeing contribute to more sustainable buildings? Part 3
Part 3. The Wellbeing Brief. What is it and how could it help you or your building? WELL does many things well (pun very much intended), it sets out rigorous evidence based targets and it provides a process and methodology for tracking and proving those outcomes. Whilst this is successful in its own way, I…
Does designing for wellbeing contribute to more sustainable buildings? Part 2
Part 1 of this blog post explored how designing for good wellbeing in our buildings can contribute to better, more sustainable buildings and even towards achieving Net Zero Carbon targets. Whilst good wellbeing design doesn’t necessarily equal good sustainability, it is one of many components which are required to be considered at the outset if we want to…
Does designing for wellbeing contribute to more sustainable buildings? Part 1
Wellbeing and sustainability. They’re grouped together the majority of the time, but does designing for great wellbeing genuinely contribute to more sustainable buildings, or is it a distraction from the big issue of trying to reduce the embodied and operational carbon in our buildings to get to Net Zero Carbon by 2050, with the mid-way…
What do we need from our future workplace?
The last Project Wellbeing post explored the role and the transformation that the office has had during and post pandemic. There has been a seismic shift in the way we work, the technology available and the way we now perceive the role of the office and impact on our wellbeing. The office is no longer a place…
The office – our last institution?
Let’s start with one of the biggest topics of 2021 so far, the return to the office. The impact of Covid-19 throughout 2020 and 2021 changed our lives irrevocably in countless ways, it threw everything we knew up in the air and arguably fast forwarded many aspects of our lives and our work by years. We…
Introducing Project Wellbeing
Hello! My name is Amber Luscombe, a qualified Architect and a WELL Building Accredited Professional (WELL AP). Welcome to my blog, i’m really excited to have you here. I’m going to take a guess that if you’re here, you’re either an architect yourself, a professional within the built environment or you have some interest in…
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