Fitwel Blog


Here, you'll find what you need to know from the team including insights from the Center for Active Design experts, award-winning projects, industry profiles, and more.

FITWEL CHAMPION COMPANY
Tishman Speyer
The Spiral, Manhattan, New York

Featured Posts

  • Health at Scale: Global Leadership Defines Real Estate in 2026

    Fitwel’s CEO, Joanna Frank, celebrates this years Best in Building Health Winners and highlights how building health at scale is a defining characteristic of market leadership. Fitwel’s global presence continues to grow, mirroring a world-wide adoption of healthy building practices.

  • 2025: How Consumer Demand for Health Reset Expectations for Real Estate

    2025 marked a turning point for global real estate as consumer demand reshaped how value is created and measured. Backed by new research, international momentum, and a shift toward real-time verification, this year proved that health-focused buildings outperform—delivering rental premiums, stronger tenant satisfaction, and long-term resilience. From Fitwel’s Smart Scorecard innovations to the resurgence of Active Design, the market made one thing clear: health is no longer a trend, but a fundamental driver of performance and investment.

  • Fitwel Introduces the Smart Scorecard Wizard: Intelligent Automation Delivering Certification Efficiency, Accuracy, and Confidence

    Fitwel’s new Smart Scorecard Wizard uses intelligent automation to make certification faster, smarter, and more accurate. By streamlining scorecard selection and approvals, it reduces manual effort, ensures consistency, and empowers users to focus on impact rather than paperwork.

Recent Posts

Setting New Standards for the Next Generation: Eco Utopia Community in Taiwan

Green Matrix Consulting Company's Eco Utopia Community in Yilan County, Taiwan won the Best in Building Health award for Highest Scoring Project of All-Time (Design)! Discover how their innovative design integrates ecology and health, setting new standards for sustainable and healthy communities worldwide.

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Top 20 Ambassador Spotlight: SIG’s Gabriella de la Vera on Enhancing Wellness and Building Trust

As part of our 2024 Best in Building Health series, we’re highlighting Gabriella de la Vera, Wellness Sustainability Consultant at Sustainable Investment Group (SIG) - a TÜV SÜD America Company, for being named as a Top 20 Fitwel Ambassador.

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Celebrating Excellence: BXP’s Katie Gonzalez Named One of Fitwel’s 2024 Top 20 Ambassadors

In our latest Top Ambassador spotlight feature, we’re showcasing Katie Gonzalez, BXP's Sustainability Manager, Reporting & Certifications, who has once again received well-deserved recognition for her commitment to the healthy building movement.

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Pioneering Senior Living: Verena at Hilliard Sets the Bar with Fitwel Certification

The Verena at Hilliard is this year’s Best in Building Health winner for achieving the Highest Scoring Senior Housing Built project. Nestled on a 58-acre expanse of land in Ohio, the community is the first Fitwel-certified senior living property in the state. The Verena stands as a testament to meticulous renovation and health-focused design, emerging as a pioneering space of innovation and wellness.

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QuadReal's Healthy Headquarters: Embodying a Culture of Well-being and Community

This year’s Best in Building Health winner for achieving the Highest Scoring Commercial Interior Space for its own headquarters is QuadReal Property Group, a Fitwel Champion Company who is committed to implementing Fitwel at scale. QuadReal’s National Manager, Meirav Even-Har, sheds light on the winning project and what it means for QuadReal’s strategy, their employees, and the community at large.

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Elevating Standards: BGIS' Record-Breaking Commitment to Healthy Buildings at Scale in Canada

Ontario's BGIS, a leader in integrated facility management and real estate services, made waves in 2023 by breaking records and earning recognition for registering the highest number of projects. Positioned as pioneers in Canada's healthy building movement, BGIS is blazing a trail towards a healthier future. Recently attaining Fitwel Champion status, BGIS is doubling down on their commitment to implementing Fitwel across Canada at an unprecedented scale.

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Redefining Senior Living: How The Pryde is Breaking Barriers, Promoting Health, & Building Strong Communities

This year’s Best in Building Health winner for achieving the Highest Scoring Senior Housing Design award is The Pryde, an affordable housing development for LGBTQ seniors. But in reality, The Pryde is much more than a development, it’s a “beacon of belonging.”

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Individuals Leading the Healthy Building Movement: Top 20 Ambassadors of 2024

As part of this year’s Best in Building Health awards, we’re pleased to announce our second annual Top 20 Ambassadors List. This initiative, launched in 2023, highlights industry-leading professionals demonstrating exemplary engagement, leadership, and achievements as Fitwel Ambassadors.

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Beyond Doing Good: How RXR is Championing Excellence in Sustainability & Health

RXR shows how S-driven initiatives can transform, from proactive tenant engagement to unwavering operational excellence. Please join us as we discuss RXR's success and how their holistic approach to sustainability and health is changing the real estate industry and going beyond ‘doing good’ to defining excellence in Building Health for the industry.

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Winnersh Triangle: Frasers Property UK Brings a Beacon of Health and Sustainability in Workplace Design

As part of our ongoing series on real estate industry leaders defining excellence in Building Health, we’re spotlighting Frasers Property UK (FPUK) for its global 2024 Best in Building Health achievements. Its Winnersh Triangle business park, based in Reading, won the Highest Scoring Commercial Industrial Site v2.1 (Built) Project and the Highest Scoring Built Project this year!

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Unlocking Value Worldwide: UL Solutions Named Best in Building Health for Third Consecutive Year

Fitwel Champion UL Solutions has been named Best in Building Health for the third year in a row, this time for having the most Consultant certifications and completing the highest-scoring Built Community Project in 2023. Learn about their world-renowned expertise in guiding clients through Fitwel Certification, and how they have set award-winning records worldwide.

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The Value of Benchmarking | Establishing ‘Good, Better, Best’

As investors continue to emphasize the importance of health, leading organizations including QuadReal are benchmarking their portfolios using the Fitwel Standard to transform data and ESG metrics into tangible findings. The process followed by QuadReal and the Center for Active Design in Health Drives Value for Real Estate illustrates the power of using Fitwel to benchmark a portfolio’s optimization for health and wellness strategies, providing a clear gap analysis and a recipe for future investments. We include the compelling findings in our second issue of Building Health: Expanding the Evidence.

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