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 v3 | Empowering Teams to Achieve Certification Efficiently | Image Source: Jadon B / peopleimages.com

    Streamlining Success: Fitwel Platform Upgrades for a Faster Certification Journey

    Discover the latest upgrades to the Fitwel Platform designed to simplify your certification journey. From quicker project registration to integrated documentation tracking and new strategies addressing climate resilience, explore how these enhancements make achieving Fitwel certification faster, easier, and more efficient.

  • Oracle Headquarters, Redwood Shores, CA | Image Courtesy of Oracle

    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.

  • Fitwel® Unveils v3: Pioneering the Future of Healthy Building Certification

    Fitwel, the leading global healthy building certification and data insights platform, has released Version 3 (“v3”) of its evidence-based standard. This update translates the latest public health research to optimize real estate assets for health and quality of life, future-proof them for climate adaptation, and maximize their value.

Recent Posts

Indoor Air Quality Insights: Findings from a Cross-Sector Survey on Maximizing Health and Value

Explore insights from over 250 survey responses on indoor air quality (IAQ) management in real estate. Learn how Fitwel’s updated policies and strategies address challenges like balancing IAQ and energy efficiency, improving stakeholder communication, and implementing cost-effective solutions. Discover resources to enhance IAQ protocols and promote healthier, more sustainable indoor environments.

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Fitwel v3: How New Strategies Add Value

This month’s insights from the Center for Active Design explores the new strategies introduced in Fitwel v3, reflecting the latest research in the built environment. Discover how these evidence-based strategies promote healthier spaces and deliver value to communities and the economy in our latest blog.

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Elevate Your GRESB Score for 2025: Start Planning with Fitwel Today

Plan for 2025: Elevate Your GRESB Score with Fitwel
As GRESB scores roll in, now is the time to plan for 2025. Learn how Fitwel’s health-focused strategies align with GRESB criteria to enhance your ESG performance, boost tenant satisfaction, and secure a competitive edge in the market. Discover how Fitwel can help you maximize your next GRESB submission and set your portfolio up for success.

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CfAD Insights: How Congestion Pricing Drives Healthier and More Equitable Cities

This month’s insights from the Center for Active Design experts focuses on the implications of the new proposed congestion pricing policy in New York City, which is designed to reduce traffic, enhance air quality, and promote health and equity. Learn how this initiative could positively transform urban life in our latest blog.

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Creating a Healthier Blueprint: Q&A with Top Ambassador Belinda Li of Hudson Pacific Properties

In this latest Top Ambassador spotlight feature, Belinda Li of Hudson Pacific Properties explains how the Fitwel Ambassador Program has impacted her expertise and advanced her company’s ESG and sustainability goals.

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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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Insights from MIPIM 2024: Meeting Global Demand with Data-Driven Value

Conversations at MIPIM 2024 highlighted today’s areas of opportunity to create value. Joanna Frank joined more than 20,000 real estate professionals — many of them Fitwel Champions, affiliated partners, and Best in Building Health Award winners — in Cannes, to discuss changing priorities and challenges, and the path forward. Read on for the key takeaways.

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Looking Back to Move Forward: Achievements in Public Health and the Built Environment

In the spirit of awards season, including the recently announced 2024 Best in Building Health Awards, this March we are turning our attention to the historical achievements in environmental design, policy, and engineering for health.

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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.

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Fitwel 2023 Best in Building Health Awards To Be Announced on March 23

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. We are delighted to announce an expansion of Fitwel’s Best in Building Health awards for 2023.

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