Top Ambassador Spotlight on Levi Jimenez of Viable LLC: Transforming Real Estate Through Health, One Market at a Time

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Written By Marcos Reynaga
 

In our final feature on Best in Building Health’s 2023 Top Ambassadors, we're pleased to highlight Levi Jimenez of Viable LLC, who is assisting his clients in transforming their assets into connected, health-promoting assets across the U.S. and Canada.

AT A GLANCE

Levi Jimenez, Founder, Viable LLC

Name: Levi Jimenez

Role: Founder, Viable, LLC

Location: Salinas, CA 

Ambassador Since: February 2018

Levi Jimenez, the founder of Viable LLC, has certified over 85 million square feet of commercial green and healthy buildings to date. Levi discusses how becoming a Fitwel Ambassador has assisted his company in diversifying their service offering, as well as his motivation behind transforming the built environment into healthy places to live, work, and play.

Why did you choose to become a Fitwel Ambassador? 
LJ: I was elected to become a Fitwel Ambassador by my peers, as we began experimenting with Fitwel in 2017. Today, Fitwel aligns with Viable’s overall mission of improving the built environment where we live, work and play has always been one of our core principles.

Who made the 2023 Best in Building Health Top 20 Ambassadors list? Find out here.

What do you valued most about being an Ambassador?
LJ: In a time when we used to only focus on performance efficiency, Fitwel allowed us to diversify our service offering with an affordable product at scale. It allowed us the privilege of connecting people to their spaces, with a measurable depiction of how buildings lead to their wellbeing across a broad spectrum of assets, from Charlotte to San Francisco.

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What has been your most memorable project to date?
LJ: Four Oaks Place in Houston, Texas, was by far our largest and most challenging project to date. It was also the property that we discovered to be the most valuable and rewarding. The campus consists of five high rise office buildings, four of which are multi-tenant and one of which is single tenant, totaling 2.3 million square feet. Aside from its sheer aesthetic beauty, the asset features a plethora of outdoor amenities, public transportation access, cafes, and the most accommodating mothers’ facilities we have seen thus far. The project team took this accomplishment very seriously and outperformed our expectations in a market that we had a healthy amount of skepticism about. The management team was also enthusiastic and committed to achieving the ownership's health and wellness goals. This award was well-deserved, and it represents a significant transformational asset in terms of occupant engagement and well-being in the Houston market.

About Viable LLC
Viable is a high performance commercial real estate consultant, dedicated to improving the built environment where we live, work, and play. It’s the intent of our team to find the balance between building performance and human health, to continually improve the daily experiences of building users, and foster an enjoyable experience in the workplace. It is our mission to connect workspaces to the outdoors, and support companies, products and policies that improve our communities without compromising safety or comfort. Viable serves the U.S. and Canada, and is a Certified Green Business, proudly and independently owned and operated in California’s beautiful Monterey Bay. viable-gbs.com

About Fitwel's Top 20 Ambassadors
This year we launched our first-ever annual Top Fitwel Ambassadors list as part of our Best in Building Health Awards. This new initiative highlights industry leaders who have demonstrated exemplary engagement, leadership, and achievements as Fitwel Ambassadors. The honorees were chosen from among nearly 4,000 professionals from 50+ countries for their success in project registrations and Fitwel certifications, as well as the number of people/occupants impacted by those certifications. Learn More

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