Paul is the Founder and CEO of Delos, a company merging the world’s largest asset class – real estate – with the world’s fastest growing industry – wellness. After 18 years on Wall Street, including 10 years at Goldman Sachs as a Partner, Paul Scialla’s interest in sustainability and altruistic capitalism led him to found Delos. Since the company’s inception, Paul has become a leading voice in the wellness and sustainability movements, serving as a keynote speaker at prominent green building, real estate, and technology forums and conferences around the world. Paul is also the Founder of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), which administers the WELL Building Standard globally to improve human health and wellbeing through the built environment, a member of the Board of Directors for the Chopra Foundation, and a founding board member of the JUST Capital Foundation. Paul graduated from New York University with a degree in finance and currently resides in New York City.

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Paul’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-scialla/

Paul’s company: https://delos.com/

USGBC: https://www.usgbc.org/

In this episode, Paul Scialla talks about the value proposition of real estate and health. He discusses the best IAQ technology for healthy classrooms and the IAQ factors in overall health and wellness. He also speaks about wellness as a defined category in real estate.

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“I’m not a doctor. I’m not an architect. But getting those two fields together helped bring forth an understanding of better indoor environments and the impact on human health.”

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“Delos developed the WELL Building Standard to connect the built environment with the impact on respiratory, cardiovascular, immune, cognitive, digestive, and sleep health outcomes.”

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“Health and wellness innovations have been infused into just about every consumer product category. Why not real estate? The homes we buy, the offices we spend 8-10 hours a day in.”

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“We saw the LEED playbook with regard to environmental sustainability and wanted to take the best components of that and replicate it for human or biological sustainability in WELL.”

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“This was an economic value proposition that happened to come with a tremendous societal platform. Using our real estate to introduce preventative medical intentions seemed obvious.”

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“Human health and wellness in the built environment needs to be positioned as a right, not a privilege.”

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“Well Living Lab is a 50/50 founding collaboration between Mayo Clinic and Delos, a research facility driving evidence-based health and wellness in the built environment.”

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“Through the years, we’ve learned that indoor air quality tends to be two to five times worse than outdoor air quality. You’re not hiding from pollution by going inside.”

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“We built a classroom with desks, chairs, manikins and cough simulators with top aerosolized particle experts in the world to scientifically test pre- and post-intervention efficacy.”