September 2019: Issue 197

When we heard that leading Spanish furniture manufacturer, Actiu, is aiming to become the first industrial park in the world to receive the WELL Certification, we immediately thought, ‘We’ve got a two-for-the-price-of-one story here!’ Not only is this a fantastic wellbeing case study, it’s also a fascinating focus on a great furniture business.

Leading furniture designer, Hilary Birkbeck, has a particular PET project that promises to have a major impact on how we approach material use.

I have a slightly different take than most I hear today about managing mental fitness in the work environment, Arkeo CEO, Jana Dowling, tells us.

The definition of ‘inclusion’ often focuses on removing physical barriers that make buildings and spaces accessible to as broad a range of people as possible. This is obviously vital to boosting diversity and creating spaces that are fair, but surely we also need to ensure that our buildings are sensitive to mental health and neurodiversity issues as well as other hidden disabilities. However, in practical terms, how do we achieve this? Helen Berresford, Head of ID:SR, has the answers.

The world of advertising is a fast moving one, and so creative innovation agency, Iris, knows that it needs to continuously progress and evolve in order to stay ahead of the game – hence the business’ tag line, ‘For the forward’. Iris doesn’t just apply this philosophy to its clients, but to its own business too.

Talking exclusively to Mix, Aviva’s global property analyst, Jonathan Bayfield, explains why everything in your world is about to be completely different. Words: David Thame