A revised program from the International WELL Building Institute makes it easier to understand how specifications align with the scope of occupant health. The recent evolution of the Works with WELL program introduces expanded alignment pathways and a redesigned platform experience that broadens how manufacturers, and service and solutions providers can demonstrate alignment with the WELL Building Standard and support healthier spaces.
“As the healthy building movement continues to accelerate globally, a growing range of innovative products, technologies, and services are helping advance human health and well-being in the built environment,” says Jessica Cooper, IWBI chief product officer. “This evolution of Works with WELL is designed to match that pace, giving organizations more ways to connect their products and services to WELL strategies, and giving specifiers an easier way to find them.”
Updates include a streamlined, guided submission process, greater flexibility in defining product SKUs or models, easier editing, and the ability to add new images. These new features improve user navigation and enhance visibility in the solution directory.
The Works with WELL mark and its solution directory can help organizations strengthen brand visibility, build customer confidence, and meet growing market demand for healthier, higher-performing spaces. With the updated program, organizations can now pursue alignment through three distinct pathways:
- Directly contributes: products and services that are explicitly called for and meet the relevant criteria within the WELL requirements.
- Measures: products that measure performance thresholds referenced in WELL strategies.
- Supports: products and services that support the implementation of WELL strategies, even when not explicitly referenced within WELL requirements.
The addition of the new “Measures” and “Supports” pathways expands the range of organizations eligible to participate in Works with WELL, opening the program to new categories of technologies, devices, services, and operational solutions that help advance health and well-being.
Originally launched in 2023, Works with WELL is a product licensing program that helps manufacturers showcase how their products contribute to WELL strategies and helps project teams identify solutions aligned with health and well-being goals. The program and its solution directory are additional tools for accessing products and services that have already been validated against WELL strategies.
— With files from IWBI
