Fitwel Champion Companies
Companies Leading the Movement
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About Fitwel Champion Companies
Fitwel Champion Companies are companies that own, occupy, or manage commercial and residential properties and have committed to using Fitwel at a portfolio scale. Fitwel streamlines the process for efficient application throughout a portfolio, in order to integrate health-promoting design and operations strategies across multiple projects and a range of typologies.
Meet Our Newest Champion Companies
BGIS is a technology-enabled, technically led global integrated facilities management provider headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada. They focus on delivering disruptive business solutions for clients through a culture of caring, innovation, and high performance. With a rich engineering background and a commitment to sustainability and service excellence, BGIS ensures that their client's real estate assets are operating optimally to support the people who use them. With an entrepreneurial spirit, the team works in partnership with clients to bring forth success through innovative ideas and solutions, delivering real results that drive their objectives and businesses forward.
Fitwel aligns seamlessly with BGIS's dedication to fostering healthy work environments. It provides support in propelling their sustainability objectives forward, minimizing environmental footprints, and bolstering the resilience and sustainability of their built surroundings.
BGIS
Moda Group offers highly serviced, highly amenitised rental living homes in prime city centre neighbourhoods, focused on optimising resident lifestyles in the UK’s most exciting places to live. Working with a range of institutional investors, Moda is currently operational in seven cities across the UK.
Moda Group
RXR is an innovative real estate investment manager, operator, developer, and place-maker committed to applying a customer and community-centered approach to acquiring, operating, and building properties and to providing services and products that create enduring value for all stakeholders.
At RXR, “Doing Good and Doing Well” is an operational mindset embedded deep within their corporate DNA that drives and defines their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy.
RXR became early adopters of Fitwel across their entire portfolio in 2019 and became a Fitwel Champion Company in 2023.
RXR
Champion Company Program Membership & Benefits
Companies can become a Fitwel Champion by committing to apply Fitwel at scale. Companies must register 20 assets upon signing and certifying at least 10 or more projects over the 24-month period.
As a Fitwel Champion Company, you will receive valuable benefits including:
A 5% discount on certification fees
Expedited certification review timeline of 12 weeks
Access to a dedicated Fitwel performance manager
Targeted Fitwel trainings for Champion staff
Recognition of commitment through press and media opportunities
Exclusive updates and access to Fitwel materials
A 50% discount on Fitwel Ambassador trainings
Contact us to join other pioneers employing this portfolio-wide approach to health and wellbeing.
Fitwel Champion Companies
Aldar is the leading real estate developer, manager, and investor in Abu Dhabi, with a growing presence across the United Arab Emirates, the Middle East and North Africa, and Europe. The company has two core business segments, Aldar Development and Aldar Investment.
Aldar Development is a master developer of a 69 million sqm strategic landbank, creating integrated and thriving communities across Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Ras Al Khaimah’s most desirable destinations. The delivery of Aldar’s developments is managed by Aldar Projects, which is also a key partner of the Abu Dhabi government in delivering housing and infrastructure projects across the UAE’s capital. Internationally, Aldar Development wholly owns UK real estate developer London Square, as well as a majority stake in leading Egyptian real estate development company, SODIC.
Aldar Investment houses a core asset management business comprising a portfolio of more than AED 37 billion worth of investment-grade and income-generating real estate assets diversified across retail, residential, commercial, logistics, and hospitality segments. It manages four core platforms: Aldar Investment Properties, Aldar Hospitality, Aldar Education, and Aldar Estates.
Aldar Properties
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc, is the first and only real estate investment trust (REIT) to be named “First-in-Class Fitwel Champion,” and is the first company to have received Fitwel certifications. To date, Alexandria has earned five Fitwel 3 Star Ratings, demonstrating promotion of the highest levels of occupant health and wellness at four of its campuses.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
Barings Real Estate is part of Barings, one of the world’s largest diversified real estate investment managers offering a broad spectrum of solutions across private real estate debt and equity. Our expertise spans all major property sectors, while our research-based and locally executed investment approach uncovers relative value and is designed to deliver compelling risk-adjusted returns to our clients. Barings Real Estate is committed to sustainable and responsible investing. We embrace a culture of taking responsibility and making decisions that are right not only for our investors, but also for the communities in which we live and work, the occupants and visitors to our buildings, and all our stakeholders. For many years, Barings has recognized the importance of focusing on property level ESG performance and has been at the forefront of implementing energy, water, waste, and health and wellbeing measures and earning recognition through third-party green building and health and well-being certifications. In 2020, Barings had over 15 million square feet in green building certifications such as LEED, BREEAM, and IREM CSP. Barings is currently in process of pursuing Fitwel Built Certifications for 23 of our buildings or about 6 million square feet. Additionally, Barings has achieved Fitwel Viral Response certification at the entity level and is implementing the module at 15 office properties. In acknowledgment of our continued focus on implementing best practice health and well-being strategies at our buildings, we are extremely proud to achieve the Fitwel Champion status.
Barings Real Estate
Beacon Capital Partners is a tenant-focused private real estate investment firm with a 75-year legacy of successful real estate development, ownership, and management. Beacon invests in high-quality office properties in urban markets with highly-educated workforces. As a Fitwel Champion, with 11 certified projects, Beacon is committed to advancing the sustainability of its office properties and supporting the health and well-being of its building communities. Beacon became a Fitwel Champion as part of its ongoing efforts to advance its sustainability programs in the workplace, and to continue making design, operational, and health-related improvements to its workplaces.
