Healthier Buildings — Science-Based Design
Your living and working environments shape your health, focus and wellbeing more than you realise.
NUEN helps homeowners and forward‑thinking professionals understand how healthy their spaces really are — and shows practical, evidence‑based insights and ways to improve them.
What Is NUEN?
NUEN (Nourishing Environments) is a digital platform created by a certified healthy buildings architect - and a team of project associates - to make evidence-based design knowledge accessible, practical and actionable.
Using science-backed principles from environmental health science and latest innovation in architectural design, NUEN helps architects, project leaders, developers, organisations, workplace leaders and home-owners understand how their spaces affect occupant health – and what to do about it.
This is not interior design or lifestyle advice. It’s grounded, expert guidance based on how buildings actually impact the quality of our air, water, light and atmosphere; and how profound these impacts are on our energy levels, quality of sleep, moods, health symptoms, fitness, recovery and long-term wellbeing.
Why Healthy Buildings Matter
We now spend over 80% of our lives indoors. Poor indoor environments have been linked to illness, stress, reduced productivity and long-term health issues – often without us realising the building itself is the cause.
Healthy buildings are no longer a luxury or a future trend. They are becoming essential for homes, workplaces and communities that want to support human health and resilience.
NUEN helps you get ahead of this shift – before poor building performance quietly affects our wellbeing.
How It Works
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Assess
Take a short “Healthy Home Assessment” to understand how your space performs across key health factors.
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Understand
Receive clear insights into what’s helping or harming your indoor environment.
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Improve
Access practical guidance, reports and next steps tailored to your space – from simple changes to deeper assessments.
Trust & Expertise
NUEN is created by Ulla Tervo & a Team of Project Associates. Ulla is a qualified architect (ARB) with over 25 years’ of experience in London and the South-East. She is a trained specialist in healthy buildings (WELL AP) .
This platform is informed by peer-reviewed research, industry standards and real-world architectural practice – not trends or opinion.
Read more on the ‘About’ page.
Who Is NUEN For?
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Architects, Project Leaders, Developers
Looking to integrate healthy building principles, increase property value or obtain certification.
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Organisations and Workplace Leaders
Exploring healthier environments and productivity without full certification routes.
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Homeowners
Who want healthier, more comfortable homes, improved energy and better sleep.
