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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.

FITWEL CHAMPION COMPANY
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.

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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.

  • 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

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Research Insights: Fitwel Strategies Can Support Your Sleep Resolutions

We know that sleep has a significant impact on our mental health, which is why Fitwel includes many strategies that can help building occupants get better sleep, such as increasing access to daylight, locating workstations near windows, providing room darkening shades, limiting light pollution, and minimizing interior and exterior-sourced noises.

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Healthy Building Profile: Weir’s Plaza, Four Rivers Capital - Dallas, TX

Weir’s Plaza, a mixed-use tower with office space, four chef-driven restaurants, and the Weir's Furniture Flagship store in Dallas, was recently certified under Fitwel’s Multi-Tenant Base Building v2.1, achieving a 2-Star Rating. Located in the urban Knox Retail District, the project's goal was to create a people-centric mixed-use development that preserved the surrounding area's rich history.

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Healthy Building Profile: 300 West Sixth - Austin, TX

Fitwel Partner, RE Tech Advisors (formerly LORD Green Real Estate Strategies) chose Fitwel certification for 300 West Sixth to assist its client and Fitwel Champion, Lionstone Investments, in its ongoing commitment to the health and wellness of building staff and tenants.

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Healthy Building Profile: iCity - Zhuhai, China

For the iCity team, achieving Fitwel Certification is the first milestone in striving to support employee health. Continuing to optimize the workplace environment can make employees feel happier and achieve a sense of belonging. The facility has created long-term shared value with stakeholders and achieved influence in the social, economic, and environmental fields by continuing to deepen sustainable development.

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Healthy Building Profile: Plaza Tower One - Denver, CO

Granite Properties became a Fitwel Champion this fall certifying five office buildings, including Plaza Tower One, a Class-A, LEED Gold-certified office building in Denver, Colorado. The team chose Fitwel because they felt it was important to communicate and demonstrate their commitment to providing productive and wellness-focused work environments for the health and well-being of their customers and employees.

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Healthy Building Profile: The Spiral - New York City, NY

Tishman Speyer, a founding member of Fitwel's Leadership Advisory Board and Champion partnered up with Fitwel Partner Exubrancy to achieve a 2-star rating for The Spiral, a multi-tenant base building that is “sustainable by design, built with humans in mind.

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Ambassadors Leading the Movement: Rachel Schiftan

Meet Rachel Schiftan — Managing Director for Energy & Sustainability Services at Cushman & Wakefield, Fitwel Champion and previous Best in Building Health Winner. Rachel was recognized at the 2022 Best in Building Health Awards event as the Fitwel Ambassador with the most certified projects of all time.

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Sustainability and Climate Change from a People Perspective

Reflections and Takeaways from COP27. We all understand climate change as it relates to physical properties, but we sometimes overlook the impact of climate risk on the people in the buildings. When we think about climate change, we naturally think of rising temperatures and harmful carbon emissions impacting the environment…

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Healthy Building Profile: China Basin - San Francisco, CA

China Basin is a 100-year-old South Pacific Railroad banana depot, that evolved into a 1,032,800 SF technology and life sciences campus. Fitwel Partner and Technical Advisory Board member, LORD Green Strategies, along with owner, JP Morgan Asset Management, Inc. chose Fitwel because of its focus on people over materials, suitability for unique property types, and extensively research-supported strategies.

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Healthy Building Profile: Llewellyn Apartments - Los Angeles, CA

Fitwel Provider, Brightworks, along with real estate development and investment firm, High Street Residential, a subsidiary of Trammel Crow Company, chose Fitwel to help plan and implement strategies to prioritize the health and well-being of staff and residents at Llewellyn Apartments.

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Ambassadors Leading the Movement: Chia Ming Huang

Meet Chia Ming Huang — Founder of Fitwel Champion, Green Matrix Consulting Company. Chia became a Fitwel Ambassador in 2019 and introduced Fitwel to the Taiwan market. Fitwel’s strategies and standards align with Green Matrix’s mission to “fight for the next generation” and strive to transform the construction market toward health and wellbeing.

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