CoreNet Houston October Breakfast Meeting
Designing Buildings for Health and Wellness: The WELL Building Standard
The WELL Building Standard is the first protocol of its kind to focus exclusively on human health and wellness in the built environment. WELL identifies specific conditions, that when holistically integrated into building architecture and design, can enhance the health and wellbeing of occupants.
Natasha Franck, Executive Director, Business Development, will share emerging innovations and evidence-based research about how we can design buildings specifically to support the health and wellness of the people who live, work and learn in them. Topics will include an introduction to the WELL Building Standard, costs and benefits, early examples of WELL buildings, and performance-based metrics for health and wellness in the built environment.
The event will help building professionals and owners, design professionals and sustainability consultants who are interested in incorporating health into the design of the built environment.
Join us at to learn how to harness the built environment as a vehicle to support human health, wellbeing and comfort. For more information and to download the standard and certification guidebook, visit www.WELLcertified.com
About the WELL Building Standard: The WELL Building Standard® (WELL) is a performance-based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact the health and wellbeing of the people who live, work, and learn in the buildings. WELL focuses on seven categories of building performance: air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort, and mind. Pioneered by Delos®, the WELL Building Standard is grounded in evidence-based medical research that demonstrates the connection between the buildings where we spend more than 90 percent of our time and health and wellness impacts on us as occupants. The WELL Building Standard is administered by the International WELL Building Institute™ and third-party certified by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI).
Natasha Franck is the Executive Director of Business Development at Delos, a research, technology and real estate consulting group focused on the intersection of health and the built environment. At Delos, Natasha has been part of the development of the WELL Building Standard, and its implementation process throughout the pilot process stage. Natasha worked in project management at Jonathan Rose Companies where she supported the development of a broad cross-section of educational and cultural projects in New York City. Before working at Jonathan Rose Companies, Natasha was an Art Consultant and Project Manager at a corporate art consulting firm in New York City. Natasha holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Georgetown University, and is a WELL Accredited Professional and LEED Green Associate.