LifeProven has launched a Real Estate Wellbeing Metric to measure the ‘S benefit of real estate in ESG’.
The ESG consultancy for the built environment is already working with the likes of BTR operator VervLife, Dandi Living, Vinci and SEGRO, offering data-driven insights into how their buildings should be designed and operated to maximise the wellbeing of occupants.
Adam Hinds, co-owner of LifeProven, said: “With mental health firmly on the national agenda, and with people spending 95% of their time indoors, thinking of the building process anew, as a means of preventing potential poor health is clearly a progressive idea.
“By considering the likes of natural light, air quality, acoustics, thermal characteristics, privacy but also opportunities to socialise, and the like, is all relatively new compared to, for example, carbon emissions. So, equally, is recognising that bad quality buildings can have a negative impact on quality of life, especially over a period of time.”
Jordan Relfe, LifeProven co-founder, added: “Wellbeing is highly personalised, not a generic metric, and property operators typically haven’t known where to start with addressing it. Sustainability is more widely understood but I think the market has been much slower in considering wellbeing as central to a building’s performance. Perhaps Covid has changed that for the better. Either way, we’ve set out to make it as easy to measure a building for its wellbeing as one might for its carbon footprint.”
To date, LifeProven has collected 165,000 data points across occupant variables such as age, gender, income, fitness, nutrition and mental health, as well as by the type, location, features and operation of the building itself.
