A Review of Healthy Building Rating Systems

Mohammad Abbasi and Matt Dempsey contributed to this analysis.

WELL or Fitwel?

For a while, the space was dominated by the WELL Building rating system, but the experience of many architects and consultants has been that WELL was either too expensive or too big an effort to gain owner approval. Since then, we’ve seen the emergence of Fitwel, which has started to gain market traction over the last few years—credit to the Center for Active Design, which has positioned Fitwel as an accessible benchmark that can be more widely adopted and used.