Fitwel has unveiled the 2023 Best in Building Health awards, its annual list of the top global real estate companies and individuals who are leading the healthy building movement by example, leveraging Fitwel’s data-driven, scalable certification platform to set the bar for excellence in building health.
Created in partnership with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and operated by the Center for Active Design (CfAD), Fitwel is a people-centric healthy building certification system that sets the industry standard for evidence-based strategies to promote health and wellbeing through the built environment. The Fitwel Platform integrates asset and portfolio-level benchmarking, a streamlined healthy building certification process, and “S” focused ESG reporting guidance. To date, Fitwel has 1.2 billion square feet registered on the platform, impacting more than 2.6 million people.
“The past few years have been transformational, revealing unprecedented challenges and opportunities for the world, and in particular, the real estate industry,” said Joanna Frank, president and CEO of CfAD. “The demand for healthy building environments has never been higher and, as this year’s Best in Building Health winners have demonstrated, by understanding this demand from the people-perspective, we can increase value in the near term and mitigate risk in the future. Prioritizing health is no longer a reactive market trend – it’s an established business imperative.”
Fitwel’s 2023 Best in Building Health Special Recognition Awards have been given to:
Special Recognition for Industry and Individual Leadership
ESG Impact Through Health: Nuveen
Impact Through Social Value: Sara Neff, Lendlease America
Portfolio Benchmarking: Clarion Partners
Entity Wide Growth: Lionstone Investments
All-Time Achievements
Fitwel Excellence Award
Most Certifications of All-Time: Harrison Street
Fitwel Impact Award
Highest Scoring Built Project of All-Time: Green Matrix Consulting Company/Hon Hai Group/UL Solutions
Fitwel Impact Award
Highest Scoring Design Project of All-Time: Corgan/Peloton Headquarters, New York, NY
2022 Distinctions
Highest Scoring
Highest Scoring of 2022
Design (tie): Lehigh University, Vanderweil Engineers and HGA for Lehigh University Health|Science|Technology Building, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Design (tie): Marriott International, Boston Properties, Bernstein Group and Gensler for Marriott Bethesda Headquarters, Bethesda, Maryland
Highest Scoring of 2022
Built (tie): Element Four for Here Building, Reading, UK
Built (tie): Green Matrix Consulting Company for Hon Hai Group Headquarters, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Greatest Number of Certifications
Consultant: UL Solutions
Owner: Harrison Street
Tenant: Oracle Inc.
Greatest Number of Registered Projects
Building Owner: Harrison Street
Greatest Impact on Building Health
Most People Impacted Across Building Scorecards: UL Solutions
Most People Impacted Across Site Scorecards: Conservice ESG
Highest Square Footage: Boston Properties
Highest Acreage: Conservice ESG
Greatest Impact on Viral Response
Greatest Number of Viral Response Approved Assets: Cortland
Highest Scoring Module (tie):
Paladino & Company for The Meridian Group Portfolio, Meridian Group/Paladino & Company
SCG Building and Living Care Consulting for The Stock Exchange of Thailand
Salesforce and Brightworks (Consultant) for Salesforce
Cushman & Wakefield (Property Manager) and Sustainable Investment Group (Consultant) for 25 Broad Street Condominiums
2022 Highest Scoring Projects
Commercial Interior Space v2.0
Built: AMP and Arup for Quay Quarter Tower, Sydney, Australia
Commercial Interior Space v2.1
Built (tie): CBRE for Texas Instruments Shanghai NBC, Shanghai, China
Built (tie): StraubJunqueira for Layout Itau, São Paulo, Brazil
Design: Marriott International, Boston Properties, The Bernstein Companies and Gensler for Marriott Bethesda Headquarters, Bethesda, Maryland
Single-Tenant Building v2.1 (Built)
Built: Green Matrix Consulting Company for Hon Hai Group, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Design: Lehigh University and Vanderweil Engineers for Lehigh University Health|Science|Technology Building, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Multi-Tenant Base Building v2.0
Built: Tishman Speyer for One Bush Street, San Francisco
Multi-Tenant Base Building v2.1
Built: Jamestown L.P., Verdani Partners and Lincoln Property Company for 18 Tremont, Boston
Built (Recertification): Beacon Capital Partners and Cushman & Wakefield for Bank of America Tower, Houston,
Design: Element Four for Here Building, Reading, U.K.
Multi-Tenant Whole Building v2.0
Built: Oxford Properties for WaterPark Place, 88 Queens Bay, Toronto, Canada
Multi-Tenant Whole Building v2.1
Built: Beacon Capital Partners and Cushman & Wakefield for 1 N. Dearborn, Chicago
Built (Recertification): Vornado Realty Trust for The Mart, Chicago,
Design: Corgan and Vari for VariSpace Coppell, Coppell, TX
Multifamily Residential v2.1
Built: UBS Realty Investors, Lord Green Strategies (now RE Tech Advisors) and RMK Management for 73 East Lake, Chicago
Design: Harrison Street, DLC Europe and CA Ventures for Aster House Belfast (CAV), Belfast, UK
Senior Housing v2.1
Built: Harrison Street and The Springs Living for The Springs at Greer Gardens, Eugene, Oregon
Design: Harrison Street and The Springs Living for The Springs at Happy Valley, Happy Valley, Oregon
Retail v2.1
Built: Oxford Properties Group, CD Sonter, Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) and Ontario Municipal, Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Toronto, Canada
Design: UL Solutions, Shenzhen LVDA Technology Co. Ltd and iCity Hong Kong – Macau (Henqin) Development for iCity – T7, Zhuhai, China
Community v2.1
Design: Specialized Real Estate Group Inc. and Entegrity Partners for South Yard, Fayetteville, AR
Commercial Site v2.1
Built: Atlanta Property Group and Sustainable Investment Group for Palisades, Atlanta
Design: StraubJunqueira (tie) for GOLGI – JUNDIAI, Jundiai, Brazil and GOLGI – DUTRA, Aruja, Brazil
Ambassador Awards
Ambassador with the Highest Scoring Project
Chia Ming Huang for Hon Hai Group Headquarters, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2023 Ambassadors of the Year
Most Registered: Chip Andrews, Cousins Properties
Most Certified: Scarlett White, Lord Green Strategies (now RE Tech Advisors)
Company Recognition
Company with the most ambassadors: Gensler
Company with the most new ambassadors: Cooper Carry