Beacon Capital Partners
BGIS is a technology-enabled, technically led global integrated facilities management provider headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada. They focus on delivering disruptive business solutions for clients through a culture of caring, innovation, and high performance. With a rich engineering background and a commitment to sustainability and service excellence, BGIS ensures that their client's real estate assets are operating optimally to support the people who use them. With an entrepreneurial spirit, the team works in partnership with clients to bring forth success through innovative ideas and solutions, delivering real results that drive their objectives and businesses forward.
Fitwel aligns seamlessly with BGIS's dedication to fostering healthy work environments. It provides support in propelling their sustainability objectives forward, minimizing environmental footprints, and bolstering the resilience and sustainability of their built surroundings.
BGIS
BGO, a Sun Life Investment Management company is one of the largest global real estate investment advisors and one of North America’s foremost providers of real estate services. As a Fitwel Champion, BGO is committed to helping our tenants and residents advance their health and well-being goals.
BGO
BXP is one of the largest publicly-traded developers, owners and managers of Class A office properties in the United States, concentrated in five markets - Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The Company is a fully integrated real estate company, organized as a real estate investment trust (REIT), that develops, manages, operates, acquires and owns a diverse portfolio of primarily Class A office space. The Company’s portfolio totals 52.7 million square feet and 200 properties, including fourteen properties under construction and 20 million square feet of green buildings certified at the highest LEED Gold and LEED Platinum levels. BXP is committed to providing the highest quality space for their customers, the ‘lives inside’ their buildings. The Company is leveraging Fitwel to support healthy building design and operational practices at six properties totaling 6 million gross square feet.
BXP
Brookfield Properties meets their clients’ real estate needs today with prompt, personalized service — all while planning for where their businesses will be tomorrow. Brookfield Properties’ commitment to health and wellness goes beyond day-to-day business, and becoming a Fitwel Champion ensures that their tenants have the healthiest and safest experience possible. Brookfield Properties' priority has always been to create places where you do your best work. Places that inspire creativity, innovation, productivity, and community. They know that the actions they take now become the foundation for a successful future. And with the support of Brookfield Asset Management, one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world, Brookfield Properties have the resources and backing to see their clients through to the finish line — and grow with them every step of the way.
Brookfield Properties
Clarion Partners, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser with FCA-authorized and FINRA member affiliates, has been a leading U.S. real estate investment manager for 38 years. With over $56.4 billion in total assets under management, Clarion Partners provides investors with long-term real estate solutions to support their investment objectives. The Fitwel standard complements Clarion’s goal to create healthy and productive spaces for tenants and provides them a method for earning recognition for their efforts. Clarion has 10 Fitwel certified properties across the U.S. and plans to pursue additional certifications for eligible assets. In 2018, Clarion was recognized by the Center for Active Design and Fitwel as one of two real estate managers with the greatest number of certifications and earned the highest score in the Multifamily Residential category.
Clarion Partners
Cousins Properties (NYSE:CUZ) is a fully integrated, self-administered, and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and acting through its operating partnership, Cousins Properties LP, primarily invests in Class A office buildings located in high-growth Sun Belt markets of Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Phoenix, Tampa, Dallas, and Nashville. Founded in 1958 by Tom Cousins, the Company creates shareholder value through its extensive expertise as a leader in the development, acquisition, leasing, and property management of high-quality real estate assets. They are committed to designing and operating buildings that enrich the health and well-being of customers, employees, and the communities in which they operate. Cousins' strategies focus on providing clean environments that are safe and offer amenities that support and encourage healthy living, and they consider healthy building certifications like Fitwel to be complementary to these strategies.
Cousins Properties
CP Group is a vertically integrated commercial real estate and management firm that has been a leading owner-operator and developer of commercial real estate throughout the Sunbelt since 1986. As the largest office landlord in Florida, the second largest in Atlanta, and one of the top 25 in the United States, we are responsible for fostering collaborative, healthy, productive environments for the 40,000 employees who office at our buildings every day.
As a proud Fitwel Champion, CP Group pledges to benchmark their entire portfolio against the Fitwel standard and certify at least one-third of their 18M SF portfolio. They also plan to train 10% of our workforce in the Fitwel Ambassador course to ensure a culture that supports our ongoing ambitions.
Fitwel aligns with CP Group’s evidence-based approach to environmental and social factors, driving positive and tangible impacts on team and tenant health through achievable design modifications and operational improvements.
By embracing the Fitwel Standard, CP Group will showcase and evolve their well-being initiatives across the portfolio, including:
Occupant health and safety – such as indoor air quality improvements and monitoring, green cleaning products, and management of chemicals on site
On-Site Physical Fitness – providing on-site and outdoor fitness facilities and exercise classes
Access to healthier and convenient food options – like on-site cafés with healthy food options, healthy vending machines, and farmer’s markets
Community outreach – supporting local vendors and non-profits and providing our tenants with up-to-date information on local events and community facilities
Social equity – through our community fundraising and support programs and facilities such as mothers’ rooms and enhanced accessibility options
Well-being – for our tenants and employees through online or physical programming, green space, quiet rooms, outdoor seating areas, enhanced access to natural light, and optimal ventilation
Being a Fitwel Champion demonstrates CP Group’s commitment to tenants and teams by providing them with the amenities, programs, and wellness infrastructure they deserve.
