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.

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Tishman Speyer
The Spiral, Manhattan, New York

Featured Posts

  • 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.

  • The Race to Wellness: Health is Core Business for Real Estate in 2025

    Discover how the real estate industry's shift towards health-focused, sustainable design is enhancing property values and reducing investment risks. Learn about the Best in Building Health Awards, celebrating leaders in this transformative movement.

  • Fitwel and Awair Announce First-of-Its-Kind Data Partnership to Revolutionize Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Verification

    Fitwel and Awair announce a groundbreaking data partnership integrating Awair’s commercial-grade indoor air quality sensors with Fitwel’s healthy building certification platform. The collaboration delivers performance-based verification, reduces documentation, and meets surging tenant demand for healthier, more sustainable indoor environments. 

Recent Posts

Top Takeaways from PERE Asia Summit 2023: How Do Your Buildings Stack Up?

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.

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Fitwel Launches Relational Data Tool that Ranks Portfolio Performance Amongst Peers

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.

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Fitwel Publishes Guide to Measuring 'S' — Revealing Link Between Healthy Building Strategies and Increased ESG Scores & Value

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.

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Location, Location, Location

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.

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BRE Global and CfAD expand partnership, introduce pathway to secure dual Certifications

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.

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