How healthy is that new home you're eyeing? The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is developing a new rating system to help answer that question.
How healthy is that new home you're eyeing? The International WELL Building Institute is developing a new rating system to help answer that question.Air and water quality, light levels, building materials and similar factors can have a big impact on home occupants' health.
"We're developing standards ... from the perspective of what actually matters, what actually generates real outcomes when it comes to human health.""In a home, so much of it is going to have to do with air quality, and so that's a major area of focus," Hodgdon said. "And it turns out acoustics are linked to everything from impacting sleep to a higher incidence of heart disease."Once the new scale is up and running, homebuilders can apply to have their projects rated, and then use their score as a marketing point to attract buyers.IWBI is working with a handful of developers to figure out how best to craft the scoring system in a way that would spur adoption.
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