The Hollywood Proper Residences, a 200-unit luxury high-rise in Hollywood from Kilroy Realty, has become the first apartment complex in the US to achieve WELL Multifamily Residential Certification under the WELL Building Standard. The new construction property was built in June 2016 as part of Kilroy's Columbia Square project. The WELL Certification will monitor and measure both health and wellness of the future residents of the space.

“Meeting WELL, a health and wellness standard, was a goal that we established early in the development of the property, but we knew the program would be in a pilot phase,” Chris Heimburger, an SVP at Kilroy Realty tells GlobeSt.com. “Energy efficiency is an additional goal on all our properties, but California's energy code already exceeds that of most of the nation.”

To earn the certification, the property was built healthy building materials to preserve a healthy environment during construction. It also features several green-friendly amenities, like a suite of innovative filtration media that creates performance-verified indoor air quality, an extensive onsite fitness center, increased daylight access, an augmented green cleaning program and performance-verified water quality.

Kilroy's achievement of this certification establishes the firm's commitment to the environment and energy efficiency, as well as wellness. The office buildings in the firm's Columbia Square project have a LEED Gold certification as well. “We think of health and wellness as the next step in sustainability.  Our Columbia Square tower is the first multifamily property to achieve this goal, a standard just developed that actually measures and verifies minimum levels of performance – as a result of our commitment early in the project,” says Heimburger. “It's exciting to raise the bar for other residential communities and challenge them to focus on creating an environment measured to have met minimum air and water quality standards, for example.”

The Hollywood Proper Residences, a 200-unit luxury high-rise in Hollywood from Kilroy Realty, has become the first apartment complex in the US to achieve WELL Multifamily Residential Certification under the WELL Building Standard. The new construction property was built in June 2016 as part of Kilroy's Columbia Square project. The WELL Certification will monitor and measure both health and wellness of the future residents of the space.

“Meeting WELL, a health and wellness standard, was a goal that we established early in the development of the property, but we knew the program would be in a pilot phase,” Chris Heimburger, an SVP at Kilroy Realty tells GlobeSt.com. “Energy efficiency is an additional goal on all our properties, but California's energy code already exceeds that of most of the nation.”

To earn the certification, the property was built healthy building materials to preserve a healthy environment during construction. It also features several green-friendly amenities, like a suite of innovative filtration media that creates performance-verified indoor air quality, an extensive onsite fitness center, increased daylight access, an augmented green cleaning program and performance-verified water quality.

Kilroy's achievement of this certification establishes the firm's commitment to the environment and energy efficiency, as well as wellness. The office buildings in the firm's Columbia Square project have a LEED Gold certification as well. “We think of health and wellness as the next step in sustainability.  Our Columbia Square tower is the first multifamily property to achieve this goal, a standard just developed that actually measures and verifies minimum levels of performance – as a result of our commitment early in the project,” says Heimburger. “It's exciting to raise the bar for other residential communities and challenge them to focus on creating an environment measured to have met minimum air and water quality standards, for example.”