This year’s Best in Building Health winner for achieving the Highest Scoring Senior Housing Design award is The Pryde, an affordable housing development for LGBTQ seniors. But in reality, The Pryde is much more than a development, it’s a “beacon of belonging.”

As part of this year’s Best in Building Health awards, we’re pleased to announce our second annual Top 20 Ambassadors List. This initiative, launched in 2023, highlights industry-leading professionals demonstrating exemplary engagement, leadership, and achievements as Fitwel Ambassadors.

In the spirit of Earth Day, this April we are turning our attention to the way the natural environment plays a key role in ensuring human health and wellbeing. Biodiversity, encompassing a vast variety of living organisms, is fundamental to our daily lives.

RXR shows how S-driven initiatives can transform, from proactive tenant engagement to unwavering operational excellence. Please join us as we discuss RXR's success and how their holistic approach to sustainability and health is changing the real estate industry and going beyond ‘doing good’ to defining excellence in Building Health for the industry.

As part of our ongoing series on real estate industry leaders defining excellence in Building Health, we’re spotlighting Frasers Property UK (FPUK) for its global 2024 Best in Building Health achievements. Its Winnersh Triangle business park, based in Reading, won the Highest Scoring Commercial Industrial Site v2.1 (Built) Project and the Highest Scoring Built Project this year!

Fitwel Champion UL Solutions has been named Best in Building Health for the third year in a row, this time for having the most Consultant certifications and completing the highest-scoring Built Community Project in 2023. Learn about their world-renowned expertise in guiding clients through Fitwel Certification, and how they have set award-winning records worldwide.

We are delighted to welcome Moda Group to the expanding cohort of Fitwel Champions in the United Kingdom. The Build-to-Rent (BTR) investor, developer, and operator of large-scale rental neighborhoods in the UK is dedicated to creating a next generation healthy and sustainable future.

As investors continue to emphasize the importance of health, leading organizations including QuadReal are benchmarking their portfolios using the Fitwel Standard to transform data and ESG metrics into tangible findings. The process followed by QuadReal and the Center for Active Design in Health Drives Value for Real Estate illustrates the power of using Fitwel to benchmark a portfolio’s optimization for health and wellness strategies, providing a clear gap analysis and a recipe for future investments. We include the compelling findings in our second issue of Building Health: Expanding the Evidence.

Conversations at MIPIM 2024 highlighted today’s areas of opportunity to create value. Joanna Frank joined more than 20,000 real estate professionals — many of them Fitwel Champions, affiliated partners, and Best in Building Health Award winners — in Cannes, to discuss changing priorities and challenges, and the path forward. Read on for the key takeaways.

In the spirit of awards season, including the recently announced 2024 Best in Building Health Awards, this March we are turning our attention to the historical achievements in environmental design, policy, and engineering for health.

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.

Fitwel®, the global healthy building certification and data insights platform, launched phase two of its groundbreaking new solution that, for the first time, quantifies Social performance by overlaying health research and financial data to identify strategies that have the greatest impact on stakeholders and asset value. Phase one was successfully piloted last year in collaboration with sustainability advisor, EVORA Global.