Building owners can apply for Fitwel’s healthy building certification to implement, track, and benchmark actions and strategies that impact human health and wellbeing. Obtaining a healthy building certification demonstrates the building’s commitment to improving the lives of residents, occupants, and the surrounding communities.

The Fitwel Standard provides tailored scorecards for existing and new buildings and sites to optimize the unique opportunities for every project to receive the Fitwel healthy building certification—whether it’s a single-floor build-out or a large-scale development.

A range of buildings and sites (“projects”) are eligible. Communities, commercial/industrial sites, senior housing, workplaces (multi-tenant base buildings, multi-tenant whole buildings, single tenant buildings, commercial interior spaces), retail buildings, and multifamily residential buildings are all eligible for the Fitwel Certification.

Once the registration, benchmarking, and submission of the documents are complete, Fitwel’s Certification Team will review and provide feedback on the project within 16 weeks. Fitwel Champions and Ambassadors are eligible for expedited certification review timelines of as little as 12 week.

A Fitwel Building or Site Certification is valid for three years.

The Fitwel Viral Response Module is a separate certification that allows companies to adopt new guidance, policies, and procedures for a multi-faceted approach to mitigate the spread of disease on an asset-level basis.

Designed and developed in response to the demand surrounding COVID-19, the module highlights data-driven strategies that mitigate viral transmission and create a healthy environment for all occupants.

Beginning in November 2022, Fitwel launched a Remediation Process available for all projects after completing the Fitwel Final Review.

This new process is completely optional and provides a formal and structured pathway to improve a project’s Fitwel score and/or star rating. The Remediation Process allows project teams to submit additional documentation for strategies that have not been achieved, or attempted, during the initial project submission, within a year from Final Review completion. The process will cost $1,000 per review and cover up to 10 strategies, with Fitwel Champion and Provider companies receiving a 50% discount.

Process Guidelines

• All Fitwel Certifications (excluding Viral Response Approval) are eligible for the Remediation Process.

• Each project may use the Remediation Process 3 separate times within 1 year from the original Final Review completion date.

• Project teams may submit up to 10 different strategies in each Remediation Process.

• For the Remediation Process to be considered complete, documentation must be submitted for all strategies being considered for the review cycle. The Certification Team cannot review any documentation submitted after the Remediation Process has been initiated.

• Regardless of the number of Remediation Processes for a project, Fitwel will recognize the date of the Final Review completion as the official project certification date.

• Projects may be submitted for a Remediation Process review regardless of score or star rating achieved in the initial certification submission.

• The Remediation Process typically takes 2-4 weeks to complete.

Start the process here.