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All over the world, natural daylight has been exchanged for artificial light forms at the expense of our health and even productivity. With better building design, though, we can reclaim the daylight and improve well-being and performance.

How do you design and operate a healthy building? Answers to these questions can be found in an increasing number of methodologies and rating schemes that have seen the light around the world in recent years. They all share the ambition to strengthen the health and well-being of building users. Yet, they vary widely in terms of their overall scope, the metrics they use as proof of performance, and the weight that they put on the different phases in a building’s life cycle. The following chronological overview presents a selection of the most important and forward-looking tools, as well as their underlying methodologies.

De Hessenwald School in Weiterstadt, Duitsland, is een voorbeeld van energie-efficiënte, hedendaagse architectuur die een nieuw leer- en pedagogisch model faciliteert. Het goed verlichte en goed geventileerde atrium dat drie verdiepingen telt, staat centraal in zowel het model als het gebouw.