As part of our ongoing series on real estate industry leaders defining excellence in Building Health, we’re spotlighting Frasers Property UK (FPUK) for its global 2024 Best in Building Health achievements. Its Winnersh Triangle business park, based in Reading, won the Highest Scoring Commercial Industrial Site v2.1 (Built) Project and the Highest Scoring Built Project this year!

Fitwel Champion UL Solutions has been named Best in Building Health for the third year in a row, this time for having the most Consultant certifications and completing the highest-scoring Built Community Project in 2023. Learn about their world-renowned expertise in guiding clients through Fitwel Certification, and how they have set award-winning records worldwide.

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.

Our 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? In our second issue of Building Health, we delve deeper into these topics, spotlighting the value of investing in Social to meet the demands of today and tomorrow.

Climate and health are inextricably linked. In a monumental step forward, this message was echoed in many of the publications and conversations surrounding COP28. Building on this consensus, our team compiled five key takeaways from this landmark conference, highlighting how built environment interventions can combat climate change while also prioritizing health for all.

Palisades, a four-building project owned by Atlanta Property Group in Atlanta's Central Perimeter submarket, takes pride in being one of the most employee-centric office properties in the Southeast of the United States. Together with the support of Sustainable Investment Group, these healthy buildings earned Best in Building Health recognition.

This year, 73 East, designed by M&R Development, managed by RMK Management Corp., and owned in partnership with UBS Realty Investment, received the Best in Building Health Highest Scoring Multifamily Residential award. This 322 unit luxury apartment complex in the heart of Chicago is recognized for its health-promoting Fitwel Standard strategies that make this apartment building an ideal place to call home.

In this month’s Center for Active Design Insights, we took a look back at the three research themes and trends we’ve noticed throughout the year, and what we’ve learned as we turn toward 2024.

Learn about The Stock Exchange of Thailand, the pioneering Fitwel Certified project that became the first to achieve the highest 3-Star Rating in Asia in 2020. This year, they’ve earned Best in Building Health recognition for the Highest Scoring Viral Response Module.