Well building standard

The WELL Building Standard is a program launched in 2014 that prioritizes human wellbeing in buildings, interior spaces, and communities. It is considered the premier standard for implementing, validating, and measuring features that support and advance human health and wellness. The standard directly addresses the health and well-being of building occupants.From: Communicating Construction [2021], Sustainable Design for the Built Environment [2019]

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Published in Rob Fleming, Saglinda H Roberts, Sustainable Design for the Built Environment, 2019

Rob Fleming, Saglinda H Roberts

Well Building Standard deals directly with the health and well-being of the occupants. Areas covered by the standard are air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort, mind, and innovation. There are 102 performance metrics that are performance tested by a third party. The level of achievement is determined by the amount of strategies employed in each areas.

Determining indoor environmental criteria weights through expert panels and surveys

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Published in Building Research & Information, 2020

Lasse Rohde, Tine Steen Larsen, Rasmus Lund Jensen, Olena Kalyanova Larsen, Kim Trangbaek Jønsson, Evangelia Loukou

International standards sometimes indicate relative inter-area importance such as through PPD or PMV indexes for thermal comfort and IAQ (Fanger, 1970, 1988), but only provide recommendations for performance bandwidths or thresholds limits for single criteria. Since most IE standards are dedicated to a single IE topic, there is little information to be gained for a holistic assessment. Some third-party sustainable building certification schemes such as Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen (DGNB) and the WELL Building Standard do provide weights (or small point ranges) for IE categories, but the suggested weights differ widely between methods (Jensen & Birgisdóttir, 2018; Rohde, Larsen, Jensen, & Larsen, 2019b).

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