BUILDINGS AND hEALTH
addressing the impact of the built environment on health, wellbing and community resilience.
"The built environment is a large and mostly overlooked health system."
- Buildings can protect or expose public to environmental harm.
- Homes can heal or harm.
- Air quality, indoor and outdoor, directly impacts respiratory health.
- Extreme heat affects sleep, cardiovascular function, and mental wellbeing.
- Building materials influence long-term exposure to toxins.
- Poor housing inefficiencies lead to higher energy burdens (utility demands and bills).
The work of a peaceful space inc (apsi) is to strengthen the holistic connection between our health, our communities and the built environment.
At apsi, we focus on healthy interior environments and the impact of the built environment on communities. apsi integrates data, building standards, advocacy and community engagement to deliver solutions that support healthier buildings, healthier people and communities.
apsi SERVICES
Consulting
apsi focuses on the built environment’s impact on equitable quality of life identifying solutions around air quality, thermal comfort, lighting, and more.
Engagement
Our work facilitates community participation in strategy, planning and co-design of projects contributing to quality of life solutions.
Advocacy
We author regulatory policy promoting community input into decisions that the impact of the built environment on health..
IS YOUR BUILDING HEALTHY?
BUILDINGS AND COMMUNITY
PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY FIRST ENGAGEMENT CONSULTINGDEVELOPMENT + MAINTENANCE + POLICY
- Prioritize people and community in planning, development and policy
- Integrate health-based criteria into building codes and policies
- Elevate the role of the built environment in public health conversations
- Educate and raise awareness
- Mainstream the conversation
MAINSTREAM THE CONVERSATION:
- Air quality (indoor and outdoor)
- Heat islands + buildings
- Water and energy + buildings
- Education on what to look for while making building science understandable and important
- Help communities take action
CREATING A PEACEFUL SPACE
MUSINGS : PRACTICES : GUIDESIn the 1950s prizewinning biologist and doctor Jonas Salk was working on a cure for polio in a dark basement laboratory in Pittsburgh. Progress was slow, so to clear his head, Salk traveled to Assisi, Italy, where he spent time in a 13th-century monastery, ambling amid its columns and cloistered courtyards. Suddenly, Salk found himself awash in new insights, including the one that would lead to his successful polio vaccine. Salk was convinced he had drawn his inspiration from the contemplative setting. He came to believe so strongly in architecture’s ability to influence the mind that he teamed up with renowned architect Louis Kahn to build the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., as a scientific facility that would stimulate breakthroughs and encourage creativity.
Peace is a Sacred Space
apsi
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3965 E Cat Balue Drive
Phoenix, AZ
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Weekends: Closed
Holidays: Closed