IWBI at Greenbuild Europe 2020
UPDATE: As Greenbuild Europe in Dublin has been rescheduled to 2021, IWBI’s WELL Portfolio Provider Training and the WELL reception have been canceled. IWBI is looking into options for delivering the training for the Europe WELL community.
Please note the WELL Performance Testing Agent Training has also been canceled
IWBI will be at Greenbuild Europe at Croke Park in Dublin, March 23-27, and we hope you’ll join us.
Greenbuild Europe will be an opportunity to engage with industry experts on sustainability and health, increase your knowledge about how to advance buildings and communities that support people’s well-being, and learn more about IWBI’s innovative work in Europe and globally as we’ve passed the 500-million square-foot mark of buildings registered and certified under WELL.
Pack your schedule with WELL-focused sessions to gain new knowledge of innovative building, design and operations strategies in the wellness space. Meet with the WELL team and celebrate with us at the WELL reception.
MEET THE WELL TEAM
We look forward to meeting with the European WELL community at Greenbuild Europe one-on-one or at one of our IWBI events. Please reach out to meet our team, learn what’s new with WELL and get your WELL questions answered.
- Peter Smith, Senior Vice President, Market Development
- Ann Marie Aguilar, Senior Vice President, EMEA
- Mona Holtkötter, Manager, Market Solutions
- Laura Wilkes, Manager, Europe
- Eleftherios Zacharakis, Associate, Market Solutions
- Kristen Coco, Vice President, Communications
PROGRAMME
Monday, March 23
10:00 – 17:00
WELL Portfolio Provider Training
Location: The Masonry, 151 Thomas Street, Dublin, D08 PY5E
Room: The Grainhouse
Interested in learning how to implement WELL strategies at a portfolio scale? Gain a holistic overview of WELL Portfolio, including program framework, pricing and value drivers, in this full-day training for consultants. Leverage insights from early adopters and learn how to use the digital dashboard to achieve a WELL Portfolio score and provide a new level of service and expertise to your clients. Walk away with a concrete understanding of the consultant’s scope of work and the strategies for customizing the WELL Portfolio opportunity for any audience.
Please join us on Monday, 23 March in Dublin during the week of Greenbuild Europe for a full-day WELL Portfolio training, networking and engagement event. For inquiries, please contact events@wellcertified.com.
13:00 – 17:00
(LD01) Workshop: Real‐World Strategies for Prioritizing Safe and Circular Building Materials
Location: TBC
Presenters: Henning Bloech, Dorien van der Weele, Philip Ivey, Eszter Gulacsy, Christina Raab
Architects, interior designers, specifiers, project managers, contractors and manufacturers have equally important roles to play in selecting safe, circular materials for the development of green and healthy buildings. During Real‐World Strategies for Prioritizing Safe and Circular Building Materials, leading industry experts and practitioners will explore proven approaches and strategies for prioritizing material health and circularity in building product selection and purchasing. Through first‐hand experiences and real‐world examples shared by experts from the field, attendees will learn about tools and frameworks that help enable material health and circularity goals—including achieving the latest LEED and WELL requirements—to be realized at the building level. As part of the workshop, attendees will get a preview of the new Cradle to Cradle Certified Product Standard v4 to see how material health and circularity criteria have evolved to drive greater adoption and impact. They will also hear how WELL is helping to bridge data gaps in the supply chain as a means of supporting innovation in green chemistry and advancing market transformation. Attendees will also be invited to examine the implications of their materials choices, how best practices can be scaled from the project to portfolio‐level, and how collaborating with other stakeholders throughout the supply chain can optimize positive outcomes. They will also be challenged to identify potential interventions in the design process to advance material health and circularity in their own work, including opportunities for sourcing and integrating safe and circular materials into building projects.
17:30 - 19:00
WELL Reception
Location: The Masonry, 151 Thomas Street, Dublin, D08 PY5E
Room: Vandal Cafe Restaurant
On the eve of Greenbuild Europe in Dublin, raise a glass with us to celebrate our continued collaboration in advancing human health in buildings and communities across the globe.
While this is an open invitation, please note that space is limited and an RSVP is required. Register here.
Tuesday, March 24
11:00 – 12:00
(A01) Daylighting for Success - Maximizing Human Health and Satisfaction
Presenters: Neall Digert, Alexander Kohlen
This course will provide detailed explanations for why and how the daylight sufficiency metrics are relevant for human perception, psychology, and physiology, and the importance of how to apply and interpret those metrics in order to achieve a successful daylighting solution. With the foundational principles of daylighting design established, we will then proceed with discussing the role of daylight in achieving desirable ratings within the LEED, WELL, BREEAM rating tools. The attendee is expected to have a fundamental knowledge relative to the role of daylight in a successful Sustainable building design, and have the basic familiarity and experience with the daylight and circadian sufficiency metrics outlined in LEED, WELL, and BREEAM rating systems.
