We are an independent advisory partnership
for building projects.

We advise organisations that are forced into a real estate decision: relocating, expanding, consolidating or building new.

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Our approach

The return comes from the people.

We focus on what a building returns over its life. That means defining the conditions for people to live and work well.

We define what a building has to achieve for people before the location is chosen.

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Changes cost more than they achieve Ability to impact cost and functional capabilities Cost of changes
  1. 01 Project start
  2. 02 Project requirements
  3. 03 Location and property
  4. 04 Design team
  5. 05 Design and engineering
  6. 06 Construction
  7. 07 Occupation
  8. 08 Operation
Patrick MacLeamy, 2004, published by the Construction Users Roundtable and used in the American Institute of Architects' Integrated Project Delivery guide.
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Evidence

Our expertise is evidence.

We specialise in applying environmental psychology and neuroscience to architecture.

We work from the archive of The Built Review, with more than 15,000 published studies on buildings and health. We select the findings relevant to each type of building and the people who use it.

101%Higher cognitive scores in a green building with high outdoor air ventilationAllen and colleagues, Environmental Health Perspectives, 2016+42%Higher scores on decision-making tests for office workers in the better-daylit of two identical officesBoubekri and colleagues, IJERPH, 2020. Funded by View Inc.×2Self-reported work performance lost to noise, after moving to open planKaarlela-Tuomaala and colleagues, Ergonomics, 2009
−7%Lower learning performance at 33°C, measured in classroomsKim and colleagues, Building and Environment, 2020
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Project types

What we advise on

Most building projects begin with a change in the organisation. That is where we start from.

01Relocation
You are moving.
02Expansion
You need room for more people.
03Consolidation
You are reducing space.
04New Build
You are building something new.
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Who we are

The founding partners

Markus Hölzl, Daiana Zamler and Christian Huser founded neuecon partners in 2026. Their backgrounds are in architecture, environmental psychology and strategy.

  • Markus Hölzl

  • Daiana Zamler

  • Christian Huser

We believe the market will increasingly reward buildings designed for the health and productivity of their occupants.

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Key facts

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Studies in the evidence base
15,000+
Founded
2026
Disciplines: architecture, psychology, strategy
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Offices: Tegernsee, Germany and Madrid, Spain
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Languages: German, English, Spanish
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Stages we lead
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Next step

Starting a project

Our work on a new project begins with the three-week Decision Brief. From there, we develop the Strategic Project Blueprint and the Decision Rulebook. You can also commission the Brief Review, the Evidence Review or the Building Assessment on its own.

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ConcreteHuman

Loneliness in the
built environment.

With The Built Review, we started Concrete Human, a photography exhibition on how the built environment affects human health. Its first series, by the Norwegian photographer André Clemetsen, has 39 photographs and 25 poems.

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A woman and two children looking out of two windows between half-open curtains, in black and white
Concrete Human: 'The summer that never shines', from the series Adjacent Solitude by the Norwegian photographer André Clemetsen.