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Research in policy and practice · No. 131 · 2025
Healthy-building research in New Zealand’s wellbeing evidence base
BRANZ · Building Research Levy · Te Hotonga Hapori
- Role
- Workplace-wellbeing evidence
- Host
- BRANZ · Building Research Levy · Te Hotonga Hapori
- Publication
- Building for wellbeing — a review of the literature · SR493
- Contribution
- Workplace-wellbeing evidence
- Evidence
- 2025 · Section 4.2.1, printed page 19 · Reference page 35
Research reaching practice
BRANZ uses Professor Amir’s sick-building-syndrome review in its examination of wellbeing and the built environment.
How the research was used
The workplace section cites the review for symptoms associated with indoor environments, including headaches, lethargy and irritation. This provides part of the evidence connecting internal building conditions with employee wellbeing.
The documented contribution
2025 · Section 4.2.1, printed page 19 · Reference page 35. A contribution to the review’s health evidence, rather than authorship of the BRANZ report or an adopted workplace standard.
Research and coauthor credit
Sick building syndrome: are we doing enough? — Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini; Husam AlWaer; Hossein Omrany; Ali Ghaffarianhoseini; Chaham Alalouch; Derek Clements-Croome; John Tookey. DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2018.1461060
