Fitwel®, the global healthy building certification and data insights platform, launched phase two of its groundbreaking new solution that, for the first time, quantifies Social performance by overlaying health research and financial data to identify strategies that have the greatest impact on stakeholders and asset value. Phase one was successfully piloted last year in collaboration with sustainability advisor, EVORA Global.

In collaboration with EVORA Global, the new tool is a giant step forward in validating data for real estate, addressing the growing need for a rigorous and standardized approach to integrate the ‘Social,” including health and well-being measures, into ESG reporting.

Fitwel pricing for Building Scorecards is set to increase April 15, 2024. The pricing change comes with a series of notable upgrades designed to elevate your Fitwel experience. Here are 5 things you need to know about how Fitwel is evolving to meet your needs.

Joining the Fitwel Platform has never been more important in future-proofing assets and portfolios. As we continue to roll out new features like our Relational Data Insights tool, we will also release a refreshed version of the Fitwel Standard, Version 3 (v3) in the coming months.

We believe that every building can be a healthy building. And as the demand for health-promoting built environments continues to grow, we’re often asked what exactly makes a building healthy.

This week, our President & CEO, Joanna Frank joined more than 600 of the real estate industry’s leading managers, developers, and investors across the globe — many of them Fitwel Champions, affiliated Partners, and Best in Building Health honorees — in Singapore for PERE’s 16th Annual Asia Summit.

NEW YORK, NY; February 21, 2023 - Fitwel announced today a groundbreaking data insights tool that allows real estate companies to rank their properties’ and entities’ healthy building performance against their peers. A first for the industry, the Relational Data tool adds value to Fitwel Certification by providing users entity-level ranking against like-companies.

NEW YORK, NY; February 7, 2023 — Fitwel announced today new insights to support the correlation between implementing health-promoting operational and design strategies and value in real estate, advancing its efforts to quantify ESG from a people-perspective. The announcement comes on the heels of Fitwel’s publication of the Guide to Measuring “S”, a resource that outlines 5 key areas and metrics for quantifying S in ESG reporting for the real estate industry.

ESG is taking on new meaning in the post-COVID world. Environmental impacts (the "E"), like energy use and carbon emissions, are relatively easy to quantify. Yet it took about ten years for the industry to clearly define how to measure these as standards for ESG reporting. Real estate’s future, however, rests on the measurement and impact of Social (the “S”) frameworks.

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.

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

SAN FRANCISCO, July 9, 2020 — BRE Global and The Center for Active Design (CfAD), operator of the Fitwel Certification System, have today announced continued alignment to promote physical, mental and environmental health throughout the built environment with the introduction of a new a new crosswalk that enables users of BREEAM USA and Fitwel to more efficiently secure both certifications.