CP Group
Crescent Communities is a market-leading real estate investor, developer, and operator of mixed-use communities. Since 1963, their development portfolio has included more than 59 multifamily communities, 21 million square feet of commercial space, and 60 single family master-planned communities.
Stewardship is fundamental to Crescent Communities’ mission to Build Community and Better People’s Lives. Honoring their commitment to stewardship, Crescent Communities embraces four interconnected pillars: Environment, Community, Wellness, and Resiliency.
Crescent Communities has long recognized the importance of health and wellness and how it relates to productivity and overall happiness. Aligning with the goals of Fitwel, they invest to create environments that support physical and emotional well-being. By designing communities where healthy choices are easy to make, the places they create then become the catalyst for a healthier and happier lifestyle, not only for residents and tenants, but for the greater community.
Crescent Communities
Crown has been a Fitwel Champion since 2020 when they joined a select group of industry-leading organizations committed to optimizing buildings to enhance occupant health and wellbeing. The Fitwel Standard provides a blueprint for making positive changes that are scientifically proven to enhance well-being and occupier health. As a Fitwel Champion, Crown is committed to taking an integrated approach to how the design and operations of a building can improve occupant health and productivity. It also means that Crown will continue to consider health and wellness in the design, redevelopment, and operations of buildings.
Crown Property Management
Elme Communities (formerly known as Washington Real Estate Investment Trust or WashREIT) is committed to elevating what homes can be for middle-income renters by providing a higher level of quality, service, and experience. The company is a multifamily real estate investment trust that owns and operates approximately 10,000 apartment homes in the Mid-Atlantic and Sunbelt, as well as approximately 300,000 square feet of commercial space. Focused on providing quality, affordable homes to a deep, solid, and underserved base of mid-market demand, Elme Communities is building long-term value for shareholders.
Elme is focused on the sustainability of our buildings, and the health and wellness of our residents and tenants. The team strives to operate our properties in ways that positively impact the communities where we reside. Elme’s goals, which align with the Fitwel strategy, are to deliver evidence-based health impacts and accelerate the impact across our portfolio through our commitment as a Fitwel Champion.
Elme Communities
Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT) is a leading REIT who owns, manages, and operates office and retail properties in Manhattan and the greater NY metro area. ESRT is committed to integrated portfolio-wide strategies for environmental, social and governance initiatives, which plays an important role in our capital allocation, innovation process and the way in which they interact with their stakeholders. Becoming a Fitwel Champion is supporting their commitment to support health for their employees and tenants. ESRT is currently undergoing Fitwel Certification for six of their NYC properties, including the world-renown Empire State Building and One Grand Central Place.
"Empire State Realty Trust is thrilled to be announced as a Fitwel Champion in recognition of our commitment to Fitwel certify 10.1 million rentable square feet, impacting the wellbeing of our occupants. Our Fitwel certifications include the iconic Empire State Building, demonstrating to the world that all buildings regardless of when they were built can be designed and operated to promote all aspects of health."
—Dana Robbins Schneider, SVP, Director of Energy and Sustainability
Empire State Realty Trust
Fidelity’s mission is to inspire better financial futures and outcomes for the customers and businesses they serve. Privately held for 75 years, Fidelity employs nearly 60,000 associates worldwide who are focused on the long-term success of their customers.
The firm maintains a strong commitment to its employee experience and building workspaces around those needs. As a Fitwel Champion, it further strengthens their existing commitment to healthy workplaces for all to enjoy and thrive — helping all who visit their spaces to thrive.
With 67% of the Fidelity portfolio having received the Fitwel Virus Response module addressing COVID-related safety and 55% of its portfolio with full Fitwel certification, Fidelity aims to achieve 100% certification in both (not including investor center locations) in 2022.
Fidelity Investments
Granite Properties is a privately held commercial real estate investment, development, and management company founded in 1991. Granite is committed to providing high-quality, productive, and wellness-focused work environments for the health and wellbeing of our customers and employees. Wellness features are integrated into the office building communities through outdoor workspaces, clean indoor air technology, an abundance of natural light, biophilic design, access to trails, fitness centers, and healthy food options. Fitwel is a part of Granite Properties’ ESG programming, which has always been a guiding part of the company’s values. The firm is committed to using Fitwel at a portfolio scale and earning certifications at 10 office buildings in 24 months. In 2021, 100 Bayview in Newport Beach became the first Granite Fitwel-certified office building (and the first multi-tenant Fitwel-certified building in Newport Beach). Granite’s Fitwel Ambassadors represent internal leaders and are active participants in Fitwel’s healthy-building movement. Being a Fitwel Champion communicates the Granite commitment to building healthy and sustainable work environments.
Granite Properties
The Green Cities Company has driven innovation in real estate investment management for over a decade through the confluence of environmental, social and investment value. With this forward-thinking strategy and fully integrated in-house expertise, the firm acquires, manages, and develops multi-family assets. Deep experience in select U.S. markets, combined with meaningful attention to ESG considerations, positions The Green Cities Company for enhanced tenant retention and superior operations. This differentiated approach, along with disciplined risk management, encompasses the environmental footprint of an asset, the diversity and inclusivity of its community and the wellbeing and fulfillment of its occupants and neighbors. Each member of the team is dedicated to a resilient investment portfolio that yields results to the firm’s investors, employees, tenants, and communities. For more information, please visit www.greencities.com.
