Fitwel Blog

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

The Race to Wellness: Health is Core Business for Real Estate in 2025

The 2025 Best in Building Health (BiBH) Awards celebrate the real estate leaders redefining success through health-focused design. This year’s winners exemplify the industry’s shift toward wellness-driven spaces, proving that prioritizing health leads to stronger communities, higher tenant demand, and long-term value. With innovations like FSP - Fitwel’s Scale Certification and the enhanced Fitwel v3 Standard, the future of real estate is healthier, more sustainable, and built for lasting impact.

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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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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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Adai Announces Strategic Capital Raise Led By RET Ventures with Kilroy Realty

NEW YORK, NY; OCTOBER 11, 2022 - Active Design Advisors Inc. (Adai), an affiliate of the Center for Active Design (CfAD), the sole operator of Fitwel, today announced a strategic capital investment led by RET Ventures, a leading real estate technology fund focused on building cutting-edge proptech companies for the multifamily industry…

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Unpacking ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance

As ESG continues to gain in popularity and importance, particularly within the real estate industry, it’s more critical than ever to optimize your strategy. We’re here to unpack it for you so you can understand what it is, how it’s evolving, and how Fitwel can help.

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Fitwel Publishes “Crosswalk” — Pathway To Higher GRESB ESG Scoring

NEW YORK, NY; October 7, 2022 - Fitwel today announced the release of their Fitwel-GRESB Crosswalk for Workplace and Multifamily Scorecards, a tool which cross-identifies Fitwel strategies with industry-leading ESG framework GRESB Real Estate Assessment, specifically supporting the industry in quantifying the “S” — Social — in ESG.

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Connecting with the Green Building Industry

Join us at Greenbuild 2022. The Center for Active Design and Fitwel teams are excited to reconnect with the green building industry at the Greenbuild International Conference + Expo the first week in November. This year, we have a booth sponsorship and multiple panels we will be participating in.

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Understanding Fitwel’s Seven Health Impact Categories

Fitwel addresses health as an interconnected system across seven main impact categories codified through expert analysis of more than 5,600 research studies.

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Leveraging Real Estate to Optimize Human Capital: ESG and Beyond

As investors have grown increasingly focused on impact investing, the real estate community has steadily expanded its efforts to demonstrate a commitment to creating portfolios that positively impact our society. The Covid-19 pandemic has opened dialogue about the need to focus on health.

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Benchmark Report: Health Drives Value in Real Estate

Health Drives Value in Real Estate is a groundbreaking benchmark study from the Center for Active Design and Quadreal that features findings that point to the positive outcomes that health and wellbeing strategies have on tenant satisfaction, and in turn, financial outcomes.

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The New Fitwel Provider & Partner Programs Support the Growth of Fitwel

The Fitwel Provider and Fitwel Partner programs are designed to provide an opportunity for organizations to align with and support the growth of Fitwel.

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Creating Portfolios with Positive Impact

There is a growing demand for reliable metrics that define the role of health within the ESG conversation and we are committed to supporting the movement by driving the adoption of health metrics based on public health data.

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In Alignment with the White House ‘Clean Air in Buildings Challenge,’ Fitwel VRM Safeguards Occupant Health

Fitwel’s Viral Response Module Aligns with the White House ‘Clean Air in Buildings Challenge’

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Fitwel Best in Building Health 2022

A celebration of industry leaders who are using Fitwel to achieve the greatest health and well-being impacts.

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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.