Projects

Environmental measurement for the biocompatible reform of an office building

04 abril 2025

The Consell Comarcal del Vallès Oriental is renovating a building to house its headquarters and has hired Biohabita! to advise them on achieving a space with criteria of well-being, comfort and health. This work was achieved through a public tender competing with other professionals. It should be noted that one of the differential features compared to other professionals that the convening entity…

Barnahus for Sant Joan de Déu

18 febrer 2025

Biohabita! we have carried out the preliminary pilot project of a Barnahus for Sant Joan de Déu. Barnahus is the Nordic model of comprehensive care for children and adolescents who have witnessed or suffered abuse. It was born 25 years ago in Iceland. Barnahus is ‘children’s house’ in Icelandic. Catalonia participates in the European Barnahus network. This model gives a special importance to the space where…

Inclusion of environmentalisation, industrialization and health criteria in the public works tender for the provision of social housing. Biohabitat! with the DiBA

20 novembre 2024

The Diputació de Barcelona has drawn up specifications for the public tender for social housing with environmental criteria (sustainability and energy efficiency), industrialization and health. Biohabitat! She was responsible for the health part of the specifications, the drafting of which was led by Societat Orgànica. The aim is to contribute resources to the municipal world through the training of its technicians in…

Acoustic sectorization for family living

28 juny 2024

Biohabita we have carried out an acoustic sectorization action in a home in Barcelona. Two different units of the same family wanted a completely independent daily dynamic, each using a floor of the same duplex home. The objective was to acoustically separate the two floors by sectoring the current interior staircase, maintaining a connecting door. DIVISIONS. A dry partition system…

ARCHITECTURE WEEK 2024: Do you know what happens when you talk on the cell phone? Sources of electromagnetic pollution inside the home and strategies to reduce them

17 maig 2024

WHAT: ARCHITECTURE WEEK-2024 begins! WHERE: • Institut Moisès Broggi (Sant Martí, Barcelona) • Institut la Salle Congrés (Sant Andreu, Barcelona) • Institut Torrent de les Bruixes (Santa Coloma de Gramenet) • Institut Escola Puig i Gairalt (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat) • Col·legi Sant Josep (Sant Sadurní d’Anoia) WHEN: Architecture Week, from 9 to 19 May 2024 During this month of May, a total…

Radon Measurement in a basement in Sant Marti area, Barcelona

07 març 2024

Measurement of radon gas in a unit located in a semi-basement in the neighborhood of Sant Martí (Barcelona). The reference values ​​follow the SBM2015 of the IBN. WHAT HAVE WE FOUND? Regarding the radon gas the readings were strong: 468 Becquerels in the unit. WHAT SHOULD BE FOUND Radon gas: readings should be below 60 Becquerels but the ideal would be…

Gynecological office in Barcelona

22 febrer 2024

Biohabitate! Together with ORDEIC engineering, we have designed a gynecological office in Barcelona. Special care has been taken in the lighting environment of the space. Regarding natural lighting and given that the visual needs of medical tasks could only be achieved with artificial lighting, an attempt has been made to maximize the sensation of contact with the outside. The entire façade has…

REHABILITACIÓ ENERGÈTICA AMB FONS NEXT GENERATION

12 gener 2024

Hem fet la rehabilitació energètica a un habitatge unifamiliar entre mitgeres a Sant Iscle de Vallalta. Què hem fet? Hem Millorat les condicions de confort de l’habitatge. Aprofitant les parets de tapia existents, amb una excel·lent inèrcia tèrmica, hem rehabilitat la teulada i algunes finestres alhora que reubicat la caldera de pellets per millorar el seu rendiment. Hem Sol·licitat els…

IMPROVE YOUR OFFICE: AIR!

28 desembre 2023

Do you know that the quality of the indoor air determines the result of your work? Give me a breath! We need about 20 m3 of air per day1. Although it depends a lot on the type of person, it is accepted as a general criterion that an individual at rest breathes 6 liters of air per minute and 16 liters…