The Green Cities Company
Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate company offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing, logistics, and life sciences sectors. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates more than $290 billion of real estate in 247 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, manages more than 857,400 units/beds globally, and has a robust institutional investment management platform comprised of more than $76 billion of assets under management, including over $34 billion of development assets. As a Fitwel Champion, Greystar is committed to exploring health and well-being strategies to increase resident satisfaction.
Greystar
Harrison Street is one of the leading investment management firms exclusively focused on alternative real assets. Since inception in 2005, the firm has created a series of differentiated investment solutions focused on demographic-driven, needs-based assets. The firm has invested across senior housing, student housing, healthcare delivery, life sciences, and storage real estate as well as social and utility infrastructure.
Harrison Street is committed to positively impacting the health and wellness of its buildings' communities - especially given the residential nature of their senior and student housing assets. By becoming a Fitwel Champion, Harrison Street understands how human health and well-being can be enhanced through the built environment in an equitable way that services all of a building’s occupants.
Harrison Street
Hudson Pacific Properties, a real estate investment trust that acquires, redevelops and develops creative office and studio properties in West Coast tech and media epicenters, strives to foster the growth of sustainable, equitable and healthy cities. As a Fitwel Champion, Hudson Pacific will strengthen its approach to delivering healthy building design and enhancing operational practices that will drive value for tenants, employees, investors, and partners. Hudson Pacific achieved its first Fitwel Certification at the iconic San Francisco Ferry Building and is committed to achieving additional Fitwel certifications for buildings across its core markets. In addition to pursuing further certifications, Hudson Pacific will train in-house Fitwel Ambassadors to support the integration of Fitwel’s strategies throughout its portfolio.
Hudson Pacific Properties
JBG SMITH, a Maryland REIT, owns and operates a portfolio of high-growth commercial and multifamily assets amenitized with ancillary retail. JBG SMITH's portfolio reflects its longstanding strategy of owning and operating assets within Metro-served submarkets in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that have high barriers to entry and vibrant urban amenities. JBG SMITH is pursuing Fitwel certifications across its portfolio with the goal of providing green, healthy, and resilient spaces and communities for occupants to work, live, and play. JBG SMITH achieved its first Fitwel Multi-Tenant Whole Building certification at 4747 Bethesda Avenue, and is committed to achieving Fitwel certifications for its assets across the Washington, D.C. metropolitan
JBG SMITH
Kilroy Realty Corporation, a real estate investment trust and North American leader in sustainability has 8 Fitwel certified properties in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, totaling approximately 2.5 million square feet of office space and representing 17% of its portfolio. Kilroy intends to both continue pursuing Fitwel certifications for its stabilized buildings that qualify for the certification and to using the Fitwel system as a guide to making health-related improvements in its existing portfolio.
Kilroy Realty Corporation
Lendlease is a globally integrated real estate group with operations in Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States. The firm’s purpose is to create places where communities thrive. Lendlease’s core capabilities are reflected in their operating segments of Investments, Development and Construction. The combination of these three segments provides Lendlease with a sustainable competitive advantage in delivering innovative integrated solutions for customers.
Lendlease has been working with Fitwel since 2017 when the company certified its Chicago NextPlace Office and later leveraged its Horizon Uptown project as part of the pilot to develop Fitwel’s Community Scorecard. As a Fitwel Champion, Lendlease makes strides to advance the healthy building movement and prioritize resident health and wellness by certifying its entire Investment Management portfolio and benchmark and improve its military housing portfolio.
Lendlease
Lionstone Investments is committed to ensuring the firm's commitment to sustainability, health, and resilience. Their expectation is to perform within an asset’s highest capabilities, and make improvements to realize the highest level of safety and well-being for the tenants, management, staff, and guests that occupy those assets. Adhering to Environmental, Social, Governance and Resilience policies and placing substantial emphasis on health, well-being, and safety is a priority for their investors, and their firm.
Lionstone Investments
Manulife Investment Management’s real estate platform provides investment solutions globally as part of its comprehensive private markets’ capabilities. As of March 31, 2023, our sustainably operated platform offers core, core-plus, and value-add strategies spanning over 73 million square feet of office, industrial, retail, and multifamily assets strategically located in Canada, the U.S., and Asia Pacific. The real estate investment team leverages its global platform and asset management expertise to engage with and understand local markets, and to drive results for its investment clients.
Manulife Investment Management
MetLife Investment Management’s (MIM) Real Estate Group, with $111.2 billion in commercial real estate debt and equity assets under management and an investing heritage of over 150 years, understands the impact buildings have on people, communities and the environment. MIM recognizes uncertainties such as climate change, resource scarcity and regulatory compliance may impact financial outcomes and works to mitigate these risks. MIM Real Estate continues to advance industry-leading sustainable investment best practices through a dedicated effort to reaching decarbonization targets through deployment of its MetZero™ initiative using a Carbon Cascade™ approach, which prioritizes energy efficiency and on-site and off-site renewables to lower net emissions. MIM’s investment teams believe in active engagement on sustainability issues, and its real estate investment professionals regularly discuss and advocate for sustainable business practices with property stakeholders. MIM seeks to combine a successful and diverse real estate portfolio with ambitious sustainability goals, including a commitment to originating $20 billion in new green investments by 2030. MIM currently has 28 MIM Real Estate Equity owned assets with Fitwel Certifications current or underway and has recently reestablished their standing as a Fitwel Champion to convey its full understanding of their influence and overall commitment to health and wellness in the built environment.