11:00 – 12:00
(A03) Transparent + Circular: A Transatlantic Material Health Update
Presenters: Tristan Roberts, Charlotte Petiot, Christina Raab
Join this session for a detailed and practical update on development of a health, circular materials economy bridging Europe, North America, and worldwide supply chains. Product manufacturers, trade associations, and nonprofits are all coming together collaboratively to build standards, tools, and to provide increased selection of green, healthy, and transparency products for LEED and WELL project teams. Each of the three presenters has been working in the field of material health and building products for years and is familiar with the obstacles that practitioners face. Project teams struggle with the availability of products. Manufacturers face issues with gleaning information from their supply chains, and having protection for proprietary data. Attendees will learn about the quickly growing adoption of the Health Product Declaration (HPD) Open Standard from 2011 to today, and how the idea of a consistent standard has brought manufacturers to the table and overcome concerns. Attendees will get a preview of the new Cradle to Cradle Certified Product Standard v4 to see how material health and circularity criteria have evolved to drive greater adoption and impact. They will also hear how HPDC and C2CPII are working together, along with other globally used standards, to harmonize the use of verified data to reduce cost barriers to manufacturers and help rapidly spread the benefits of health and circularity to more projects. This session will also highlight how manufacturers of construction products are striving to move towards a non-toxic circular economy.
13:30 – 14:30
(B02) Human health in a changing climate: people & planet thriving together
Presenters: Ann Marie Aguilar, Catriona Brady, Chris Pyke
This session will explore the intersection between health, wellness and environmental resilience, and make the case for a holistic ‘planetary health’ view. Each presenter will share relevant initiatives and updates from their respective global organisations, including: - IWBI: the People, Planet, Prosper campaign, human health in a changing climate community webcast, joining the UN Global Compact and mapping WELLv2 against the Sustainable Development Goals, and work to incentivise projects to adopt a holistic ‘people+planet’ view within the WELL programme, including crosswalks, a potential new Precondition Feature for WELLv2 graduation, and the new Portfolio programme, advancing health at scale by embedding health interventions as part of a successful ESG strategy. - WGBC: perspectives from across their diverse global GBC membership, the Better Places for People and Plant a Sensor campaigns, and 2019-2020 focus on air quality. Project and campaign insights will demonstrate how human heath conversations can be leveraged to catalyse climate action. Discussions will include: - synergies between health and wellness strategies and sustainability efforts, and ways to incentivise a holistic approach, including WELL Feature I05 Green Building Rating Systems - the phenomenon of ecological grief - rising anxiety and depression linked to climate change - and how industry can respond through strategies like WELL Feature M01 Mental Health Promotion. - quantifying and improving positive social impact; elevating the human component of ESG reporting - efforts to raise awareness of the health benefits of high performing buildings to catalyse climate action; why leaders in the environmental movement are also taking the earliest action in championing human health and wellbeing. This outline deliberately links elements of the discussion to specific WELLv2 Features to attendees can earn 1 WELL-Specific CE hour. This same approach was approved for a recent WELL Community webcast on this topic - recording available here.
15:00 – 16:00
(C03) Healthy Buildings Face-Off: LEED and WELL versus EU regulations
Presenters: Henning Bloech, Daniel Tigges
Creating and advancing healthy buildings is a core mandate for LEED and WELL alike. The preferred approach by LEED v4.1 BD+C, ID+C and WELL v2 to ensure safe and sound interior spaces is to use low emitting and non-harmful products and materials. Both utilize mainly North American standards, certifications, and test methods, but they also allow the use of European alternative compliance paths to fulfill the respective materials and indoor air quality requirements. Building projects in Europe have to comply with a number of additional demands including European building and construction products directives, national and regional building codes, and public procurement specifications. Building professionals and product manufacturers alike struggle with the myriad of requirements, the different test methods, and the intent of the directives.This session will consider how European regulations and directives aimed at building materials fit into the context of LEED and WELL. The presenters will compare the credit requirements in LEED v4.1 and WELL v2 and their European compliance paths for materials with EU and European national requirements and directives. They will explain technical and outcome related similarities, differences, inconsistencies, and gaps between the various specifications and offer suggestions to navigate the diverging systems.
