People are the building's long-term return.

We are an independent advisory partnership for building projects. We apply environmental psychology and neuroscience to architecture. For our clients and the people who use their buildings, we define from published research what a building has to achieve.

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The founding

Built for people

We bring neuroscience into the first stage of a building project.

The health of a society depends on the care it gives its buildings.

Much of the risk in a building project lies in how the building affects the people who use it. Published research on these effects is rarely used in building projects.

We founded neuecon partners in 2026 to put this research to use.

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Our view

Evidence-based design is becoming a mark of quality.

A building affects the health, productivity and recovery of its occupants for as long as it stands.

The return of a building depends largely on the people who use it. Most buildings are still planned with little regard for them. We believe this will change.

Tenants, employees and investors will increasingly expect evidence that a building supports their health and productivity. Buildings that can provide it will stand out in the market.

Most of this effect is set in the first stages of a project and can hardly be changed once the building stands.

In these same stages, a project is approved on area, cost and programme. We add the requirements for the people who will use the building.

Office space with high daylight in Manhattan commands a rent premium of 5 to 6% over space with low daylight.

Turan and colleagues, 2019, Building and Environment

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What we do

Requirements for the long-term return

We set clear requirements for
what the building has to achieve.

We establish them with the client's management team before architects and engineers begin detailed design. They cover light, air, acoustics, temperature, layout, nature, materials and furniture, for the people who will live or work in the building.

We set checkpoints for the whole project, so that every team works from the same requirements. We aim to keep agreed requirements unchanged, leaving the teams free to build on them.

We work from scientific evidence.

We specialise in environmental psychology and neuroscience. We rely on published studies graded by The Built Review.

A building that works for the people
in it delivers a lasting return.

We aim for a building that people are comfortable in and that serves its purpose fully from the day they move in. With clear requirements at the start, we help the building keep its value long after the project is complete.

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Concrete Human: 'The city is colourblind', from the series Adjacent Solitude by the Norwegian photographer André Clemetsen.
Who we are

The founding partners

We combine architecture, psychology and strategy.

Markus Hölzl, Daiana Zamler and Christian Huser founded neuecon partners in 2026. We work from Tegernsee in Germany and from Madrid in Spain, and advise on projects in German, English and Spanish.

  • Markus Hölzl

    Markus Hölzl

    Architecture

    Markus is an architect and advises organisations and municipalities on their building projects. He leads our workshops with management teams and has long experience of complex building projects.

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  • Daiana Zamler

    Daiana Zamler

    Architecture (PhD), psychology

    Daiana holds a doctorate in architecture and specialises in environmental psychology. She created Design for Blooming and its framework for prioritising design decisions around human health. She leads our scientific work and turns the research into requirements and design principles for the project.

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  • Christian Huser

    Christian Huser

    Strategy and data analysis

    Christian publishes The Built Review, an evidence base for practice with more than 15,000 studies on buildings and health. He designs and builds the system with which we match its findings to the aims of each project.

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As we do not design, build or certify and earn nothing from what gets built, we can always act in the interest of our clients.

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Who we serve

Our clients

We advise organisations that are moving, expanding, consolidating or building new.

Our clients include companies, public authorities and building owners, as well as the developers, architects and other advisers who work with them. They plan offices, schools, hospitals and homes. Each building has its own purpose, and that purpose sets which of health, productivity and recovery counts most.

We join a project before the location is chosen and before detailed design begins.

Organisations

Advice on moves, expansions, consolidations and new buildings, from the first workshop with the management team to the brief for the architects.

Building owners and developers

Reports that allow you to present the benefits of a building to tenants, employees and investors.

Architects and other advisers

Reviews of a brief, of the evidence on one topic or of a building in use, before a project begins.

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Key facts

neuecon partners in figures

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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Research and culture

Our partners in research and culture

The Built Review, published by our co-founder Christian Huser, is the evidence base we work from. Concrete Human, which we started with The Built Review, is a photography exhibition on the built environment and human health.

Research and culture →
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Concrete Human: 'The sea gives me dreams', from the series Adjacent Solitude by the Norwegian photographer André Clemetsen.