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We believe that people's health and wellness should be at the center of design. That’s why we’re working with industry professionals in real estate, building and medical science, human resources, design and sustainability, finance and technology to address the intersection between health and the built environment. IWBI is collaborating with industry leaders to drive public awareness and advance healthy buildings globally. Through shared research, continuing education, streamlined initiatives, and alignments with leading building standards, our relationships with organizations across the globe are moving health and well-being to the forefront of the sustainable building conversation and creating healthier spaces for people to live, work and play.

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BRE and IWBI Deliver Improved Guidance to Streamline Joint Certification of BREEAM and WELL
BRE and the International WELL Building Institute™ (IWBI™) today released a new, improved briefing paper that outlines how projects may achieve both a certified BREEAM rating and WELL Certification.

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Advancing Human Health Through Global Collaboration

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WELL Story: Air at Haworth Kerry Center, Shanghai
The air we breathe can have a profound effect on our health, wellness and productivity. Air pollution is a growing concern across the world, and as a result it is more important than ever to ensure that our indoor air quality is optimized to support human health. We sat down with the project team that worked on the WELL Certified Haworth Kerry Center in Shanghai to discuss how they implemented design and construction strategies to address the WELL Air concept.

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WELL@Home: Quick Tips to Improve Indoor Air Quality
Think about how much time you plan to spend outdoors today. Research shows that we spend approximately 90% of our lifetime in enclosed spaces, and as much as 69% of that time is within the home. While cooking, cleaning or even comfortably resting on a sofa, we are exposed to millions of invisible air contaminants which can put us at risk for health problems. A recent global burden of disease study, published in The Lancet, demonstrated that household air pollution was rated as the third cause of ill health for the world’s population!

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Vision for Healthy Communities Built Through Industry Partnership

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IWBI, USGBC & GIGA Announce Collaboration to Integrate with Material Databases to Help Project Teams and Product Manufacturers
The International WELL Building Institute™ (IWBI™), the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI), and GIGA have announced a strategic partnership to usher in a new era of materials focus, enabling and supporting the further development of performance-driven, healthy, green buildings.

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Sharing Expertise: IWBI & Hines Continue Collaboration

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IWBI WELL Tip: All Projects In
At IWBI, we believe that all projects and building space types should be able (and encouraged) to apply the WELL Building Standard™. Access to spaces that optimize our health and mental well-being is a fundamental human right. To further this goal, in February 2017, IWBI introduced a pathway for new project types to pursue WELL Certification. This pathway allows for all building type sectors to collaborate with IWBI to adapt the WELL v1 and pilot programs through the creation of a custom scorecard. Our mantra is: all projects in.

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WELL in the UAE: Trailblazing Towards a Happier, Healthier Future
If you spend just a few days in Dubai, it’s clear how critical real estate has been to the city’s economic success and population: construction cranes scatter the sky, huge billboards advertise new homes from mega developers and model communities representing dozens of acres dominate the lobbies of many buildings. Yet real estate has also contributed to some of the biggest health and safety challenges that face Dubai and the broader Middle East today.

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A Vision – and a Standard – for Healthy, Global Communities
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the WELL Community Standard™ pilot, IWBI’s new global benchmark for healthy, inclusive, equitable, integrated and resilient communities.
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