16:30 – 17:30
(D03) Applying Biophilic Design; Going Beyond Health + Wellness
Presenters: Amanda Sturgeon, Martin Brown, Sonja Bochart,
Join acclaimed Biophilic Design experts Amanda Sturgeon, Martin Brown and Sonja Bochart, to delve into what it takes to create a truly biophilic project, applying the newly release Biophilic Design Toolkit, a collaboration between Google and the International Living Future Institute. Together, we’ll roll up our sleeves and go beyond health and wellness, bridging research and practice, to create places where humans and nature can both thrive. Harvard biologist and environmentalist Edward O. Wilson coined the term BIOPHILIA – “love of life or living systems” – to describe humanity’s innate connection with the natural world. Wilson worked with thought-leaders like Stephen R. Kellert to further develop the theories and research around biophilia, which led to the emerging field of biophilic design. Now, the International Living Future Institute leads the Biophilic Design Initiative, bringing this concept to market. Biophilic design promotes improved human health and wellbeing by creating connections between people and nature in the built environment. As we continue to spend approximately 90% of our time indoors, integrating biophilic design in the places where we live, work, learn, play, worship, and convene together is integral to advancing health, happiness, productivity, and overall well-being.
18:30 – 20:30
CEL: Greenbuild Celebration
Don’t miss out on the Greenbuild Europe Celebration. Join us for an exciting evening of entertainment, dining and networking.
Wednesday, March 25
9:45 – 10:45
(E03) Incorporating Wellness into Flexible Workspaces
Presenters: Muge Karasahin, David Pearson, Eoin Joy
Flexible workspace brings down the walls in traditional workspace where start-ups and established companies can work alongside each other in a strong community with a collaborative vibe. They are spaces where members work, network, learn and socialise together – reducing the isolation and loneliness associated with remote working. According to research carried out by Emergent Research and GCUC (Global Coworking Unconference Conference) by 2022, there will be more than 5 million coworking professionals in about 49,500 spaces around the world - 49% increase from the current number of flexible offices spaces globally. Ireland is experiencing a significant growth in flexible workspaces to cater to a growing demand, with Dublin based company Iconic Offices offering 16 flexible workspaces. The Lennox Building is the latest addition to Iconic Office’s portfolio. Spanning 27,000 sq ft* over 5 floors, it challenges the workspace offering further, pursuing WELL Certification under the WELL v2 pilot rating system, placing the wellbeing and productivity of their diverse members and employees at the heart of the design. This session includes a panel discussion where the design team and the client discuss the design process, financial impact and decision making, human experience both of members and employees, and post occupancy results view while discussing the reasons, challenges and outcomes of incorporating WELL v2 pilot rating system. Being one of the first flexible workspaces pursing WELL v2, the project was able to start the conversation of developing the flexible workspaces applicability of the standard with International WELL Building Institute (IWBI). The speakers will share tips on how to incorporate health and wellness into flexible offices and share insides to market trends and transitions in Ireland’s future workplaces.
15:15 – 16:15
(H03) Product Transparency - Is it the Holy Grail for health and wellbeing?
Presenters: Nick Woodmore, Eszter Gulacsy, Linda Lea
The concept of product transparency features in both the LEED and WELL rating systems, both in connection with improved indoor environmental quality and optimised material attributes. As with many credits in these systems, there is a lot more to the requirement than meets the eye and our presentation will address the challenges associated with implementing materials transparency requirements on real projects and offer some insight into what we think would be needed in order to make a real step change in this area. We will start by giving the consultant’s view of encountering materials transparency requirements at design stage and setting appropriate and achievable targets for projects. We will describe the difficulties with the myriad of European and American ecolabels that incorporate some form of materials transparency and share our experience of upskilling design teams in order to be able to incorporate requirements into their specification. We will also comment on the challenges procurement and risk management practices in the construction industry pose to achieving product transparency on projects. We will also present the contractor’s view of addressing materials transparency requirements on real projects, including submittal reviews, site personnel and subcontractor management. Finally, we zoom out from projects and present the viewpoint of a manufacturing organisation that supplies the building industry on how they decided to tackle this issue on a corporate level. Following the very practical points from real-life projects, we finish by reflecting on the place for product transparency in the larger context of circular economy and health & wellbeing. We will outline a vision of the future where materials transparency, energy efficiency, circular economy, recyclability and materials reuse can be considered together in a harmonised and mutually beneficial way.
Thursday-Friday, March 26-27
8:00 – 17:00
WELL Performance Testing Agent Training - Dublin
Location: The Masonry, 151 Thomas Street, Dublin, D08 PY5E
Room: The Grainhouse
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is pleased to host a WELL Performance Testing Agent™ training in Dublin. This two-day training, taught by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI), will grow the network of qualified, independent agents who conduct on-site performance tests toward WELL Certification. Learn more about WELL Performance Testing. Register here.
