Welcome to the future of WELL. Today we launch our spectacular new website and with it a new vision for WELL that is informed by each of you, our core users and advocates who have helped us advance the idea that our buildings and communities can be a powerful tool to enhance our health and well-being.
As active and engaged partners in the development and adoption of the first market version of WELL, you have been instrumental in helping us identify what we need to do to scale rapidly and to find ways to simplify every step of the WELL Certification process.
Some things we have been able to act on immediately through our alternative adherence path (AAP) process. Last month, we released a list of new AAPs, and more recently added four new AAPs that will be especially useful to our global users. We’ll continue to release our AAPs through our quarterly addenda process going forward so we can continue to make ongoing improvements.
We’ll also streamline internal certification processes to ease the flow of communications between project teams, IWBI and GBCI. We’re advancing an end-to-end review of our requirements to make sure we ask for only what we need and that the “hand-offs” are seamless.
We’ve released credit “crosswalks” with Green Star and BREEAM, and will soon release them for LEED and Living Building Challenge, all designed to help project teams deliver more easily on both fronts.