Explore a new academic study that compares Fitwel's healthy building standards to global peers, focusing on Fitwel's holistic approach, evidence-based design, and unique strategies addressing public health needs. Discover how Fitwel aligns with research on social determinants of health and climate resilience, highlighting future directions for health-focused buildings and market differentiation in sustainable design.

This month’s insights from the Center for Active Design explores the new strategies introduced in Fitwel v3, reflecting the latest research in the built environment. Discover how these evidence-based strategies promote healthier spaces and deliver value to communities and the economy in our latest blog.

This month’s insights from the Center for Active Design experts focuses on the implications of the new proposed congestion pricing policy in New York City, which is designed to reduce traffic, enhance air quality, and promote health and equity. Learn how this initiative could positively transform urban life in our latest blog.

Here are actionable, evidence-based ways to optimize IAQ maintenance for both commercial building operators and home residents during the upcoming wildfire season to stay healthy and safe.

Discover how new research will be integrated into the updated Fitwel v3 Standard.

In our recent webinar, "Unlocking Value: Fitwel Social Performance in Focus," co-hosted with our industry partner, EVORA Global, Joanna Frank and Philippa Gill explored how prioritizing people’s health is transforming the ESG landscape and adding value in real estate.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you weren't able to tune in to Social Synergy: Shaping up the ‘S’ in ESG webinar with Fitwel’s industry partner, EVORA Global, we've compiled the key takeaways. Hear directly from the experts who are laying the groundwork for understanding the critical – and valuable – role that health-promoting strategies play in real estate: Grace Dickinson, MPH, MSUP, Associate Director, The Center for Active Design, and Sarah Coughlan, Director and Head of Social Wellbeing at EVORA Global.