Health and well-being are rapidly emerging as important issues for the real estate industry, which increases opportunities for value creation at various scales of built environment practice.

Health and well-being are rapidly emerging as important issues for the real estate industry and health-focused tools for project teams are increasing in number.

Interested in how ESG benchmarking can directly impact your company’s bottom line? Join the CFO of Measurabl, Nicole Carr and Director of Health Research for the U.S. Green Building Council, Kelly Worden for a webcast.

Chris Pyke, Matt Trowbridge, and Kelly Worden discuss the history of the Green Health Partnership between the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine and USGBC.

GHP partnered with Enterprise Community Partners, one of the largest community development financial institutions in the U.S., to implement aspects of the health process as required elements in the 2015 Enterprise Green Communities Criteria for affordable housing development (see Green Communities Criteria 1.2a and 1.2b). 

The health impacts of transportation, community development, and other construction projects continue to operate largely as economic externalities: unmeasured, unregulated, and for the most part unconsidered.

A new report from the Green Health Partnership utilizes findings from three years of data gathered by the GRESB Health and Well-being Module.

The new Integrative Process for Health Promotion, now available as a pilot credit within the LEED v4 BD+C rating system, guides project teams through a systematic consideration of a project’s health impacts and rewards teams for prioritizing strategies according to existing health needs.

A voluntary add-on to the annual GRESB Real Estate Assessment, the GRESB Health & Well-being Module assesses a real estate company’s internal approach to promoting health for its employees as well as its external approach to promoting health for tenants and communities through real estate fund management.