Healthier Buildings — Science-Backed Design
Your living and working environments shape your health, focus and wellbeing more than you realise.
NUEN helps you understand how healthy your spaces really are — and shows practical, evidence‑based insights and ways to improve them.
We have just launched NUEN AI, a brand-new tool that helps analyse buildings and guide healthier design decisions.
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 principles from environmental health science and the 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.
NUEN AI is our new, intelligent tool that analyses buildings and helps guide healthier design-decisions.
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
Understand how your building performs across key health factors such as air quality, light, materials and comfort.
NUEN tools analyse how your environment affects health and wellbeing.
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Understand
Receive clear insights into what is helping or harming your indoor environment.
NUEN translates environmental health science into practical, evidence-based insights.
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Improve
Access practical guidance and next steps tailored to your space.
From simple changes to deeper design improvements, NUEN helps guide healthier building decisions.
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.
NUEN AI is being developed with support from Innovate UK to bring architectural and environmental health expertise into a new digital tool.
Read more about the NUEN human team on the ‘About’ page or ask NUEN AI to introduce itself.
Who Is NUEN For?
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Project Leaders and Building Design Professionals
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 and Residents
Who want healthier, more comfortable homes, improved energy and better sleep.
Ready to understand how healthy your space really is?
NUEN helps turn environmental health science into practical insights to assist in creating healthy buildings, healthy cities and healthy places.
If you want deeper analysis and guidance, explore NUEN AI.
If you are a homeowner and simply curious about how your home performs, try our five-minute Healthy Home Quiz for a quick snapshot.