09:00 to 10:36 · 1m 36s
Mind fitness, not mental health.
"Two suicides per day for construction workers in the UK." Tom on the paradigm shift the industry has to make, from stigma to investment.
In conversation · Snug Sessions, DL78
The ideas behind the work, in Tom's words.
A 32-minute round-table on the social value of buildings, with Tom Storey, Sam Colson (Derwent London) and Paul Lynchhorn (Laing O'Rourke). Below: the full conversation, with Tom's chapters timestamped, and four highlights pulled out as short video clips.
The chapters
Nine chapters in Tom's contribution.
Click any chapter to jump the audio there. Four chapters have a video clip; tap Watch clip to see them inline.
Highlights
Four moments worth keeping.
Pulled directly from the conversation. Each runs under two minutes.
22:41 to 24:31 · 1m 50s
Where Ownminder came from.
The origin story for the Mind Fitness platform: three levels of attitudinal change, and why "as long as it's a positive contributory factor, we should do it."
17:45 to 19:14 · 1m 29s
What ESG actually changed.
From regulatory floor to investment incentive. Why the customer is now the one demanding sustainable buildings, and why that's the bigger commercial unlock than the legislation ever was.
30:46 to 31:42 · 0m 56s
Argent and the flow.
King's Cross as a placemaking case study. Why the public realm at Argent's scheme feels intentionally different, what that costs, and what it pays back.
About this conversation
Recorded for Snug Sessions at DL78, Derwent London.
Snug Sessions is a series of round-tables on architecture, the built environment and beyond, hosted by Derwent London at their DL78 venue in Camden. This episode brought Tom Storey together with Sam Colson, Senior Sustainability Manager at Derwent London, and Paul Lynchhorn, Project Director at Laing O'Rourke, to discuss the social value of buildings.
The chapters above mark Tom's contributions specifically. His and Sam's exchanges on construction-sector mental health led directly to the partnership with Cognacity and Legal & General that became the Construction Wellbeing Programme, the first investor-led response to the industry's mental-health crisis in the UK.
Tom Storey founded Storey Consulting in 2018. He is the operator behind Opportunity Platform and Ownminder, the firm's two product platforms.
What's next
From a conversation to a delivered programme.
The ideas in this conversation aren't theory for us. They're the methodology that runs across Stanhope's Oxford North, Greystar's Pearl Yard, Derwent London's Network and Legal & General's Wellbeing Programme. If you'd like to see what alignment looks like on a live development, the work pages are the place to start.