MetLife Investment Management (MIM)
Moda Group offers highly serviced, highly amenitised rental living homes in prime city centre neighbourhoods, focused on optimising resident lifestyles in the UK’s most exciting places to live. Working with a range of institutional investors, Moda is currently operational in seven cities across the UK.
Moda Group
Nuveen Real Estate, a TIAA company, is one of the largest investment managers in the world with $144 billion of assets under management as of 30 Sep 2021. Nuveen Real Estate is committed to “investing in tomorrow’s world for the enduring benefit of clients and society.” To bring that vision to life, Nuveen Real Estate has developed a smart, sustainable building blueprint for the different real estate sectors it invests in. Each blueprint summarizes operational best practices across the following key themes: energy, water, waste, resilience, tenants and community, leasing, data and digitalization, and health and wellness. Nuveen Real Estate became a Fitwel champion in 2020, committing to 8 Fitwel certifications by the end of 2021. “We are excited to report that we surpassed our original goal and having already registered 20 additional buildings and committed to 10 more certifications over the next 2 years which will expand beyond office and target more certifications in multifamily buildings and other sectors,” said Jessica Long, U.S. Head of Sustainability at Nuveen Real Estate. Moreover, Nuveen Real Estate has achieved Fitwel Viral Response accreditation at nearly 30 office buildings. “Nuveen and TIAA understand the importance of investing in spaces that provide safe, productive environments for our occupiers and employees,” said Chad Phillips, Global Head of the Office Sector at Nuveen Real Estate. “Doing so not only supports our building occupants, but also protects and enhances the value of our investments.”
Nuveen Real Estate
PGIM Real Estate believes that doing the right thing for its people, the environment and its communities leads to better results for all its stakeholders. Becoming a Fitwel Champion reinforces their commitment to provide environments that are safe and contribute to the well-being of its employees, tenants and customers. Applying the Fitwel standard allows PGIM Real Estate to enhance and protect the value of its properties. In addition, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, healthy and safe spaces have become increasingly important to its tenants and investors. PGIM Real Estate has Fitwel certified properties in New York, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area. This includes the first Fitwel 3-Star certification under the v2.1 Built Certification Pathway in the United States. As one of the largest real estate managers in the world, PGIM Real Estate is committed to embedding environmental, social and governance best practices throughout its real estate investment and asset management processes. The firm strives to deliver exceptional outcomes for investors and borrowers through a range of real estate equity and debt solutions across the risk-return spectrum. It is a business of PGIM, the trillion global asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU).
PGIM Real Estate
Principal Real Estate Investors has a long history of supporting health and wellness initiatives within their real estate investments. They have significant experience designing, constructing, operating, and overseeing capital and tenant improvements with the health, safety, and welfare of building occupants in mind. These efforts are primarily carried out through their Pillars of Responsible Property Investing (PRPI) initiative, which is a unique, overarching ESG framework comprised of three pillars: market resilience, corporate governance, and property performance. These pillars, in addition to their standard operational policies and health and wellness guidelines, guide their approach to real estate investment and management, and incorporate ESG factors, including health and wellness, into all aspects of the real estate investment and management lifecycle. Principal Real Estate Investors are actively pursuing health and wellness certifications to bring market recognition to their properties for their achievements. Principal chose to solidify their relationship to Fitwel by becoming a Fitwel Champion to demonstrate to their stakeholders that they are committed to leading the movement to increase the health and wellness of the built environment.
Principal Real Estate Investors
QuadReal is a global real estate company with managed assets totaling more than $18 billion, including some of Canada’s most well-known properties. As a Fitwel Champion, QuadReal is committed to using Fitwel to support their efforts to create places that promote wellbeing and productivity for their tenants and residents.
QuadReal
Rockwood Capital understands the crucial connection between healthy spaces and thriving communities. This commitment to well-being guides their investment philosophy and drives them to actively promote healthy lifestyles. This dedication fueled the decision to become a Fitwel Champion. With nearly 20 Fitwel-certified projects totaling 4 million square feet, Rockwood is paving the way for healthier real estate. From incorporating natural light and greenery to encouraging active movement and promoting healthy food choices, Rockwood champions design solutions that empower occupants to make positive choices and thrive. The partnership with Fitwel reflects Rockwood Capital's core belief that healthy spaces are not just a perk, but a fundamental responsibility.
Rockwood Capital
RXR is an innovative real estate investment manager, operator, developer, and place-maker committed to applying a customer and community-centered approach to acquiring, operating, and building properties and to providing services and products that create enduring value for all stakeholders.
At RXR, “Doing Good and Doing Well” is an operational mindset embedded deep within their corporate DNA that drives and defines their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy.
RXR became early adopters of Fitwel across their entire portfolio in 2019 and became a Fitwel Champion Company in 2023.
