When it comes to optimizing buildings and their impact, “green” only scratches the surface.
9Foundations
Welcome to the Healthy Buildings Movement.
Covid-19 Support Services
9F is supporting executives and teams across major sectors of the economy - finance, technology, media, biotech, arts, sports respond to Covid-19.
Our support services and responses include:
- Healthy building strategies
- Return to office strategies
- Worker health and safety
- SOPs for building operations and enhanced disinfection
- Real-time indoor environmental quality monitoring
- Building re-commissioning
- Vetting new technology and capital improvements
- Industrial hygiene services
- Strategic advising
- Training
- Risk communication
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The 9 Foundations
of a Healthy Building
The 9 Foundations of a Healthy Building is a standardized, holistic approach to understanding how buildings impact the people inside them, created by a multidisciplinary team of experts from the Healthy Buildings Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Each foundation is based on the synthesis of scientific evidence, and applies universally to all indoor spaces – offices, homes, schools, airplanes.
9 Foundations Inc. provides expert consulting services that translate this research into practice in your building.
Building Science
Health Science
Business Science
We created the science of healthier buildings. Now we’re applying it for healthier people.
In recent years, so much of the focus on buildings has been around green environments. And while the green building movement has led to incredible improvements in modern built environments, the push for continued progress calls us to collectively ask “what’s next?” 9 Foundations is answering that question by shifting the conversation to health and placing the focus on the greatest area of opportunity to drive building benefits: the people inside.
At 9 Foundations, we’re forcing the collision between building science, health science and business science to create the first comprehensive approach to measuring, monitoring and optimizing indoor environmental health. Together with clients, we’re working to create indoor environments that improve human health and cognitive function every day.
As the world looks for ways to enhance the health and well-being of a growing population, everyone is in the healthcare business. At 9 Foundations, we’re bringing that mindset to the built environment and evolving the green building movement to become something so much bigger.
Roots in Science
Our approach uses the framework of “The 9 Foundations of a Healthy Building” developed by an expert multidisciplinary team from the Healthy Buildings Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Optimizing for Health
We design and deliver an approach in which each building is measured, monitored, optimized and rated with a focus on ensuring the healthiest possible building environments for the people who live and work inside.
Health as a KPI
Using metrics created by health scientists, we work with executives to customize a strategic approach based on unique Health Performance Indicators, covering everything from ventilation and air quality to lighting and views. This approach recognizes health as the most important KPI.
Human Benefits
By curating scientific evidence, we demonstrate the benefits of investing in the people inside a building – benefits that include reduction in absenteeism, lower disease transmission, better cognitive function, higher productivity and more.
Our Clients
We're advancing the business of healthy buildings.
From owners and developers to employees and tenants, an investment in healthier buildings can benefit everyone. See how 9 Foundations has worked with key leadership and executives at some of the largest companies in the world to create and implement strategies to optimize building health — and the health and productivity of the people inside.
Confidential Pharmaceutical Client
Strategic advising on healthy building strategies
Confidential Banking Client
Expert consulting on Covid-19 response and executive leadership on the importance of healthy buildings.
Confidential Technology Client
Strategic advising on healthy building strategies
Confidential Real Estate Client
Development of Healthy building strategies for new construction and protocols for measuring and tracking Health Performance Indicators. Supporting marketing efforts on conveying the value of healthy buildings.
Our News
Read More »The Washington Post: We Cannot Keep Ignoring the Possibility of Airborne Transmission. Here’s How to Address It.
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Read More »The Washington Post: Airplanes Don’t Make You Sick. Really.
Our Leadership
Explore how we're applying science to create customized healthy building solutions for leading companies in commercial real estate, finance and technology.
You're working with the people who helped create it. Our leadership team has spent years pioneering research and driving conversations around the connection between human health and built environments.
