BUILD FOR HEALTH
A healthy home begins here.
The building envelope is your foundation for health and wellness. How your building performs is the indicator of whether it supports your health. How your home is designed dictates the connection between your body and the environment. Architectural conditions that are conducive to healing, shape and inspire wellness. Nurtured Nests will help you to get it right from the start with tried-and-true architectural traditions and building science principles.
Nurtured Nests brings specialized building-health expertise to the development process—from site selection and due diligence through entitlement, planning, construction, and occupancy—integrating building science, material health, and building biology throughout.
Working alongside your project team, we help translate health priorities into practical building decisions that consider code, performance, constructability, budget, and long-term resilience.
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Build health into the project from the start.
Building for Health: A Holistic Approach
A healthy building is the result of interconnected decisions. Nurtured Nests considers the relationship between the site, external environmental conditions, and the built environment—including the building envelope, mechanical systems, electrical and plumbing systems, moisture management, and materials—through the combined disciplines of building science, material health, and building biology.
Nurtured Nests helps create homes that nurture occupant health by avoiding building conditions that contribute to premature failure, and toxic exposures from harmful chemicals, biological contaminants, and electromagnetic pollution.
Throughout the development process, we bring specialized expertise and independent advocacy to the project. Working alongside the project’s architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, and specialty trades, we help keep the client’s priorities represented as the project evolves.
Our consulting addresses the elements that have the greatest influence on occupant health and long-term building performance, including site and drainage conditions, building-envelope assemblies, waterproofing, insulation and air sealing, HVAC and ventilation, filtration and humidity control, water quality, health-conscious electrical planning, material specifications, construction protocols, and pre-occupancy preparation.
Early involvement creates the opportunity to evaluate healthier solutions alongside code, cost, constructability, schedule, and long-term performance while the project still has the flexibility to make informed decisions. This foresight can help prioritize investment, identify cost-effective solutions, reduce avoidable changes and corrective work, and carry the client’s original objectives through implementation.
Clients often come to Nurtured Nests with health, sustainability, or lifestyle priorities that require consideration beyond conventional construction practices. Nurtured Nests provides an experienced advocate who understands those priorities and can help translate them into actionable requirements for the professionals responsible for the project. Rather than approaching individual products or systems in isolation, we consider how decisions work together within the building and how they ultimately affect the people who will live there.
All recommendations are based upon research, testing and experience – all to an end where the building’s architecture fulfills an instrumental role towards healing and longevity. The result is a more intentional, durable, and resilient home—one built for longevity, reduced unwanted exposures, a healthier indoor environment, and greater resilience to changing environmental conditions.
Build with foresight. Build for resilience. Build for health.
How We Work
Whether a new build, retrofit, or remodel, every project is different, and the right approach depends on where you are in the development process.
Nurtured Nests offers two ways to engage our building-health expertise.
Comprehensive Project Consulting
For new construction, major renovations, and complex projects where building health is a priority from the outset.
Nurtured Nests becomes an ongoing resource to the owner and project team, helping establish building-health priorities early and providing continuity through all phases of the project.
Early involvement creates the greatest opportunity to integrate health-centered strategies efficiently—before major decisions are embedded in plans, specifications, contracts, budgets, and the building itself.
Building Health Audit
Already have plans and a project team in place?
Nurtured Nests provides focused consulting for projects already in planning, preconstruction, or construction.
We review the existing project documents and provide prioritized, actionable recommendations for coordination with the appropriate project professionals.
For projects already underway, we focus on meaningful improvements that can still be implemented without unnecessarily redesigning or disrupting the project.
This review provides an efficient way to add specialized expertise and an independent perspective to an established project team.