RXR
Tishman Speyer, a founding member of Fitwel's Leadership Advisory Board is a leading owner, developer, operator and fund manager of first-class real estate around the world will certify its buildings in the United States and introduce Fitwel to new markets in China, Brazil, India, Germany and France. With over 250,000 people working in its buildings, Tishman Speyer is uniquely positioned to apply Fitwel to all its properties around the world.
Tishman Speyer
A leader in Canadian institutional real estate, Triovest creates sustainable places that enhance communities and enrich relationships. Triovest’s platform offers a full spectrum of commercial real estate services for over $11 billion of assets under management and $2 billion in development. As a Fitwel Champion, Triovest will offer leading design and operational strategies to support the health and well-being of the people who occupy and visit its buildings. Triovest looks forward to learning from and working with the Center for Active Design and other Fitwel Champions to inform future program development and make a positive impact on its communities. Visit triovest.com for more information.
Triovest
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency that protects the US from health, safety, and security threats, has applied Fitwel to Building 107, part of its Chamblee campus in Atlanta, and received a 3 Star Fitwel Rating – the top rating available. The CDC will remain Fitwel’s research and evaluation partner moving forward, ensuring that updated versions of the rating system remain true to the scientific evidence available.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Establishing itself as a vanguard in the healthy building movement, AvalonBay Communities, Inc., a leading equity REIT with a long-term track record of developing, redeveloping, acquiring, and managing distinctive residences, is the first residential-only developer to become a Fitwel Champion and commit to implement Fitwel’s multifamily residential scorecard in their portfolio.
AvalonBay Communities
The Bozzuto Group is a leading developer, builder and manager of multifamily and mixed-use apartment communities. Bozzuto creates sanctuary for individuals and believes that the world becomes a better place when they are all at their best delivering extraordinary experiences for those they serve. As such, Bozzuto believes this extends beyond their award-winning service, signature amenity programming and extraordinary apartment homes. Sanctuary is more than four walls and a roof—it is a commitment to well-being of Bozzuto employees and residents alike. As a Fitwel Champion, Bozzuto is moving forward with certification efforts for six properties as well as assisting valued clients in numerous others in progress and beyond.
The Bozzuto Group
Brandywine Realty Trust is one of the country’s largest full-service integrated real estate companies, with a core focus in the Philadelphia, Austin, and Washington, D.C. markets. The company owns and manages an innovative portfolio of urban and suburban class-A and trophy-class commercial and mixed-use buildings with a commitment to excellence in all areas of the development process resulting in extraordinary work environments for tenants and employees. Brandywine shares Fitwel’s mission of employing best practices that optimize the health and well-being of the tenant experience while evolving to meet the everchanging needs of the future of the workplace. Brandywine has certified over 5.4M square feet of office space in its Philadelphia portfolio, including Cira Centre, 2001 Market Street, 2005 Market Street, 1900 Market Street, 1717 Arch Street, 100 North 18th Street, and 130 North 18th Street.
Brandywine Realty Trust
CBRE is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, advising on a wide range of technical disciplines—from creating and communicating sustainability strategies; to contaminated land, flood risk, and environmental impact assessments; to green building and wellness certification. This integrated position with a real estate business provides for unique commercial understanding and focus on finding the best solution. CBRE in the UK has committed to applying the Fitwel certification across a minimum of six UK projects over the coming year, in addition to training in-house Fitwel Ambassadors to support the integration of Fitwel’s strategies across a growing number of projects. CBRE is identifying suitable Fitwel projects and consulting with clients concerning a range of assets across residential, office, and retail properties.
CBRE
Leveraging their diverse portfolio, CBRE China is expanding conversations around sustainability to embrace health as a vital issue for real estate and other industries. “Ultimately, sustainability is about people,” says Stephen Tam, Senior Director, Technical and Sustainability Services Team, CBRE China. “We’re applying Fitwel to build a better future that places health at the center of the workplace, because we are committed to enhancing quality of life for every occupant of every building.”
CBRE China
Cityview is a premier investment management and development firm that is dedicated to redefining urban living in high growth markets across the Western United States. Cityview takes a unique holistic approach to uncovering and tapping into the ideal urban way of life. As a Fitwel Champion, Cityview shares Fitwel’s commitment to health and wellness for our residents. Cityview’s CEO, Sean Burton remarks that, “From the beginning, we’ve incorporated meaningful sustainable and wellness measures we believe will have a positive impact on our residents and the community. We take pride in it. Remaining environmentally and health conscious from start to finish is an integral component of our mission.”
CityView
Clark Construction Group is one of the nation’s most experienced and respected providers of construction services. Ranked as the #2 green builder by ENR since 2014, Clark’s green building portfolio includes $43 billion worth of projects totaling nearly 130 million square feet. As the first general contractor to become a Fitwel Champion, Clark will leverage the Fitwel standard to provide a healthier workplace environment for its employees while also serving as a knowledgeable advisor to its clients based on firsthand experience with the certification system.
Clark Construction
At Columbia Property Trust, we understand that providing for the health and well-being of the people who inhabit our workspaces is critical to tenants’ ability to attract and retain the best talent. Therefore we made the decision to certify our entire portfolio through leading health and safety benchmark programs like Fitwel to demonstrate our commitment to the health, safety, and well-being of our building occupants and to operating as an industry leader in the health and safety space. We expanded our commitment to become a Fitwel Champion because we believe these certifications can contribute materially to long-term value and tenant satisfaction at our buildings.
