Strategies from the WELL Building Standard that support prevention and preparedness, resilience and recovery relative to COVID-19 were used as a basis to create this Rating Certification.
In March 2020, a group of nearly 600 public health experts, virologists, government officials, academics, business leaders, architects, designers, building scientists and real estate professionals, identified an important need for a third-party designation that would help guide owners and operators towards evidence-based best practices for mitigating the spread of COVID-19 and for navigating this crisis and beyond.