IWBI | WELL Building Standard

Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively influence our health through the quality of our surroundings. The WELL Building Standard™ (WELL) is the first building standard to focus on enhancing people’s health and well-being through the built environment.  

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Health & Healthcare

To Walk Is To Create
Movement is one of the WELL Standard’s 10 central pillars that offers over four dozen strategies for integrating movement into workplace design and programming to support health and well-being throughout the workday.

Education & Workforce Development

パナソニック エレクトリックワークス株式会社は、WELL認証を取得したオフィスが、ワーク・エンゲージメントおよびウェルビーイングに寄与することを示すエビデンスを公開
国際WELLビルディング協会（IWBI）とパナソニック エレクトリックワークス株式会社（以下、パナソニックEW）は、本日(2026年5月19日)、WELL認証の効果に関する調査結果を発表しました。WELL認証を受けたオフィス（以下、WELL認証オフィス）では、認証を受けていないオフィス（以下、非認証オフィス）に比べて、従業員のウェルビーイング、エンゲージメント、オフィス環境に対する満足感などすべての項目で、高い結果が得られており、ウェルビーイングを重視した空間戦略と従業員のパフォーマンス、そして組織レジリエンスとの間に関係性があったことが示唆されています

Research & Reports

New Study by Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. Shows Workplaces With WELL Certification Significantly Outperform Non-Certified Spaces in Driving Employee Well-Being and EngagementNew Study by Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. Shows Workplaces with WELL
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) and Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. (Panasonic EW) announced today new findings from a Panasonic EW-led study indicating that WELL Certified workplaces significantly outperform non-certified spaces—delivering substantial gains

Philanthropy

IWBI Supports Future-Ready Facilities Grant to Modernize U.S. School Infrastructure
A new initiative launched by Attune is designed to address a growing challenge across the United States: aging school facilities that lack visibility into critical building performance metrics.

Events

IWBI Launches WELL–GRI Social Topic Standards Alignment Tool To Translate Health, Well-Being and Social Impact Into the Language of Global Sustainability Disclosures
The International WELL Building Institute announced the launch of its WELL–GRI Social Topic Standards Alignment Tool, a resource that maps strategies in the WELL Standard to GRI Social Topic Standards disclosures.

Awards & Rankings

Setting the Nordic Standard: How Castellum’s Decade of WELL Leadership Culminated in a Triple WELL Certified Platinum Milestone
Castellum, a leading commercial property company in the Nordic region, has consistently set a bold benchmark for what advancing human health and well-being looks like in buildings and within organizational strategy.

Events

Global Green, WBCSD and IWBI to Convene Executive Leadership Forum at EarthX to Advance Healthier, More Resilient Cities
Global Green, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) will convene an invite-only Executive Leadership Forum at EarthX this April.

Health & Healthcare

Partners in Activating Healthy Indoor Air
If you were in Dr. Joseph Allen’s class on healthy buildings at Harvard this semester, you’d have begun your first day at the bust of Alice Hamilton on campus.

Health & Healthcare

2026 Outlook: What to Watch for From WELL
As the global authority on transforming health and well-being in buildings, organizations and communities, IWBI’s public health mission remains evergreen: a commitment to creating people-first places.

Research & Reports

$90 Billion Annual Funding Gap Exposes Urgent Need to Modernize America’s Aging School Buildings
The 2025 State of Our Schools report shows that the U.S. now faces a $90 billion shortfall in school facility funding every single year, despite significant progress local school districts have made to ramp up their investments.

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