A building's success is determined before architecture begins.
From neuroscience
to building performance.
90% of an organization's value comes from its people. Their built environment shapes how they perform. We at neuecon work with scientific research to define what a building must achieve before the architect starts planning.
Intelligence Governance, Guidance, Performance We work here
Design Planning, execution
Environment The building in use
We work here
We are strategic advisory for the built environment. Not architecture. Not certification. Not design.
We work at the point when a project is defined politically, economically and institutionally. Before architects are hired and before capital is deployed. At this stage the direction is set. Changing it later costs multiples of getting it right now.
We define what the project must achieve, which rules the architect works within and how you know whether it delivers. Starting from who the organization is and what it wants to build.
We work for organizations who are about to invest in buildings and who want to shape how those buildings affect the people inside.
Some have a vision. Others already have a project but no clarity yet about what the future built environment must deliver. We work at that point. Before the direction is locked in.
Most projects treat them separately. We connect the three systems determining every building's performance before money is committed.
Buildings without health performance data are becoming hard to lease. Fitwel-certified offices command 4.6-4.8% higher rents. WELL-certified buildings show 28% higher occupant satisfaction. The gap between certified and uncertified assets is widening.
The largest cost in a building is not the rent. It is the salaries of the people inside. When poor acoustics or bad air reduce cognitive performance by a few percent, the financial impact is larger than the energy bill. Most organizations never measure this.
Schools where children learn better. Hospitals where patients recover faster. Public buildings that cost less to operate because people inside them are healthier. The research exists. It rarely reaches the people who decide what gets built.