你知道一个人大约70%的健康是由他的社会和生活环境决定的吗?
据世界卫生组织称，空气污染、水污染和人工闪电是导致慢性疾病、疾病甚至死亡的三大因素。
如今，据估计，人类90%的时间都呆在室内，这表明建筑环境可能是对我们的健康和福祉最大的贡献者之一。
意识到这一点后，家居设计发生了转变，包括一个以前被忽视的领域:健康。
在家里的健康控制中心
创新家居建筑商西蒙兹家居公司(Simonds Homes)是这一行为的先驱，该公司最近推出了全球首个家居“健康智能”平台，作为其基本家居包装的标准。
Simonds homes首席执行官兼董事总经理凯尔文·瑞恩(Kelvin Ryan)表示:“为人类健康和福祉优化住宅，可以对居住者产生终生的积极影响。”
该系统被称为Delos自动化房地产健康智能网络(DARWIN)，由全球健康房地产领导者Delos创建。它的特点是家庭自动化，可以监测和控制空气和水质，以及模仿太阳的自动“昼夜节律”照明。
Delos的CEO兼创始人Paul Scialla说:“长达七年的室内环境如何影响我们的健康和幸福的研究为DARWIN家庭健康智能系统提供了科学支持。”
Ryan补充说:“像DARWIN平台这样的创新产品对于推动行业向前发展至关重要，并且有潜力真正改变澳大利亚的健康家居运动。”
预防疾病的措施
家庭空气污染是全球五大环境健康风险之一。
世界卫生组织(World Health Organisation)估计，每年有380万人因非传染性疾病过早死亡，五岁以下儿童因肺炎过早死亡的50%是由于暴露于家庭空气污染。
同样，水容易受到生物、化学和矿物污染物的污染，这些污染物对人类和环境健康都是有害的。
澳大利亚传统的水处理并不总是有效地去除污染物，污染物也可以通过配水基础设施引入。
Simonds Homes认为，建筑环境，尤其是DARWIN系统，可以作为预防这些疾病的工具，业主们也同意这一观点。
Melbourne-first倡议
Scialla说，墨尔本之所以成为世界上第一个采用DARWIN系统的家庭住宅的城市，是基于该市对绿色倡议的强烈接受，以及对健康和福祉的意识，以及西蒙兹之家的支持和热情。
2016年11月，墨尔本雷暴引发的哮喘事件造成9人死亡，35人在重症监护室接受治疗。该事件也促使该平台尽快推出，为哮喘患者在家中提供自动空气控制，以应对未来类似事件的影响。
“墨尔本也是Simonds Home总部的所在地，我们想先在家乡开始我们的内部健康中心。”我们的整个事业重新将我们的精神集中到更健康、更幸福的生活上。
瑞安说:“从我们的文化到我们的支持服务，从我们的办公室员工到我们的展示之家团队，我们正在向健康发展。”
“我们现在在整个企业中推动这个概念，拥抱整个理念和DARWIN系统，为我们的客户提供健康理念和智能设计。”
由Simonds Homes提供
Simonds Homes是由Gary Simonds于1949年创建的，他在过去65年的时间里不断拓展业务。Simonds Homes是维多利亚州最大的独立住宅建筑商之一，业务遍及新南威尔士州、昆士兰州和澳大利亚南部。西蒙兹的住宅在标准的包含物、平面图、空间设计和结构保证等方面一直处于市场领先地位，他们一直在寻找新的方式为澳大利亚人建造更好的住宅。
<Simonds Homes, 05 Feb 2019>
Air pollution, water contamination and artificial lightning are three major contributors of chronic illness, disease and even death, according to the World Health Organisation.
Nowadays, it’s estimated that humans spend 90% of their time indoors, indicating that the built environment is potentially one of the largest contributors to our health and wellbeing.
This realisation has seen a shift in home design to include a previously neglected area: Wellness.
Wellness control centres in our homes
Innovative home builder, Simonds Homes, is pioneering the movement, recently launching the world’s first in-home ‘Wellness Intelligence’ platform as a standard in its base home packages.
“Optimising homes for human health and wellbeing can have a lifelong positive effect on the occupants,” says Kelvin Ryan, CEO and Managing Director of Simonds Homes.
The system, known as the Delos Automated Real Estate Wellness Intelligence Network (DARWIN), was created by global leaders in wellness real estate, Delos. It features home automation that monitors and controls air and water quality, and automatic ‘circadian’ lighting to mimic the sun.
“The DARWIN Home Wellness Intelligence system is scientifically backed by seven years of research on how our indoor environments can impact our health and wellbeing,” says Delos CEO and founder Paul Scialla.
“Innovative products like the DARWIN platform are critically important to enabling the industry to move forward, and have the potential to truly revolutionise the healthy home movement in Australia,” Ryan adds.
A preventative measure against illness
Household air pollution is among the top five environmental health risks across the globe.
The World Health Organisation estimates that 3.8 million premature deaths from noncommunicable diseases and 50% of premature deaths due to pneumonia in children under five years old are due to exposure to household air pollution each year.
Similarly, water is vulnerable to pollution by biological, chemical, and mineral contaminants that are harmful to both human and environmental health.
Conventional water treatment in Australia does not always remove contaminants effectively, and pollutants can also be introduced through the water distribution infrastructure.
Simonds Homes believes the built environment, and the DARWIN system in particular, can be used as a preventative tool against these illnesses – and home owners are on board.
Melbourne-first initiative
Scialla says the decision to make Melbourne the world’s first city to host family homes with the DARWIN system had been based on a strong uptake of green initiatives in the city and an awareness of health and wellbeing, as well as the support and enthusiasm from Simonds Homes.
Melbourne’s thunderstorm-related asthma event of November 2016 – which killed nine people and left 35 in intensive care – was also a kicker to roll out the platform as soon as possible, offering asthma sufferers automated air control in their homes to combat the effects of future similar events.
“Melbourne is also where the Simonds Homes head offices are located and we wanted to start our internal wellness focus in our home state first. Our entire business has refocused our ethos toward living a healthier and happier life.
“From our culture to our support services, and from our office-based staff to our display homes team, we’re making the move to wellness,” Ryan says.
“We are now pushing wellness throughout the organisation, embracing the entire concept and DARWIN, offering wellness philosophy and smart design for our clients.”
Presented by Simonds Homes
Simonds Homes was established in 1949 by Gary Simonds who has grown the business over the last 65 years. Simonds Homes is one of the largest detached home builder in Victoria with operations in New South Wales, Queensland and SouthAustralia. Standard inclusions, floorplans, space design and structural guarantees are all areas in which Simonds Homes has been leading the market, as they continually seek new ways to build better homes for Australians.