Columbia Property Trust
As a development management firm working across the PBSA, PRS, and Life Sciences sectors, the health and wellbeing of DLC Europe’s residents have always had a decisive influence on the design and operation of their buildings. At DLC Europe, they are conscious of the fact that the built environment influences almost every aspect of our residents’ lives. Therefore, they believe that promoting the mental, social and physical health of their residents is a responsibility that we bear as a professional working in this environment. Becoming a Fitwel Champion cements DLC Europe’s commitment to health and well-being, and allows them to evaluate, develop, and expand their approach to creating healthy environments for their occupants. To date, DLC Europe has certified 2 projects that have achieved a Fitwel 2 Star Rating, and have committed to certifying an additional 5 projects by June 2021.
DLC Europe
Element Four are award-winning sustainability strategists, working to make places healthier, happier and more environmentally-sustainable. With 25 years’ experience in the construction and property sector, they are passionate about humanising the built environment, helping clients to create exceptional spaces that support healthy habits, promote wellbeing and strengthen communities. Element Four works to deliver meaningful and lasting change for organisations that want to become more sustainable, more socially responsible. Element Four achieved the first two multi-tenant Fitwel certifications outside the USA with client RO Real Estate’s Dakota and One Dorset Street commercial office developments in 2018. Current projects include Woking Borough Council’s Civic Centre; RO Real Estate’s 1 Suffolk Way in Sevenoaks, Victoria House in Watford and Waterside Place in Southampton; and Epic Investments’ 217 Bath Road in Slough.
Element Four
Elevance Health (formally known as Anthem Inc.), one of the largest health benefits companies in the United States, actively promotes healthy, productive workplaces for their employees. Anthem is using Fitwel to enhance building environments by addressing a broad range of health behaviors and risks. Fitwel is supporting Anthem's efforts to understand where to prioritize future investments that will optimize and support employee health within the workplace. Anthem has committed to certifying a minimum of 3 million square feet of office space in 2018.
Elevance Health
Epsten Group is a global leader in sustainable design, engineering, and consulting services. By committing to use Fitwel within their own offices and client projects, Epsten Group has added health and wellbeing to its suite of expert services, including architecture, commissioning, and environmental sustainability best practices. Epsten Group looks forward to joining other industry leaders as a Champion company.
Epsten Group
EYP, a global provider of high-performance building design, research, and consulting services, has committed to using Fitwel’s strategies as a guide for workplace design. EYP’s strong evidence-based design approach and commitment to Fitwel will assist in advancing health-promoting design for workplaces.
EYP, Inc.
Harvard Pilgrim and its family of companies provide health benefit plans, programs and services to more than 3 million customers in New England and beyond. When discussing Harvard Pilgrim’s wellness initiatives, Cynthia Ring, Chief HR Officer from Harvard Pilgrim commented, “The well-being of our employees is central to our talent management strategy. We can’t achieve our business objectives if we don’t have a healthy, engaged workforce.” As a Fitwel Champion, Harvard Pilgrim will use Fitwel as a guide to providing healthy and productive work environments for their employees.
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
As a leading global provider of engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services, HDR's employees are the key to its success. HDR has strengthened its commitment to employee health and wellness by becoming a Fitwel Champion. In February 2018, HDR earned its first 3 Star Fitwel certification for their office in Arlington, Virginia. As a Fitwel Champion, HDR has committed to obtaining Fitwel certifications for a minimum of six of their offices, pursuing Fitwel for its new Boston and Seattle offices and new global headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, with other locations yet to be determined.
HDR
HCM an award-winning architecture firm that practices an integrated approach to design excellence with environmental sustainability, has committed to applying Fitwel to office spaces in Baltimore, MD, Denver, CO, and Alexandria, HCM’s commitment will elevate health as a priority within its offices and build capacity and knowledge among its staff.
Hord Coplan Macht (HCM)
Integral Group is a global engineering firm delivering green sustainable solutions to buildings and communities with a focus on health and wellness for our staff and clients. To that end, Integral consciously provides a nurturing working environment for its team, and has committed to applying Fitwel to four offices in three countries
Integral Group
LaSalle is one of the world’s leading real estate investment managers with over $67 billion in assets under management. LaSalle’s primary objective in all of its activities is to deliver superior investment results for its clients. LaSalle believes that environmental, social and governance best practices enhance the performance of its clients’ investments. In the US, the Fitwel standard aligns well to LaSalle’s multifamily investment strategy focus on the health and well-being of its residents. LaSalle intends to continue pursuing Fitwel certifications for its eligible multifamily assets.
LaSalle Investment Management
In line with its mission to create better living environments for communities and future generations, internationally recognized integrated design firm Lemay is a proud Fitwel Champion. User well-being is at the heart of Lemay’s distinctive approach that merges architecture, interior design, urban planning and design, landscape architecture, sustainable strategies and structural engineering. The firm’s commitment to design and healthy living environments is further exemplified through their commitment to Fitwel certify their own offices and client projects, as they create sustainable value for users and communities around the world.
Lemay
Menkes Developments Ltd is an award-winning, fully integrated real estate company involved in the construction, ownership and management of office, industrial and residential properties. As earlier adopters of Fitwel, Menkes will utilize the standard to implement improvements at its managed office buildings to help promote opportunities for occupants to improve their health and wellbeing.
