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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.
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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
Safety at Work: How Fitwel Can Help
According to the latest data, fatal work injuries in 2021 were up 8.9% from 2020, and despite advances in technology and machinery over the past five years, nonfatal work injury and illness rates have not declined. In recognition of National Safety Month, learn about the key Fitwel strategies that support employers and developers in prioritizing workplace safety.
Designing for Well-being: How the Built Environment Can Improve Our Mental Health
This rise in mental health conditions has ripple effects on physical health, social well-being, and even the economy. How can the built environment help? Fortunately, there are a number of interventions that can support improved mental health and increased social connectedness.
The Key to Better Indoor Air Quality Management in Buildings
Last year, the Center for Active Design, operator of Fitwel, responded to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) request for information on indoor air quality and disease transmission. To kick off Clean Air Month – and to recognize Air Quality Awareness Week – we’ve rounded up CfAD’s key points.
Environmental Quality & the S in ESG: Insights Coming Soon!
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.
Research Insights: Fitwel Strategies Can Support Your Sleep Resolutions
We know that sleep has a significant impact on our mental health, which is why Fitwel includes many strategies that can help building occupants get better sleep, such as increasing access to daylight, locating workstations near windows, providing room darkening shades, limiting light pollution, and minimizing interior and exterior-sourced noises.
Sustainability and Climate Change from a People Perspective
Reflections and Takeaways from COP27. We all understand climate change as it relates to physical properties, but we sometimes overlook the impact of climate risk on the people in the buildings. When we think about climate change, we naturally think of rising temperatures and harmful carbon emissions impacting the environment…
Prioritizing Health and Wellbeing in Senior Housing at Greenbuild
Thanks to Mariana G. Figueiro, PhD, Director, Light and Health Research Center at Mount Sinai, Moira Kelley, Head of Social Impact, Harrison Street, and Ashley Schulze, Director of Quality, The Springs Living for joining us for our Greenbuild panel discussion on "Prioritizing Health and Wellbeing in Senior Housing".
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.
Unpacking ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance
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.
Understanding Fitwel’s Seven Health Impact Categories
Fitwel addresses health as an interconnected system across seven main impact categories codified through expert analysis of more than 5,600 research studies.
Benchmark Report: Health Drives Value in Real Estate
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.
Fitwel Best in Building Health 2022
A celebration of industry leaders who are using Fitwel to achieve the greatest health and well-being impacts.
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