Healthy Buildings
How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity

Torn on this book. Much of the book felt like a book about Harvard by two guys that teach at Harvard and know some other people at Harvard and also read studies out of Harvard. It was kind of annoying. Also there was an uncomfortable lack of acknowledgment of data privacy issues and concerns, which......more

The good news is that Healthy Buildings reads like an HBS bro-talk packaged into an academic monograph that you feel very little guilt DNF-ing. The bad news is that the information it provides is actually eye opening, especially if you are managing or building a house or an office, that you really n......more

felt like a salespitch to promote his family founded construction business; centered on the profit motivations for building managers......more

It's a little obvious that this book comes from academia. As someone who works in the built environment space, all I could think about for most of this book is how different my experiences are from those of the authors (not to discount their experiences!), and as a result how some of their projectio......more

This book makes a compelling argument for the real estate industry to get on board or get left behind. Healthy buildings are already coming and non-healthy buildings will become difficult to lease. The writing style is conversational and presents challenging technical concepts in an approachable man......more