Green Healthy Places

Welcome to episode 065 of the Green Healthy Places podcast in which we discuss the themes of wellbeing and sustainability in real estate and hospitality today.

This week I’m in the Netherlands talking to Marielle Romeijn, Co-Founder of One Hundred Restrooms, an innovative brand disrupting the public toilet market by focusing on environmental consciousness and wellness benefits.

Their custom design modules can be found in shopping malls, railway stations and roadside service stations around Spain, Belgium and Sweden as well as their home country.

We discuss the birth of the brand, their business model, how modular design allows them to customize each experience according to the location, the integration of Internet Of Things technology, alignment with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, how they use multi-sensory design to upgrade the toilet break experience and their relentless pursuit of ever higher hygiene standards.

Marielle’s company is an example of how concepts from green building and healthy building design are filtering down the value chain. Have a look at the design of their restrooms, it really is a breath of fresh air, so here she is Marielle Romeijn.

GUEST: MARIELLE ROMEIJN, CO-FOUNDER, ONE HUNDRED RESTROOMS

• https://onehundredrestrooms.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/onehundredrestrooms/ 

HOST: MATT MORLEY

• https://biofilico.com/
• https://biofit.io/

Welcome to episode 064 of the Green Healthy Places podcast in which we discuss the themes of wellbeing and sustainability in real estate and hospitality.

I’m your host Matt Morley and in this episode I’m talking to Gregorio Esteban, Founder of Miraval Holdings, a sustainable real estate developer committed to delivering high-quality, housing solutions for the Latin American market. 

As you’ll see, they are also big on Environmental, Social and Governance issues, known as ESG, with a particular emphasis on the social angle, given that they have five projects currently in Colombia, each at different stages of planning, construction and delivery.

Colombia has an acute housing shortage, so Miraval aim to help plug that gap with sustainable middle-class housing.

• GUEST: Gregorio Esteban / https://www.miraval.com.co/
• HOST: Matt Morley / https://biofilico.com/ 

Welcome to episode 063 of the Green & Healthy Places podcast in which we discuss the themes of wellbeing and sustainability in real estate and hospitality.

I’m your host, Matt Morley of Biofilico wellness real estate and in this episode we’re in Amsterdam talking to Nicholas White, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Smart Building Collective, a smart building and prop-tech business with its own certification framework focused on leveraging technology to measure how a real estate asset is performing.

It covers key metrics such as the building usage, its performance, the building environment, health and safety, user behavior and connectivity.

We discuss how a smart tech is at the heart of both sustainable green buildings and healthy buildings nowadays, as well as playing a role in real estate ESG strategies.

We also look at some of the more innovative real estate developments that he’s  been a part of recently that give a sense of where the world of adaptable, smart and future-proof buildings are going.

https://smartbuildingcollective.com/

Welcome to episode 062 of the Green & Healthy Place podcast in which we discuss the themes of wellbeing and sustainability in real estate and hospitality today.

I’m your host, Matt Morley of Biofilico wellness real estate and in this episode I’m in Ibiza talking to Chris Connors, Founder and Creative Director of OPO, a wellness tech studio applying the principles of mindfulness to daily life via psycho-acoustics, neuro-aesthetics and awareness practices. 

Belfast-born Chris is a psychotherapist, leadership coach and master in zen meditation. He has previously created projects for the likes of Prada, LVMH, Nike, Aesop, Kering and Net a Porter.  

Amongst other things, we discuss everything from their nature-based mindfulness portals scattered around various mixed-used developments in London, their multi-sensory quiet room in a coworking office and the meditative moments they create during the guest journey for luxury resorts and hotels.

https://www.opo.world/

Welcome to episode 61 of the Green & Healthy Places podcast in which we explore the themes of wellbeing and sustainability in real estate and hospitality.

I’m your host, Matt Morley, founder of Biofilico wellness real estate, and this week I’m in Athens talking to London-based Phanos Hadjikyriakou, Co-Founder and CEO of 2050 Materials, an online database of sustainable building materials and intelligent tools that help architects and designers in their efforts to create low-carbon, circular buildings and interiors.

We discuss the genesis of the company, the unmet need it addresses and the problems it tries to solve, such as toxic building materials and those that are especially damaging to the environment when viewed from a Life Cycle perspective, considering its extraction, use phase and disposal options at its end of life.

We also cover some of the many sustainable certification systems out there now for building products as well as how Artificial Intelligence could start to leverage this type of database to propose sustainable, healthy solutions to architects and designers in the not too distant future.

