Ordinary Portland cement is available worldwide and has become the most widely used material in construction. Engineers have been educated in its use not only for civil engineering but also for building and construction, and guidance for its use is widely available. During the past years, with society’s developing conscience on sustainability, lots of fingers have been pointed towards Portland cement because of its tremendous environmental footprint. Despite this, one must admit that the popularity of this material is one that has been well earned because of many

If I asked you to close your eyes and imagine yourself in a relaxing environment, odds are that the environment you just picked incorporates several natural features like the presence of plants, the sea and its gentle breeze, a fireplace with its crackling sound, … You’ve most likely heard before that humans are instinctively drawn to nature. Biophilia describes this innate human-nature connection. Biophilia is being introduced into buildings through biophilic design, a practice that uses nature-inspired design methods to awaken our inherent affinity to nature to make us feel emotionally

Biohabitability is a discipline that studies, measures and evaluates the environmental factors that impact our health. Biohabitability describes spaces that achieve to be livable from a human biology point of view. Applying biohabitability is all about learning how our organism works and applying it to our indoors to obtain biotic spaces. The technological advances made in construction during the past decades have, accidentally, been working in the opposite direction. This has raised the need to bring forward biohabitability in our built environment. “Health is the unit that gives