WELL v1

Put people first

WELL v1 offers a framework to help improve health and well-being for everyone that visits, works in, or experiences your building.

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The value of WELL

Wellness is the next trillion dollar industry. WELL can help you play an integral role and reap the following benefits:

  • Prioritize health

    We spend about 90% of our time indoors, and our physical environment impacts our health more than lifestyle, medical care and genetics. For companies, investing in people and helping to improve their physical and mental health is common sense: 90% of corporate expenses are tied to salary and benefits, which means the ROI of healthier and happier employees extends to cost-savings, too.

  • Take a verified approach

    WELL has been vetted through a comprehensive, expert peer review process spanning scientific, practitioner and medical phases - and reflects up-to-date, verified knowledge in the health and wellness sector. The WELL differentiator is performance verification: a data-driven, on-site, third-party assessment of your project to ensure compliance with the standard.

  • Meet your goals

    After meeting required preconditions in WELL, select from optional optimization features to advance the healthy building strategies that are most important to you. WELL works in conjunction with global green building rating systems like LEED, BREEAM, GreenStar and Living Building Challenge to enhance building performance for human health and our environment - which we know are intrinsically linked.

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For all projects

WELL v1 can be applied across many different project types and building sectors, from entire communities to brand new restaurants to office building renovations.

Applies to new and existing buildings, addressing the full scope of project design and construction, as well as aspects of building operations. Types include:

  • Offices
  • Retail spaces
  • Multifamily Residential
  • Education Facilities
  • Restaurants
  • Commercial Kitchens

WELL v1 categories

Air

The issue

Concentrations of some pollution indicators can be 2-5 times higher indoors compared to outdoors.
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Polluted air is the number one environmental cause of premature mortality worldwide. In 2016 alone, poor air quality contributed to about 100,000 premature deaths in the United States and about 6 million premature deaths globally
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The intervention

WELL v1 establishes requirements in buildings that promote clean air and reduce or minimize the sources of indoor air pollution.

The impact

The World Health Organization estimates that 12.7% of deaths could be prevented by improving air quality globally.
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Decreased air pollution could reduce the burden of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, health-care costs, workforce productivity loss due to illness and increase life expectancy for local populations.
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