The WELL Building Standard - Commercial Office Space

COVID-19 changed the world as we know it, and how people live safely in it. This is especially true regarding the design priorities of commercial buildings and people’s perception of them. During the pandemic, many people were tasked with learning how to work from home. As the pandemic ebbed, and people began to come back to commercial office spaces, the office conditions needed to be viewed from a different lens. These spaces needed to be seen as safe and healthy. So it's no mere coincidence that the WELL Building Standard, which focuses on human health and well-being in building spaces, has seen a meteoric rise in the past few years. This course focuses on cutting-edge, human health-centered design priorities for commercial buildings, from lighting to living walls and floor coverings to restrooms, andhow pursuing certification in the WELL standard offers guidance and provides third-party verification. This course follows the renovation of a commercial space whose officers used WELL certification to create what one said was "the healthiest office in the country." A series of short videos highlight products and offer a tour of strategies the company used toward WELL certification.

Learning Objectives

  1. Describe how COVID-19 transformed commercial building design priorities.
  2. Discuss how the WELL Building Standard helps to create healthier buildings.
  3. Identify specific features and products geared toward earning WELL Points.
  4. Define the importance of hand hygiene and new product solutions that support it.
  5. Apply lessons from a current project to support future commercial office design projects.

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Credits:

1 AIA LU/HSW

 

 

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