Menkes Developments Ltd
Headquartered in New York City, Paramount Group, Inc. is a fully-integrated real estate investment trust that owns, operates, manages, acquires and redevelops high-quality, Class A office properties located in select central business district submarkets of New York City and San Francisco. Paramount is focused on maximizing the value of its portfolio by leveraging the sought-after locations of its assets and its proven property management capabilities to attract and retain high-quality tenants.
With nearly 14 million square feet under management, Paramount now operates 10 properties totaling approximately 8.7 million square feet that have received Fitwel Certifications positioning it to achieve the much coveted Fitwel Champion designation. As a Fitwel champion, Paramount will look forward to continuing its leadership in sustainable building design and management, with the goal of building a healthier future for all. While operating as an industry leader for sustainable building performance, Paramount seeks to provide a healthy environment for both tenants and employees. The company utilizes a goal-oriented sustainability strategy, highlighting energy, emissions, water and waste targets to be achieved by 2025. This timeline is consistent with the United Nations’ sustainability goals adopted under the 2030 Agenda, and should drive Paramount’s year-over-year progress.
Paramount Group
Solidifying its commitment to evidence-based, healthier workplace design, global architecture and design firm Perkins+Will was the first company to pursue—with the intent to achieve—Fitwel certification for all of its North American offices. Perkins+Will has committed to certify all of their North American offices over the next two years.
Perkins+Will
Sentinel is a built-environment sustainability consultancy who has supported the Fitwel certification process since its early stages in addition to the development of Fitwel v2.1. As industry researchers and consultants for Health & Wellbeing in offices in the UK & Europe, Sentinel is committed to the cause of creating user-centric, healthy and positive workspaces. As a Fitwel legacy champion company, Sentinel continues to aid designers, occupiers, FM teams, asset managers, corporate real estate teams and other professionals with the resources and expertise to formulate and meet their Health & Wellbeing goals. Being built-environment professionals, they hope to use their expertise to drive transformation in the real-estate market and help deliver buildings with people, their health, & environmental sustainability as a core area of all design and operational strategies. Sentinel consulted on the workplace awarded the first 3 Star Fitwel Certification in the UK and Europe. Sentinel’s ongoing Fitwel projects include offices in London, Budapest & Dublin.
Sentinel RPI
Skanska is one of the world’s leading construction and development companies, and has a longstanding commitment to building a more sustainable future for their customers and communities. Skanska develops high-quality, energy efficient, innovative buildings that are designed to deliver exceptional performance as well as create spaces that enable the people who live and work there to thrive. Skanska is committed to creating buildings that are environmentally sustainable, activate and inspire local communities, and enhance health & wellness for building occupants.Utilizing the Fitwel standard at scale brings a more structured approach to incorporating health & wellness into their development projects. Applying the Fitwel standard early in project design enables Skanska to identify key aspects of building design and operation that positively impact human health & wellness.Skanska’s current projects pursuing Fitwel certification are located in Boston, Houston, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC.
Skanska
Stantec, a leader in the design of sustainable and resilient environments globally, further solidifies their commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of employees and communities through pursuing Fitwel certification for 3 of its own offices (Boston, Denver, and Toronto), to initiate a program which will eventually expand to include more offices as they consolidate, relocate and renovate. Stantec will also advise building and design colleagues and commercial clients about the Fitwel system, including serving on the Fitwel Advisory Council.
Stantec
The Tower Companies, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate developer and recognized sustainability leader, is the first Mid-Atlantic only developer, owner, and operator with a portfolio including both multifamily residential and commercial office properties to commit as a Fitwel Champion. Tower is pursuing Fitwel certifications across their portfolio with a goal to enrich the lives of their occupants, connect them to thriving communities, and create positive social change.
The Tower Companies
Vitacon is a developer and pioneer in technology for housing, smart spaces, and apartments in Brazil, with more than 70 buildings in its portfolio and a community of more than 20,000 customers. Becoming a Fitwel Champion aligns with Vitacon’s mission to incorporate health, sustainability, a collaborative economy, and urban mobility within its projects. Vitacon is the first company to pursue Fitwel in Brazil, and is actively working on two multifamily residential projects in São Paulo, On Melo Alves and On Paulista, with 4 additional projects under development in the next 12 months. Vitacon partners with Ca2, a local multidisciplinary consultancy company specialized in sustainable building design, as their main Fitwel consultant for the process.
Vitacon
Vornado Realty Trust is a fully-integrated equity real estate investment trust, which owns and operates over 30 million square feet of office, retail, and residential space in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco. Vornado has pioneered sustainable best practices in real estate, through the creation of synergies among the operators, tenants, and infrastructure of each building. Vornado earned its first 3 Star Fitwel certification together with its tenant, Bloomberg LP, at 731 Lexington Avenue in 2017. As a Fitwel Champion, Vornado incorporates the Fitwel standard into its strategies on redevelopment and operations. Vornado has benchmarked its entire office portfolio through Fitwel and is actively pursuing Fitwel certification at several assets in 2018.
Vornado Realty Trust
WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services consulting firms, with over 37,000 people in more than 500 offices across 40 countries. WSP has expertise ranging from urban planning to engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transport networks, and is a market leader in supporting workplace wellness for employees, clients, and surrounding communities. As a Fitwel Champion, WSP has committed to attain Fitwel certification for a portion of their offices in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.