Elina Grigoriou
Seminar: Promoting wellbeing through design
Elina Grigoriou is a London-based Interior Designer and Sustainability Expert who passionately believes that “fashionable” and “green” need not be mutually exclusive. A leading industry figure in interior design and environmental change, Elina is a RICS Accredited SKA rating assessor, and her support and technical involvement in the SKA rating initiative has been instrumental in bringing the system into effect. Voted one of the Top50 Rising Stars of Sustainability in Building magazine (March2012), Elina raises awareness of good design, wellbeing issues and sustainable practice to the industry.
Recent significant industry contributions include the 2014 WGBC report ‘Health Wellbeing and Productivity in Offices” and a 2014 FGF white paper ‘Wellbeing Matters; assessing views on the impact of the built environment on wellbeing.’ In March 2013, Grigoriou Interiors co-founded the Feeling Good Foundation with The Building Centre Trust following on from Elina’s efforts to raise awareness around the impacts of the built environment on wellbeing.
