WELL
500 Collins Street is Australia's first existing building to achieve WELL Platinum Certification
INTRODUCTION TO WELL
The buildings where we live, work, learn and relax have a profound effect on our health: how we feel, what we eat and how we sleep at night. By examining our surroundings and making key changes, we have the power to cultivate spaces that promote wellness, and support efforts to live healthier, happier, more active lives.
The WELL Building Standard provides a roadmap and a comprehensive set of strategies for advancing human health through the buildings where we spend about 90 percent of our time, while also setting forth a common foundation for measuring wellness as a whole.
Led by the International WELL Building Institute, WELL integrates scientific research with environmental health, behavioural factors, health outcomes and demographic risk factors with leading practices in building design and management.
The result is the premier building standard for advancing human health and wellness – and a blueprint for creating better buildings that can enhance productivity, health, and happiness for people everywhere.
CERTIFICATION
500 Collins is a WELL Core Platinum Certified space. The first existing building in Australia to achieve certification, this verifies that key elements such as the building structure, window locations and glazing, building proportions, the heating, cooling and ventilation system, and water quality are designed for health and will have a positive impact on the tenants, visitors and staff.
WELL Core Certification provides a strong basis of design and performance that makes it easier for tenants to further pursue WELL Certification for their fitouts. By building upon the attributes of a WELL Certified base building, tenants can add wellness-focused strategies that align with the 10 concepts of WELL, promoting movement, encouraging healthy eating and selecting healthy materials for existing and future furnishings and interior finishes. Tenants within WELL Core Certified buildings receive discounted WELL Certification fees, culminating in a head start paired with a financial incentive to pursue their own certification achievements.
A MESSAGE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL WELL BUILDING INSTITUTE
We aspire to advance healthy buildings for all. This has been our mission since we launched WELL in 2014, but today we know a lot more about how to achieve it. We've learned alongside our customers, early adopters of the healthy buildings movement and brave pioneers on the frontier of human-centered design. To create this new version of WELL, we did a lot of research and a lot of listening. We tried to channel all that we learned and all that we heard into a product that is more accessible, more adaptable and more equitable, while still anchored by the latest scientific and medical knowledge.
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