Posts Tagged ‘Fitwel’
Fitwel Announces Certified Metrics Pilot to Substantiate Value & Risk
In Collaboration with EVORA Global, New Pilot Marks Codification of Metrics Connecting Health and Well-Being to “S” in ESG for Commercial Real Estate Industry Fitwel®, the healthy building certification platform operated by the Center for Active Design (CfAD) and Active Design Advisors Inc. (Adai), announced today the launch of its Certified Metrics pilot in…
Read MoreEVORA Global partners with Fitwel to drive wellness in the built environment
Over recent years the focus on people-centric places within the built environment has gathered pace, with investors and tenants alike looking for ways to quantify and recognise the impact of buildings on their occupants as well as the wellbeing credentials of these spaces. This has been driven by a variety of factors, not least the…
Read MoreDesigning Buildings with Women in Mind
Gender perspectives on building design and operation; what does ‘designing a building with women in mind’ actually look like? March 8th is a special day for everyone – not just for women – to acknowledge the incredible strides being made and highlight the continued hinderances to gender equality. This International Women’s Day, I’d like to…
Read MoreEVORA supports Schroder Real Estate Investment Management (SREIM) to achieve the first ‘Fitwel for Workplace: Multi-Tenant Whole Building’ Certification in Europe
The Schroder UK Real Estate Fund office asset, Battersea Studio 1, was officially awarded the first ‘Fitwel for Workplace: Multi-Tenant Whole Building’Certification in Europe. As official Fitwel Ambassadors, EVORA supported in the completion of the assessment. As a ‘Whole Building’ assessment, the Fitwel certification applies to the entire asset and all building users (including tenants),…
Read MoreHQE (Haute Qualité Environnementale) certification for buildings in operation: how does it compare on health and wellbeing?
Although many may not be overly familiar with it (in comparison to the likes of BREEAM and LEED), HQE certification has the strongest presence in Europe by area, with buildings totalling approximately 85 million m2 certified at the end of 2017[1]. While HQE was first developed in France, the new international platform Cerway has brought…
Read MoreHealth and Wellbeing: Emerging or Mainstream?
For many professionals working in the built environment, Health and Wellbeing still feel like relatively new buzzwords. In some ways this is surprising given that the subject area has been around for many years; for example, the term “sick building syndrome” was coined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1986. In reality though, the…
Read MoreFitwel: Five ways Fitwel could benefit you and your buildings
Fitwel was introduced in pilot form in 2014 and officially launched in November 2017. Current uptake statistics are impressive: 95 buildings certified; 620 projects registered; 942 users; and, 661 Fitwel ambassadors in over 22 countries.[1] The concept of health and wellbeing has evolved over time and progressively broadened to incorporate a huge number of issues…
Read MoreHealth and Wellbeing Certification Standards 101
This post was co-authored by Oli Pye, Associate Director and Rhianne Menzies, Junior Sustainability Consultant Momentum behind the topic of health and wellbeing in commercial real estate is building […no pun intended…] and we at EVORA are committed to expanding our expertise in this area significantly. We firmly believe that the health and wellbeing of…
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