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Design and Healthy Living

1 March 2009

8 Pages

Source: Inspire East

The report focuses on three specific issues:

  • Day lighting/ Lighting
  • Indoor Air Quality
  • Acoustics.

It draws on a number of good practice guides and stresses two important principles:

  • the careful integration and co-ordination of design strategies at the beginning of the design process
  • the need to ensure that the building is considered as a system. Design decisions should be made within the context of operational and lifecycle strategies and vice versa.

Summary:

This report provides a summary of some design issues that can have an effect on healthy living in primary schools.