11. Operations & Maintenance - Building Design Guidelines

Establish building design guidelines

Rationale: Distributing building design guidelines — which include a series of impactful interventions — can increase implementation of tactics that promote active and biophilic design practices, support occupant sleep quality and mood, and bolster physical activity and immune function.

For the most accurate strategy and documentation requirements, please refer to the digital scorecard made available on the Fitwel Platform.

Requirements

Demonstrate compliance with the below:

Building Design Guidelines (Full Credit):

Provide design guidelines that promote the health and well-being of occupants that meets all the following requirements:

Multi-Tenant Whole Building (no on-site management), Multi-Tenant Whole Building (with on-site management), Multi-Tenant Base Building

1. Establish healthy design guidelines and recommendations for tenant spaces that are at least as rigorous as the Fitwel Healthy Design Guidelines.

The Fitwel Healthy Building Design Guidelines can be found here.

2. Share the healthy building design guidelines and recommendations with all tenants within the building(s) through a minimum of one of the following methods:

• relevant tenant lease or manual
• a digital platform, such as a website, digital application, or display screen in common areas
• communication material, such as notification emails or newsletters.

*Note that tenants are not required to implement these designs. This is guidance to be shared for health promotion and educational purposes.

Compliance Documentation

Design Pathway 

Option 1 

MTWB, MTWB+, MTBB

• Requirement 1
  • Upload a copy of the healthy building design guidelines
• Requirement 2
  • Checkbox to certify that the healthy building design guidelines and recommendations will be shared with all occupants within the project through the following methods (select all that apply):
    • a relevant tenant lease or manual
    • a digital platform, such as a website, digital application, or display screen in common areas
    • communication material, such as notification emails or newsletters

Built Pathway

Option 1

MTWB, MTWB+, MTBB

• Requirement 1
  • Upload a copy of the healthy building design guidelines
• Requirement 2
  • Checkbox to certify that the healthy building design guidelines and recommendations are shared with all occupants within the project through the following methods (select all that apply):
    • a relevant tenant lease or manual
    • a digital platform, such as a website, digital application, or display screen in common areas
    • communication material, such as notification emails or newsletters
• Upload a copy of the materials that are shared with all occupants