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Here, you'll find what you need to know from the team including insights from the Center for Active Design experts, award-winning projects, industry profiles, and more.

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Tishman Speyer
The Spiral, Manhattan, New York

Featured Posts

  • Fitwel v3 | Empowering Teams to Achieve Certification Efficiently | Image Source: Jadon B / peopleimages.com

    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.

  • Oracle Headquarters, Redwood Shores, CA | Image Courtesy of Oracle

    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.

  • 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.

Recent Posts

SXSW 2022 | Public Health - Tech is Coming For You

Society's shift to prioritizing health in the built environment (Healthy Buildings), as a result of the pandemic, is one of the most critical movements to come out of the last decade. At SXSW 2022, R-Zero's CEO and Co-Founder, Grant Morgan, took the featured stage with some of today's most forward-thinking voices -- for a pivotal conversation exploring the intersection of tech, climate, health, and the built environment.

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"A Better Box: Optimizing Industrial Spaces for Employee Health and Wellbeing" Virtual Panel

While the need to prioritize employee wellbeing in the industrial sector has always been there, the Covid-19 pandemic quickly accelerated demand. Highlighting a series of evidence-based guidelines, the report offers a robust plan for retaining top talent, reducing injury and absenteeism, lowering stress levels, mitigating the risk of contagious disease transmission, decreasing risk of chronic illness, increasing overall job satisfaction, and ultimately improving individual and organizational productivity.

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New Report Highlights the Importance of Optimizing Industrial Workspaces

The Center for Active Design (CfAD) and QuadReal are proud to announce the publication of A Better Box: Optimizing Industrial Spaces for Employee Health and Wellness which illustrates what strategies work best for the industrial sector when it comes to promoting the health and wellness of occupants.

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A note from Joanna Frank, President and CEO, Center for Active Design

In two weeks, we will mark the beginning of the third year of the pandemic. If 2020 was the year we naively opined about getting back to normal, then 2021 has been the year we’ve only just begun emotionally and physically reckoning with our changing world. And it is my sincere hope that in 2022, we meet the moment not only with renewed optimism, but with a detailed plan for pursuing the possibilities that come with more human-centric design.

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A New Investor Consensus: The Rising Demand for Healthy Buildings Webinar

Co-authored by the Center for Active Design, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and BentallGreenOak, the study quantifies for the first time the extent to which the industry is focusing on health and wellness in ESG investment strategies. The authors will share insights from an international sampling of real estate investors representing USD $5.75 trillion total AUM.

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Examining Investor Viewpoints on Health and Wellness

The Center for Active Design (CfAD), BentallGreenOak (BGO) and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) are proud to announce the publication of A New Investor Consensus: The Rising Demand for Healthy Buildings —the largest health and wellness study of global real estate investors ever conducted.

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Fitwel Best in Building Health 2021

At this year's virtual celebration we highlighted our 2021 winners and reflected on the extraordinary agility of the real estate industry during an unprecedented year. Center for Active Design leadership and guest speakers reported on exciting data and trends that will shape the healthy building movement, now and in years to come.

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Real Estate Industry Insights into Fitwel's Viral Response Module

Real estate industry insights into Fitwel’s Viral Response Module with Hudson Pacific Properties, Nuveen Real Estate, The Tower Companies, and Triovest Realty Advisors.

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