GREEN BUILDING DEVELOPMENT

Our home, both the location and the physical building itself, affects almost every aspect of our lives - from how well we sleep, how often we see friends, to how safe and secure we feel. If we want to improve the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities, there is hardly a more important place to start than home: this is where most people spend most of their lives.

They also emphasize that there is more than just physical things in our building codes:

The World Health Organization defines health not only as the absence of ill health but as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being". Therefore, we have interpreted "health and well-being" to include social, psychological and physical factors.

It's also about more than just a house, but also about the community. Physical health can be described as the absence of disease, as well as the optimal functioning of our body. Mental health is more than the absence of mental illness