Derek Clements-Croome is Professor Emeritus in architectural engineering in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Reading, UK, and Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He worked in the building design and contracting industry for several years before entering university life. He has founded and directed courses including a BSc in building environmental engineering at Loughborough University in 1970 and an inter-disciplinary EPSRC-sponsored MSc in Intelligent Buildings at Reading University in 1996. He has also worked in architecture and building engineering at the University of Bath, UK (1978-1988).

He now offers strategic advice to clients, designers and facilities managers on attaining and managing healthy and sustainable environments in buildings of all types. He researches, writes and lectures on these issues for companies, universities and wider audiences nationally and internationally in China, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Poland and Finland particularly. Some of his books have been published in Chinese and Russian. He edits and founded the Intelligent Buildings International journal first published by Taylor and Francis in 2009.

Derek is a Commissioner on air quality and biodiversity for the boroughs of Hammersmith-Fulham and for the Zero-Fifty Commission for Haringey. He is also Building Environmental Expert for the CABE arm of the Design Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and also the BRE Academy.

He was a member of the UK Green Building Council team that wrote the report Health and Wellbeing in Homes July 2016 and the World Green Building Council Report 2014 on Health Wellbeing and Productivity in Offices.

Foreword Preface Part 1: Health, Well-Being and Productivity Landscape 1. Effects of the Built Environment on Health and Wellbeing Derek Clements-Croome 2. The Business Case for Sustainable Healthy Buildings Derek Clements-Croome 3. The Multi-Sensory Experience in Buildings Briony Turner, Derek Clements-Croome, and Kay Pallaris 4. Pleasure and Joy, and their Role in Human Life Michel Cabanac 5. User-Centred Workspace Design: Applications of environmental psychology to space for work Jacqueline Vischer 6. Change Makers: rethinking the productive workplace through an art and design lens Jeremy Myerson Part 2: Research Evidence 7. Lessons from Schools for Productive Office Environments: the SIN model Peter Barrett 8. Effects of Indoor Air Quality on Decision Making Usha Satish and Piers MacNaughton 9. Workplace Productivity: Fatigue and Satisfaction Shin-ichi Tanabe and Naoe Nishihara 10. Proving the Productivity Benefits of Well-Designed Offices Nigel Oseland 11. Optimising Wellbeing and Productivity through an Ergonomics Based Approach Stephen Bowden 12. Lighting For Productive Workplaces Jennifer Veitch 13. Intelligent workplaces Vivian Loftness et al 14. Thermal and IAQ Effects on School and Office Work Pawel Wargocki and David Wyon 15. Measuring the IEQ Contribution to Productivity and Wellbeing Vyt Garnys, Travis Hale and Adam Garnys Part 3: Experiential Evidence from Surveys and Building Case Studies 16. A Visual Language of the Workplace Peter Bacevice, Hannah Beveridge and Liz Burow 17. The People-Building Interface: It's a Two Way Street Judith Heerwagen, Kevin Kampschroer, Bryan Steverson and Brian Gilligan 18. Workplace: A Tool for Investment Kevin Reader 19. Productivity in Buildings: the Killer Variables - twenty years on Adrian Leaman and Bill Bordass 20. Enjoy Work: A Case Study on Chiswick Park Jason Margrave, Ron German and Kay Chaston 21. The Arup Experience of Workplace Design Ann-Marie Aguilar, Vicki Lockhart, Mallory Taub and Michael Stych 22. Achieving Holistic Sustainability: considering wellness alongside resource use in buildings Jennifer McArthur 23. Making the Economic Case for Good Design of Workplaces Sarah Daly 24. Building Performance: the Value Management Approach Part 4: Future Horizons 25. Stranger Than We Can Imagine: the future of work and place in the 21st Century Mark Eltringham 26. How to Prevent Todays Ergonomic Office Problems in the Future Veerle Hermans 27. Future Landscapes Despina Katsikakis 28. Coda Derek Clements-Croome