Check out 2050-materials.com while you’re listening along, you can find me at biofilico.com now let’s talk sustainable materials…

https://www.linkedin.com/company/2050-materials/ 

Welcome to episode 060 of the Green & Healthy Places podcast in which we discuss the themes of wellbeing and sustainability in real estate and hospitality. 

I’m your host Matt Morley, Founder of Biofilico wellness real estate and in this episode I’m in Australia talking to Suzie Barnett, CEO of Junglefy, a full service living infrastructure specialist focused on bringing more plants into our cities.

The company began life as a landscaping business and evolved over the last 13 years into one of the world’s leading green wall, green roof and urban greenery businesses.

We discuss the all-important ‘why’ behind integrating this type of abundant greenery into a building or public space; their involvement in scientific research studies quantifying Return On Investment on indoor breathing walls in terms of productivity, feelings of wellbeing and improvements in air quality; why it’s so important to consider upfront not just the initial investment cost on a living wall system, irrigation and lighting as well as ongoing maintenance; their ideas for sharing outdoor living facade maintenance costs with local councils in reflection of their community benefits and the outputs of their tech-enabled product development process in collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney.

Suzie is on the Board of the Living Future Institute of Australia, Chair of the Biophilic Design Initiative and was pivotal in establishing the Green Building Council of Australia. She’s an industry powerhouse in other words and this conversation didn’t disappoint.

GUEST / SUZIE BARNETT

• https://www.junglefy.com.au/
• https://www.instagram.com/junglefyourcities/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/junglefy-pty-ltd/

HOST / MATT MORLEY

• https://www.mattmorley.net/   
• https://biofilico.com/ 

Welcome to episode 59 of the green & healthy places podcast in which we explore the themes of wellbeing and sustainability in real estate and hospitality today.

This time around I’m in London talking to Tom Kendall, Associate Director of Wayward Plants, a London based landscape, art and architecture practice with a strong botanical bent.

Born and raised on a farm in Cornwall, Tom studied Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture (BSc) and the Royal College of Art (MA)

Our conversation covers their work creating biophilic public benches that convey a message about inner city air quality, large scale plant donations as an ethical business practice, designing botanically inspired playgrounds, their work designing a botanical memorial for Nelson Mandela in Liverpool and their nature-inspired sustainable interior concept for a Stella McCartney store.

• https://www.wayward.co.uk/
• https://www.instagram.com/waywardplants/
• 
  https://biofilico.com/ 
• https://www.mattmorley.net/ 

Discussion topics include circular design, waste management, wellness lighting, recycling, standardization challenges for sustainable lighting fixtures, and more.

• https://www.treaclestudio.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/treacle-studio-ltd/

Welcome to episode 57 of the Green & Healthy Places podcast in which we discuss the themes of wellbeing and sustainability in real estate and hospitality today. 

I’m your host, Matt Morley, Founder of Biofilico healthy buildings and today I’m in Munich, Germany talking to ex-athlete Katharina Naumann who is behind a new office gym concept focused on mental empowerment.

We discuss some of the tools for mental empowerment at work, both physical and mental , including the need to integrate movement in daily lifestyles, the importance of body connection and intuition, the benefits of meditation, the role of functional training in an overall fitness regime and the gap between standard office gym solutions such as a local membership and a carefully tailored office wellness space as Katharina envisions it.

If you enjoy this episode please hit like or subscribe, you can find me at biofilico.com and Katharina at goldkern.de, all links are in the show notes, now let’s get into it, here’s mental performance coach Katharina Naumann.

Welcome to the Green & Healthy Places podcast episode 56, I’m your host Matt Morley, Founder of Biofilico wellness real estate and in this episode I’m in London talking to boutique hotel expert Iain Ainsworth.

Iain is the Founder of The Aficionados (2015-present) a reference for travel culture and lifestyle that promotes neat edits of hotels, creators and craftsmen as well as its sister company White Line Hotels (2009-present) a marketing network for hoteliers.

He was previously Executive VP of Design Hotels from 2004-2008 and Regional Director of Sales and Marketing for Concorde Hotels from 2000-2004 so he’s a hospitality insider through and through.

I took the opportunity to take the temperature on wellness and sustainability in his corner of the industry today, so we cover everything from eco-friendly hotel amenities, sustainability certifications for hotels, the landscape hotel concept and various examples of sustainability initiatives from his member hotels in the Alps.

If you enjoy the episode hit like or subscribe, you can find me at biofilico.com and Iain at Theaficionados.com

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