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.

Fitwel’s CEO, Joanna Frank, will participate in MIPIM 2024 in Cannes, France, the premier real estate event gathering the most influential players from all sectors of the international property industry. Join Joanna as she dives into the pivotal role of ‘S’ data in ESG, shedding light on how Fitwel is pioneering the definition of ‘Social’ within the real estate landscape and the transformative value in integrating social considerations into ESG strategies.

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.

On February 21, 2023, Joanna Frank, CEO of the Center for Active Design, the sole operator of Fitwel, will give the keynote speech at PERE's 16th Annual Asia Summit. Read more about the conference and about the rising demand for Fitwel-certified healthy buildings across Asia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thanks to Mariana G. Figueiro, PhD, Director, Light and Health Research Center at Mount Sinai, Moira Kelley, Head of Social Impact, Harrison Street, and Ashley Schulze, Director of Quality, The Springs Living for joining us for our Greenbuild panel discussion on "Prioritizing Health and Wellbeing in Senior Housing".

"We can’t build our way out of the issues that we have today and nor should we," said Joanna Frank, CEO of nonprofit Center for Active Design, which uses design to foster healthy and engaged communities. "While many people might want to focus on new buildings, existing buildings are the biggest opportunity."

Join us at Greenbuild 2022. The Center for Active Design and Fitwel teams are excited to reconnect with the green building industry at the Greenbuild International Conference + Expo the first week in November. This year, we have a booth sponsorship and multiple panels we will be participating in.

As investors have grown increasingly focused on impact investing, the real estate community has steadily expanded its efforts to demonstrate a commitment to creating portfolios that positively impact our society. The Covid-19 pandemic has opened dialogue about the need to focus on health.