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You Can Now Get a Certification for Health and Wellness

LOS ANGELES—WELL Building is a new health and wellness certification designed for office buildings, and it already has 37 projects in California and growing.

Rick Fedrizzi Rick Fedrizzi is the chairman and CEO of the International WELL Building Institute.

LOS ANGELES—A Health and wellness certification is the newest iteration of sustainable amenities in office space. Official known as WELL Building Standard, the certification ensures include innovative features like circadian lighting systems, healthy food access, designs for enhanced walkability and biophilic elements. CBRE’s global corporate headquarters, Shangri-La Construction’s headquarters, Haworth’s Los Angeles showroom and IOS’s downtown Los Angeles showroom are among the office spaces that already hold the certification, and there are 37 other office projects underway that are expected to secured the certification. To find out why this is becoming such a popular amenity for offices and the benefits of WELL Building Standard, we sat down with Rick Fedrizzi, Chairman and CEO of the International WELL Building Institute, for an exclusive interview.

GlobeSt.com: Why is the WELL Building Standard, also known as WELL, becoming so popular in L.A. specifically?

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.

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