neuecon is a strategic advisory
to derisk your building project.
We define what your building has to achieve
before the architect starts to work.
A building project succeeds or fails before the design starts.
The risks and costs of a building project are determined in the very early stages. The expensive mistakes are the ones made there and found years later. That is why we work before architects and engineers start.
Our expertise is based on science and facts.
Building from scientific evidence increases productivity and return.
101%
Higher cognitive scores in a green building with high outdoor air ventilation
+42%
Higher scores on decision-making tests for office workers in the better-daylit of two identical offices
×2
Self-reported work performance lost to noise, after moving to open plan
16 → 6
Work hours a month lost to asthma and allergies, before and after a move into a healthier building
Building design affects staff costs
more than you would expect.
For most organisations staff costs are several times the rent. In the same office, employees worked 16.9% better in a quiet area than in a busy one. Both areas were in one building, so the difference comes from how the space was designed, and an open layout that ignores noise doubles the work performance lost to it.
A building lasts thirty years or more, and what it does to the people inside happens on every one of those working days.
The numbers above come from The Built Review ↗. We built it and we edit it. It holds more than 15,000 published studies on what buildings do to the people in them.
Learn more about our expertise →This is who works on your project.
A building should be built for the way people actually work, and it rarely is, because the cheap option is the one that gets built. That is what brought us together, from architecture, environmental psychology and strategy. We run the workshops with your people together, all three of us in the room.
Markus Hölzl
Architecture, network
Markus works where a building meets the organisation that will use it. He finds the decision nobody has admitted is already made.
Daiana Zamler
Architecture (PhD), health and design
Daiana is specialised in environmental psychology and works from scientific research.
Christian Huser
Strategy, concept, data
Christian built The Built Review and edits it. It is where our evidence comes from.
Talk to us before the design starts.
Bring us the project you are about to decide on. The first conversation costs nothing and takes an hour, and you leave it knowing which decisions are still open and what they are worth.
Write to us Start with the Decision Brief
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