The WELL Building Standard

I recognize that builders & developers, Architects and Designers and those involved with the built environment, have been thrust into the center of a conversation about health and wellness for which they’re ill-prepared. They’re wondering why they’re suddenly expected to know about nutrition, health & wellness, benefits of access to water and the benefits of circadian lighting strategies, thermal comfort of exercise in the workplace.
As a doctor, I’m exceptionally suited to assist them in helping their clients. Architects and builders need clients to adopt these strategies, but their training doesn’t give them a wellness language. I’m experienced in LEED, and the WELL ™ Building Standard, Living Future Institute strategies and Fitwel. I’m passionate about human health and the health of the occupants of the building.

The WELL ™ Building Standard supports the health & wellbeing of occupants. On that, I’m uniquely qualified to speak, first, as a survivor of a sick building, with a disastrous, insidious illness. Second, as a chiropractic physician and wellness practitioner I learned about WELL ™ and understand what it means to qualify as Green, moving into the WELL ™ Building Standard from LEED and energy efficient building strategies. Third, with an environmental policy and law background I understand the nuances, details and legislative history that are the foundation of ordinances, statutes and the law.

As a specialist in wellness techniques, it’s not uncommon for me to converse about health and wellness as well as sickness in the workplace, nutrition and fitness, ergonomic workstations, and healthy approaches to light and air. The tenets of WELL™ Building Standard align with that. In WELL ™, each of those qualities plays an imperative and synchronous role.

In the early days of the LEED Green Building Movement, many of us had to green our own homes, living spaces, work spaces and cars. As we move into WELL ™ many of us will have to get well ourselves, or participate more in the tenets of WELL ™. As we get well, the buildings will get even healthier and it’s a win/win for everybody involved.