Best in Building Health honors best-in-class real estate companies and individuals who are leading the healthy building movement by example, leveraging Fitwel’s data-driven, scalable technology platform to set the bar for excellence in building health.

In 2020, Fitwel Ambassadors at SCG Building & Living Care Consulting led the first Asian project to receive a 3-Star Fitwel Rating. Since then, SET has received multiple Best in Building Health Awards, Fitwel Viral Response Module certification, and a 3-Star Rating upon recertification in 2022.

Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Centre, which is part of Oxford Property Group’s portfolio, has a 55-year history as Canada's leading super-regional shopping center. As of February 2023, Yorkdale is the only retail property in Canada to finalize Fitwel Retail Building v2.1 Certification, and just one of eight publicly disclosed in the world.

Fitwel’s newly announced relational data tool will dig into performance across several core areas, including overall health promotion achievement, optimization of walkability and transit access, and support of a high-quality environment. Environmental quality is one area that we are especially excited to dig into, given the health impact, opportunity for growth, and demonstrated impact on asset value and social benefit.

The “Taking Care in Business” podcast dives into organizations, nonprofits, and individuals using business as a force for good. Host Vicki Bohlsen talks with Nadine Rachid about a new chapter in the Center for Active Design’s work.

Joining the Fitwel Platform has never been more important in future-proofing assets and portfolios. As we continue to roll out new features like our Relational Data Insights tool, we will also release a refreshed version of the Fitwel Standard, Version 3 (v3) in the coming months.

We believe that every building can be a healthy building. And as the demand for health-promoting built environments continues to grow, we’re often asked what exactly makes a building healthy.

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.

On February 21, 2023, Joanna Frank, CEO of the Center for Active Design, the sole operator of Fitwel, will give the keynote speech at PERE's 16th Annual Asia Summit. Read more about the conference and about the rising demand for Fitwel-certified healthy buildings across Asia.

We’re thrilled to welcome UL Solutions as the latest Fitwel Champion! We sat down with Bryan Astheimer, Operations Manager, Sustainability at UL Solutions (and a certified Fitwel Ambassador) to learn why UL pursued Fitwel Certification at scale and to better understand how Fitwel has provided value to their portfolio.

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.