Sara Neff, Head of Sustainability for Lendlease Americas, was recognized as part of this year’s Best in Building Health awards for committing to leading the industry in understanding and quantifying the value of health when it comes to ESG. She shares how a personal health scare sparked a professional passion and what it means to be Best in Building Health in real estate. Read a preview of her story and insights taken from Fitwel’s inaugural digital publication series, Building Health.

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 15, 2023 — 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 from QuadReal Property Group (QuadReal), a global real estate investment, operating and development company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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.

Ahead of IMN's ESG & Decarbonizing Real Estate Forum, IMN invited Fitwel to participate in a virtual pre-conference course called “ESG 101: What is Environmental, Social and Governance?” Watch the recording here. We’ve also rounded up some of the key takeaways and insights from the panel of experts.

Joanna Frank of the Center for Active Design, operator of Fitwel, will speak in a featured keynote at the PERE Network's Asia Summit in February. The event will feature topics including diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as climate resilience and societal health.

Join us at IMN’s Winter Forum on February 7-8 in Nashville, TN. The Center for Active Design and Fitwel teams are excited to reunite with our global community of Investors, Champions, Partners, Providers, Ambassadors, and industry counterparts. Don’t forget to check out the multiple panels we will be participating in.

Reflections and Takeaways from COP27. We all understand climate change as it relates to physical properties, but we sometimes overlook the impact of climate risk on the people in the buildings. When we think about climate change, we naturally think of rising temperatures and harmful carbon emissions impacting the environment…

Last week, we joined industry leaders for the 20th Anniversary of Greenbuild. While topics spanned climate change, sustainability, equity, and resilience, health and well-being in the built environment took center stage. Here are the top 5 takeaways for a healthier 2023.

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.

On the heels of Hudson Pacific's top 2022 GRESB ranking for sustainability leadership, Center for Active Design’s Director of Applied Research Sara Karerat sat down with Natalie Teear, Hudson Pacific's SVP of Innovation, Sustainability, & Social Impact to discuss the future of building and operating healthier buildings.