**CANCELLED** WELL Overview: Designing for Health and Quantifying Impacts (Virtual)

Healthy buildings can improve occupant well-being, which can be quantified through metrics such as productivity, collaboration, reduced sick days and self-report. This presentation walks through a WELL-certified building to provide a broad overview of the WELL Building Standard and illustrate design and policy interventions to support wellbeing. We discuss pre- and post-occupancy studies of the case study building, referencing relevant scientific studies and recent public health trends. Finally, we review certification costs for a healthy building and how the benefits to an organization can be measured financially.

Objectives include:

1. Cite two examples of public health trends that could be addressed by healthy building design.
2. Define three examples of design interventions that could promote health in the built environment.
3. In the WELL-certified case study building, identify at least two health benefits to the building occupants that were measured in the pre- and post-occupancy studies.
4. Explain at least one example of how the case study building promotes health through organizational policies.

The focus of this session is the WELL Building Standard within the scope of public health and occupant well-being. The ability to explain this standard, alongside policy interventions, coupled with understanding how to implement the best practices from research studies is an important part of ensuring the health, safety, and welfare of building occupants and users.

Presenters:
Tyrone Yang AIA, PhD, WELL AP, Fitwel Ambassador | Health and Sustainability Consultant, Entegra + Architectural Health
Brian Salazar LEED AP BD+C, ID+C, WELL AP | Health and Sustainability Consultant, Entegra + Architectural Health

This session is part of the BSA Summer CE Workshop series, which provides opportunities to earn HSW credits before the state licensing deadline on August 31. Stay up to date on industry issues with these professional workshops, offered Tuesday, August 1 through Thursday, August 10, 2023. BSA members save 50 percent and have their credits reported on their AIA transcript.