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  • 2024 Best in Building Health Announcement March 21, 2024

    Fitwel Announces 2024 Best in Building Health Winners

    Fitwel proudly presents the 2024 Best in Building Health Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in real estate operations and design that have been proven to improve quality of life and maximize value. PGIM Real Estate, Blackstone Real Estate's ESG leadership, Green Matrix Consulting Company, Aldar, Harrison Street, Evolution Sustainability Group, and other notable organizations are recognized for their defining excellence in building health for all.

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    Putting People at the Center to Drive Value for Real Estate | Defining ‘S’ in Six Targeted Outcomes

    There is a proven link between health and value. The research team at the Center for Active Design has been undertaking a years-long process to examine two critical questions facing the real estate industry: what is the quantifiable value of health? and how can climate change and quality of life coexist? Learn about our new framework connecting health-promoting goals to economic value creation in our second issue of Building Health, Expanding the Evidence.

  • Fitwel Help Center: Fitwel Standard v3 Preview

    Fitwel Help Center: v3 Preview

    Take a first look at Fitwel Standard v3! Version 3 reflects insights from the latest public health research and data-based evidence substantiating the valuable link between health and the built environment. Visit our Help Center to learn more.

Recent Posts

Recap | Social Synergy: Shaping up the ‘S’ in ESG with EVORA Global

If you weren't able to tune in to Social Synergy: Shaping up the ‘S’ in ESG webinar with Fitwel’s industry partner, EVORA Global, we've compiled the key takeaways. Hear directly from the experts who are laying the groundwork for understanding the critical – and valuable – role that health-promoting strategies play in real estate: Grace Dickinson, MPH, MSUP, Associate Director, The Center for Active Design, and Sarah Coughlan, Director and Head of Social Wellbeing at EVORA Global.

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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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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.

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"A Better Box: Optimizing Industrial Spaces for Employee Health and Wellbeing" Virtual Panel

While the need to prioritize employee wellbeing in the industrial sector has always been there, the Covid-19 pandemic quickly accelerated demand. Highlighting a series of evidence-based guidelines, the report offers a robust plan for retaining top talent, reducing injury and absenteeism, lowering stress levels, mitigating the risk of contagious disease transmission, decreasing risk of chronic illness, increasing overall job satisfaction, and ultimately improving individual and organizational productivity.

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A New Investor Consensus: The Rising Demand for Healthy Buildings Webinar

Co-authored by the Center for Active Design, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and BentallGreenOak, the study quantifies for the first time the extent to which the industry is focusing on health and wellness in ESG investment strategies. The authors will share insights from an international sampling of real estate investors representing USD $5.75 trillion total AUM.

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Fitwel Best in Building Health 2021

At this year's virtual celebration we highlighted our 2021 winners and reflected on the extraordinary agility of the real estate industry during an unprecedented year. Center for Active Design leadership and guest speakers reported on exciting data and trends that will shape the healthy building movement, now and in years to come.

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Real Estate Industry Insights into Fitwel's Viral Response Module

Real estate industry insights into Fitwel’s Viral Response Module with Hudson Pacific Properties, Nuveen Real Estate, The Tower Companies, and Triovest Realty Advisors.

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Behind the Research: Unpacking the Science in COVID-19 Recommendations

Join the team behind CfAD's latest evidence-based resource, Research to Action: Building Health for All® in the Face of COVID-19 to discuss the first two chapters of this essential guide for the real estate industry.

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