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Below:The light-filled Town Hall
space on the mid level of Mirvac’s
head office fit-out in the EY Centre.
initiatives have been incorporated to promote and
support the mental and physical health of the team.
These include:
• The use of over 15 SAMBA sensors throughout
to monitor the indoor environment and air quality.
• The internal café, The Song Kitchen, provides
healthy food options with high nutritional value,
healthy portion sizes and clear labelling. The café
is also Australia’s first profit for purpose initiative,
with 100% of the profits going to fund YWCA NSW
services for women and children experiencing
domestic violence.
• 75% of workstations are located within 7.5m of
a window, increasing access to natural light. Lights
are programmed for varying brightness and dark-
ness at appropriate points throughout the day to
maintain circadian rhythms.
• Safe and clean drinking water is provided
through proper filtration methods and is accessible
30m from regularly occupied spaces.
We’ve also found that innovative fitness features
are key to ensuring the happiness, health and well-
being of our tenants. A dedicated health and well-
ness educational seminar series is held in Mirvac’s
headquarters in which professionals educate staff on
health and wellbeing.
Pilates and yoga classes are offered twice a week
in the office with a professional instructor, as well as
an online wellness library with a range of health and
wellbeing literature.
Mirvac’s commitment to support the health of its
employees led to it achieving the first GOLD WELL
Certification for the new EY Centre headquarters,
from the International WELL Building Institute, as
well as several other sustainability accreditations.
The WELL Building Standard is the world’s first
building certification that focuses exclusively on
human health and wellness. It is an international
assessment method that encourages healthy eating
choices and active lifestyles, as well as promoting
natural light and a high standard of air quality,
based on seven years of scientific, medical and
architectural research.
WELL-certified facilities can help create a built
environment that improves the nutrition, fitness,
mood, sleep patterns and performance of workers.
Focusing on a range of scientific measurements,
such as how light is related to sleep/wake cycles
and how temperature affects an employee’s mental
health, the certification aims to encourage and
enable healthy habits.
After a year in operation, the Mirvac team had
participated in 62 pilates classes, four wellness
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