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Air pollution is a growing risk factor, it is essential to reflect on how the spaces we live in can have a direct impact on our health

Ajuntament de Barcelona is committed to the health of its spaces with the Friendly Materials® Certification at the Centro Diagnóstico Psicológico Tetuán.

Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu is committed to including parameters that promote the health of its users, opting for the Friendly Materials® Certification at the RISE Center.

How can health criteria be incorporated into the choice of finishes? Friendly Materials® at ARCHITECT@WORK Madrid 2024

FM® at the MATCOAM Masterclass on Healthy Architecture

MATTER publishes the report on the Healthier Materials cycle where Friendly Materials was present as a speaker

Friendly Materials participa en el evento Taller Moodboard MATCOAM con Materiales Saludables organizado en el Colegio de Arquitectos de Madird por el MATCOAM

We published in Hospitecnia an article on the choice of materials in our projects

Addition of new materials to the Friendly Materials library

Friendly Materials present as a speaker at the Postgraduate course in Architecture and Health organized by the COAC within the framework of the Escola Sert in Barcelona

"Architecture against the coronavirus" Friendly Materials® live on national TV.

Building materials that help the healing process

Guide for the creation of healthy urban environments, with the participation of the Friendly Materials team.

The matter of this lecture is how we can introduce a health criteria in the building materials choice thanks to Friendly Materials®.

The Archiboo Web Awards 2019 has selected our website Friendly Materials as the winner of the category 'Best Consultants Website', internationally recognizing it as the best consulting platform in the field of architecture.

Friendly Materials website is a finalist in Archiboo Web Awards 2019 for the ‘Best Consultants Website’ category, which awards the best consultancy platforms in the field of architecture.

Friendly Materials® is highlighted at the iF Social Impact Prize web, an initiative of iFDesign.

Rita Barata explained how PMMT is committed to innovation to improve people's health and highlighted Friendly Materials® as our method for designing and building indoor spaces that actively contribute to the health of its occupants.

Friendly Materials® has the honor of being published in Matimex' book called Matimex PLUS.

Friendly Materials® has the honor of being published in the Krion's book edited by Krion Solid Surface, S.A.

Rita Barata, Friendly Materials®' Manager at PMMT, has offered a lecture to the students at the ETSAM.

Rita Barata was the first guest speaker of the first "Woman in Office Design, Chapter Spain", a movement that aims to give visibility for women's talent and share professional experiences in the office design sector.

Rita Barata, Friendly Materials' Manager, participated in the BB Construmat 2019 by dint of the "Stand 5.0" of the Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya-COAC

Rita Barata, Friendly Materials® Manager, spoke the last 4th of April in the "Healthcare Arquitecture and Empathy" conference organized by MATCOAM.

Diputació de Barcelona, Clínica Corachan, Institut Marquès, Makiber and FCC Citizen Services are the companies that help us to build a healthier world.

Rita Barata, Friendly Materials® Manager at PMMT, has offered a lecture to the students of the 'Design Through New Materials' master in ELISAVA.

Rita Barata, architect and Friendly Materials® Manager at PMMT, was a speaker at TEDxBarcelona - Solutions for tomorrow: “How do building materials affect the air we breathe”.

Jordi Cunill, BIM Manager at PMMT Forward Thinking Architecture, was the overall winner of the Gran Prize Andorra 2018 for Catalan Sailing Catamaran.

Rita Barata, architect and Friendly Materials Manager at PMMT, will be one of the speakers at the TEDxBarcelona that will take place the 5th of October in Barcelona.

Together with the launch of the new website, Friendly Materials® begins this autumn an intense communication agenda by participating in international conferences and lecture events. Madrid, Barcelona, Nijmegen (Netherlands), Zaragoza and Andorra are the first European cities where the Friendly Materials’ methodology will pe presented.

Friendly Materials® is the result of a 3-year research process, developed by PMMT Forward Thinking Healthcare Architecture, an architecture firm based in Barcelona and Madrid that is deeply committed to R&D.

Get to know our Friendly Materials® and PMMT team and find out how we work at the most healthy and inclusive office of Barcelona.

On Tuesday, June 26th, in Madrid, Luis Gotor, associate architect of PMMT, together with the architect and Friendly Materials® Manager, Rita Barata, participated in the 'Efficiency and safety day at work: the value of healthy and accessible environments', aimed at large companies, and with which PMMT positioned itself as a benchmark in the design of healthy and inclusive workspaces.

BBC World tells you what sick building syndrome is and how it affects your health. It's not as volatile or as rare as some think...

The PMMT's architect and Friendly Materials® Manager Rita Barata spoke about this tool of assessment, evaluation and objective comparison of how building materials affect the health of the spaces and their occupants.

Half of the world's population lives in polluted cities and spends 90% of their time indoors even more polluted.

The prestigious online magazine MIT Technology Review (ES) has dedicated to us an extensive interview where Rita Barata, architect and Friendly Materials® Manager at PMMT.

On February 22nd happened the first edition of the Healthy spaces, Inclusive spaces: Tools and solutions to improve the lives of people conference in the Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili and brought together professionals from different fields