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.

As ESG continues to gain in popularity and importance, particularly within the real estate industry, it’s more critical than ever to optimize your strategy. We’re here to unpack it for you so you can understand what it is, how it’s evolving, and how Fitwel can help.

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

Health Drives Value in Real Estate is a groundbreaking benchmark study from the Center for Active Design and Quadreal that features findings that point to the positive outcomes that health and wellbeing strategies have on tenant satisfaction, and in turn, financial outcomes.

A celebration of industry leaders who are using Fitwel to achieve the greatest health and well-being impacts.

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.

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.

The Center for Active Design (CfAD) and QuadReal are proud to announce the publication of A Better Box: Optimizing Industrial Spaces for Employee Health and Wellness which illustrates what strategies work best for the industrial sector when it comes to promoting the health and wellness of occupants.

In two weeks, we will mark the beginning of the third year of the pandemic. If 2020 was the year we naively opined about getting back to normal, then 2021 has been the year we’ve only just begun emotionally and physically reckoning with our changing world. And it is my sincere hope that in 2022, we meet the moment not only with renewed optimism, but with a detailed plan for pursuing the possibilities that come with more human-centric design.

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.

The Center for Active Design (CfAD), BentallGreenOak (BGO) and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) are proud to announce the publication of A New Investor Consensus: The Rising Demand for Healthy Buildings —the largest health and wellness study of global real estate investors ever conducted.

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.