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.

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.

Ahead of IMN's ESG & Decarbonizing Real Estate Forum, IMN invited Fitwel to participate in a virtual pre-conference course called “ESG 101: What is Environmental, Social and Governance?” Watch the recording here. We’ve also rounded up some of the key takeaways and insights from the panel of experts.

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.