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Tishman Speyer
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Featured Posts

Streamlining Success: Fitwel Platform Upgrades for a Faster Certification Journey

Discover the latest upgrades to the Fitwel Platform designed to simplify your certification journey. From quicker project registration to integrated documentation tracking and new strategies addressing climate resilience, explore how these enhancements make achieving Fitwel certification faster, easier, and more efficient.

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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® Unveils v3: Pioneering the Future of Healthy Building Certification

Fitwel, the leading global healthy building certification and data insights platform, has released Version 3 (“v3”) of its evidence-based standard. This update translates the latest public health research to optimize real estate assets for health and quality of life, future-proof them for climate adaptation, and maximize their value.

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Healthy Spaces with Trane Technologies: Clearing the Air

Hear from three different clean air innovators — including Center for Active Design Managing Director Sara Karerat — who are disrupting the status quo, building coalitions across industries, letting data drive strategy, and making our world healthier on this Trane Technologies podcast “Healthy Spaces: Clearing the Air”.

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Shining Light on Healthy Buildings with Sara Karerat — Radio BE-Ex

Radio BE-Ex presents a 2022 interview with Sara Karerat, Managing Director at Center for Active Design (CfAD), covering the connection between public health and the built environment, and the expanding body of research that underpins CfAD’s Fitwel healthy building certification system.

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Taking Care In Business: Nadine Rachid of Center for Active Design

The “Taking Care in Business” podcast dives into organizations, nonprofits, and individuals using business as a force for good. Host Vicki Bohlsen talks with Nadine Rachid about a new chapter in the Center for Active Design’s work.

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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.

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Healthy Building Design with Joanna Frank — CRE PN Radio

J. Darrin Gross of Commercial Real Estate Pro Network (CRE PN) hosts Joanna Frank, President and CEO of the Center for Active Design (CfAD), for a conversation on healthy building design and the development of real estate certification system Fitwel.

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Real Perspectives Podcast with Joanna Frank — The Registry

Vladimir Bosanac, host of the Real Perspectives Podcast and Co-Founder, Publisher and CEO of The Registry, recently sat down with Joanna Frank, President and CEO of the Center for Active Design, to discuss the work of the organization, Fitwel, and Joanna’s personal journey in the real estate industry.

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Ellevate Podcast: How Can a Building Be Healthy?

Maricella Herrera of Ellevate sits down with Joanna Frank, President and CEO of the Center for Active Design and President and CEO of Active Design Advisors, to discuss how buildings can affect your physical and mental health, how climate change is affecting real estate, and working real estate during a financial crisis.

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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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Featured Posts

Streamlining Success: Fitwel Platform Upgrades for a Faster Certification Journey

Putting People at the Center to Drive Value for Real Estate | Defining ‘S’ in Six Targeted Outcomes

Fitwel® Unveils v3: Pioneering the Future of Healthy Building Certification

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