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Fitwel Announces 2024 Best in Building Health Winners
Fitwel proudly presents the 2024 Best in Building Health Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in real estate operations and design that have been proven to improve quality of life and maximize value. PGIM Real Estate, Blackstone Real Estate's ESG leadership, Green Matrix Consulting Company, Aldar, Harrison Street, Evolution Sustainability Group, and other notable organizations are recognized for their defining excellence in building health for all.
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Putting People at the Center to Drive Value for Real Estate | Defining ‘S’ in Six Targeted Outcomes
There is a proven link between health and value. The research team at the Center for Active Design has been undertaking a years-long process to examine two critical questions facing the real estate industry: what is the quantifiable value of health? and how can climate change and quality of life coexist? Learn about our new framework connecting health-promoting goals to economic value creation in our second issue of Building Health, Expanding the Evidence.
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Fitwel Help Center: v3 Preview
Take a first look at Fitwel Standard v3! Version 3 reflects insights from the latest public health research and data-based evidence substantiating the valuable link between health and the built environment. Visit our Help Center to learn more.
Recent Posts
Building Health is Personal: Spotlight on Lendlease Americas’ Sara Neff
Sara Neff, Head of Sustainability for Lendlease Americas, was recognized as part of this year’s Best in Building Health awards for committing to leading the industry in understanding and quantifying the value of health when it comes to ESG. She shares how a personal health scare sparked a professional passion and what it means to be Best in Building Health in real estate. Read a preview of her story and insights taken from Fitwel’s inaugural digital publication series, Building Health.
Top Takeaways from PERE Asia Summit 2023: How Do Your Buildings Stack Up?
This week, our President & CEO, Joanna Frank joined more than 600 of the real estate industry’s leading managers, developers, and investors across the globe — many of them Fitwel Champions, affiliated Partners, and Best in Building Health honorees — in Singapore for PERE’s 16th Annual Asia Summit.
Fitwel Launches Relational Data Tool that Ranks Portfolio Performance Amongst Peers
NEW YORK, NY; February 21, 2023 - Fitwel announced today a groundbreaking data insights tool that allows real estate companies to rank their properties’ and entities’ healthy building performance against their peers. A first for the industry, the Relational Data tool adds value to Fitwel Certification by providing users entity-level ranking against like-companies.
Adai, Operator of Fitwel, Announces Strategic Capital Raise from QuadReal Property Group
NEW YORK, NY; February 15, 2023 — Active Design Advisors Inc. (Adai), an affiliate of the Center for Active Design (CfAD), the sole operator of Fitwel, today announced a strategic capital investment from QuadReal Property Group (QuadReal), a global real estate investment, operating and development company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Fitwel Publishes Guide to Measuring 'S' — Revealing Link Between Healthy Building Strategies and Increased ESG Scores & Value
NEW YORK, NY; February 7, 2023 — Fitwel announced today new insights to support the correlation between implementing health-promoting operational and design strategies and value in real estate, advancing its efforts to quantify ESG from a people-perspective. The announcement comes on the heels of Fitwel’s publication of the Guide to Measuring “S”, a resource that outlines 5 key areas and metrics for quantifying S in ESG reporting for the real estate industry.
Top 3 Takeaways from IMN’s Pre-Conference Course: ESG 101
Ahead of IMN's ESG & Decarbonizing Real Estate Forum, IMN invited Fitwel to participate in a virtual pre-conference course called “ESG 101: What is Environmental, Social and Governance?” Watch the recording here. We’ve also rounded up some of the key takeaways and insights from the panel of experts.
The Future of Buildings Already Exists: Fitwel to Join PERE Asia Summit 2023
Joanna Frank of the Center for Active Design, operator of Fitwel, will speak in a featured keynote at the PERE Network's Asia Summit in February. The event will feature topics including diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as climate resilience and societal health.
Future Proofing Buildings through People-Centric Proptech: Fitwel to Join IMN’s ESG & Decarbonizing Real Estate Forum
Join us at IMN’s Winter Forum on February 7-8 in Nashville, TN. The Center for Active Design and Fitwel teams are excited to reunite with our global community of Investors, Champions, Partners, Providers, Ambassadors, and industry counterparts. Don’t forget to check out the multiple panels we will be participating in.
Sustainability and Climate Change from a People Perspective
Reflections and Takeaways from COP27. We all understand climate change as it relates to physical properties, but we sometimes overlook the impact of climate risk on the people in the buildings. When we think about climate change, we naturally think of rising temperatures and harmful carbon emissions impacting the environment…
5 Takeaways from Greenbuild 2022
Last week, we joined industry leaders for the 20th Anniversary of Greenbuild. While topics spanned climate change, sustainability, equity, and resilience, health and well-being in the built environment took center stage. Here are the top 5 takeaways for a healthier 2023.
Location, Location, Location
ESG is taking on new meaning in the post-COVID world. Environmental impacts (the "E"), like energy use and carbon emissions, are relatively easy to quantify. Yet it took about ten years for the industry to clearly define how to measure these as standards for ESG reporting. Real estate’s future, however, rests on the measurement and impact of Social (the “S”) frameworks.
Health is as Core as Sustainability: Q&A with Hudson Pacific
On the heels of Hudson Pacific's top 2022 GRESB ranking for sustainability leadership, Center for Active Design’s Director of Applied Research Sara Karerat sat down with Natalie Teear, Hudson Pacific's SVP of Innovation, Sustainability, & Social Impact to discuss the future of building and operating healthier buildings.
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