WELL Building Institute

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is leading the global movement to transform our buildings and communities in ways that help people thrive. IWBI delivers the cutting-edge WELL Building Standard, the first to be focused exclusively on the ways that buildings, and everything in them, can improve our comfort, drive better choices, and generally enhance, not compromise, our health and wellness.

WELL is premised on a holistic view of health: human health as not only a state of being free of disease - which is indeed a fundamental component of health - but also of the enjoyment of productive lives from which we derive happiness and satisfaction. Healthy spaces protect us from that which can make us sick, promote practices that can keep us well, and facilitate opportunities for us to connect with one another and live our lives to the fullest. 

WELL operates on a points-based system, with a total of 110 points available to each project. Projects must achieve all preconditions as well as a certain number of points to earn different levels of certification:

WELL Silver Certification: 50 points
WELL Gold Certification: 60 points
WELL Platinum Certification: 80 points

Projects must earn a minimum of two points per concept. Projects may earn no more than 12 points per concept. At the point of submitting for Documentation Review, projects may submit a scorecard that contains up to 100 points worth of features. Projects can also add on an additional ten points for Innovation to their scorecard.

FEATURE 74 (Comfort): 

Exterior Noise Intrusion, Core and Shell, New and Existing Interiors (Optimization), New and Exisiting Buildings

FEATURE 74 (Comfort): 

Exterior Noise Intrusion, Core and Shell, New and Existing Interiors (Optimization), New and Exisiting Buildings