Office well-being research cited in BRANZ study report on building for wellbeing, New Zealand (2025)

Description of impact

The 2016 review of indoor environmental quality and occupant well-being (Al Horr, Arif, Katafygiotou, Mazroei, Kaushik and Elsarrag, 2016) synthesised the office-environment factors that affect physical and mental health. BRANZ, the New Zealand building research body funded under the Building Research Levy Act 1969, published Study Report SR493 "Building for wellbeing: a review of the literature" in 2025 as the evidence base for its levy-funded wellbeing programme. The report cites the review as a source on office environments and again in its section on internal environments and employee wellbeing. BRANZ research informs the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Building Code development.

Category of impact	Health and welfare, Practitioners and professional services