A Building Biologist is a professionally trained person who assesses your home or workplace for things that can interfere with your health.

We’re guided by a set of international bau-biologie standards that numerically describe the ideal healthy environment in terms of noise, infrasound, wireless signals, light, electricity, geomagnetic disturbances, chemicals and air pollutants.

Using a range of meters we look at how much the home or workplace differs from the ideal. Sometimes that’s because it’s too close to a cell phone tower, sometimes it’s the building materials that were used, sometimes it’s a mold problem, but usually there’s a combination of factors that make up the difference.

We’re often asked to make an assessment when someone connects their symptoms with a specific location. After the assessment we suggest ways that the space could be improved. Sometimes those suggestions target synthetic surfaces, sometimes electrical equipment, sometimes RF shielding, sometimes moisture, but usually the suggestions address a combination of factors.

The need to restore health to living spaces, lies in the impact those spaces have on the hormones responsible for ‘reading' and 'interpreting’ our surroundings. When our hormones interpret their surroundings as ‘unsafe’, relaxation and sleep become impossible and an awakened, stressed state results. Over time that stressed state contributes to ill health that no amount of nutrition and exercise can remedy.

In many ways building biology is the 21st century update on Feng Shui – an ancient Chinese art and science that evolved some 3000 years ago to explore the relationship between a person’s health and the earth’s energies. In our modern world the earth’s energies have been supplemented by a range of ‘synthetic energies’ as a result of modern communications, building practices, materials and the many products that we bring into our homes.

Much of modern-day Feng Shui has lost its energy component, turning instead to the symbolic representation of fire, wood, earth, metal and water by colours and textures, regardless of the materials used to create them. Building Biology has continued the energy focus of traditional Feng Shui to include today's electrically charged synthetic materials along with the other energy distortions that accompany the sounds, smells, lighting, transportation and communication of modern day living.