The most effective way to protect human and public health is to build healthy buildings.
What is WELL Certified Building?
WELL What are healthy building properties?
The WELL Building Standard is one of the leading building certification systems in the world, formed by the combination of the green building concept with the healthy building concept. The WELL Building Standard brings the health dimension to the green building concept at a much higher level than the known certification systems for design and operation stages.
WELL is a performance-based certification system that measures, certifies and monitors the elements of the building and built environment that affect human health, and is audited by independent organizations. WELL Certified building users;
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Activity levels,
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Nutritional habits,
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Their mental state,
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Sleep patterns,
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Productivity and
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It is designed considering other factors that affect its performance.
The WELL certification system consists of 7 basic concepts applied to building projects and more than 100 criteria that these concepts contain. Each WELL criterion is designed to address issues affecting the health, comfort and knowledge level of building users within the framework of design, operation and user behavior.
WELL examines the elements of buildings that affect user health in seven categories:
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Air - Healthy Indoor Air in the Building: The WELL Building Standard supports building users to protect and improve their health by reducing the sources of pollutants that cause indoor air pollution and by requiring optimum indoor air quality.
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Water - Healthy Water in the Building: The WELL Building Standard provides building users with access to safe and clean drinking water with appropriate filtration techniques and regular tests.
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Nutrition - Conscious Nutrition in the Building: The WELL Building Standard encourages the availability of fresh, whole-grain foods in building cafeterias or kiosks, while limiting unhealthy foods that contain additives and processed. The building helps its users gain healthy eating habits.
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Lighting - Healthy Lighting in the Building: The WELL Building Standard provides increased productivity with lighting applications suitable for the circadian rhythm of the body (24-hour metabolic cycle sensitive to sun), supports the improvement of sleep quality and provides appropriate visual clarity in the required areas.
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Fitness - Sports and Activity in the Building: The WELL Building Standard makes physical activity a part of daily life with applications that support an active lifestyle.
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Comfort - User Comfort in the Building: The WELL Building Standard allows building users to enjoy their spaces by eliminating distractions, increasing creativity and creating comfortable interiors. It increases the work efficiency of employees in the offices and reduces absenteeism.
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Mind - User Mental Health in the Building: The WELL Building Standard encourages practices that improve the mental and emotional health of building users in building design and operation.
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WELL Certificate is the choice of the world's leading companies.
By putting people at the heart of design, construction, operation and growth decisions, we can add value to our real estate assets, save on personnel expenses, and improve the health and experience of building users.
The building and the built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, guide us to healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively affect our health through the quality of the elements that surround us within the building.
WELL provides project groups with a framework for various strategies to integrate human health into the heart of building design, construction and operation. WELL also provides opportunities for project groups to transform the way people interact with the buildings they live in. WELL allows people to connect with buildings. In addition , it is possible to reduce building operation and personnel expenses with WELL .
WELL Certification levels are below:
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WELL Platinum
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WELL Gold
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WELL Silver
WELL Accredited Expert - WELL AP Title
The WELL Accredited Expert WELL AP title is an advanced title given to experienced building professionals. WELL-targeted projects should definitely work with a WELL AP identity specialist. ECOBUILD is the first company in our country to have a WELL Accredited Expert in its sector.
The WELL Accredited Expert WELL AP title is an advanced title given to experienced building professionals. WELL-targeted projects should definitely work with a WELL AP identity specialist. ECOBUILD is the only company that provides online WELL training in our country.
You can also participate in WELL trainings online and become a WELL Accredited Expert in this regard. All you have to do is attend WELL trainings on the training page.