General / Rating System Flashcards
State IWB’s Focus
advance the health and wellness of building components in order to help the occupants lead healthier lives
Name IWB’s three Project types
- New and Existing Building
- New and Existing Interiors
- Core and Shell
Name the Pilot Programs offered in v1
- Multifamily Residential
- Retail
- Restaurants
- Commercial Kitchen
- Educational Facilities
- Communities
State IWB’s Mission Statement
”. . . to improve human health and well-being through the built environment.”
How many total Features are offered?
100 + 5 Innovation Features
What are the two kinds of Features offered?
- Precondition
2. Optimization
How often must the building be recertified?
3 years
Name the 7 Concepts
- Air
- Water
- Nourishment
- Light
- Fitness
- Comfort
- Mind
Explain the score card
Rating between 1-10 1-4: not certified (did not meet all preconditions) 5-6: silver 7-8: Gold 9-10: Platinum
Describe the Air Concept
Goal: Achieve optimal indoor air quality to promote more healthful living
How: remove airborne contaminates, pollution prevention, air purification
Features: 29
Describe the Water Concept
Goal: optimize the quality of available water available to building occupants and promote its accessibility
How: ensure water is safe, clean, easily accessible through filtration, treatment, and strategic placement
Features: 8
Describe the Nourishment Cocept
Goal: encourage healthier eating habits and food culture that lead to better health and well-being
How: promote healthier eatin habits through increases availability and visibility; limit availability of bad foods; encourage practice of more responsible eating
Features: 15
Describe the Light Concept
Goal: minimize disruptions to the circadian rhythms of building occupants, enhance productivity, improve physical energy and mood levels
How: promote strategies for better illumination by providing criteria for window performance and design, light output and control, and appropriate visual acuity
Features: 11
Describe the Fitness Concept
Goal: encourage the integration of physical activity into the everyday life of building occupants
How: promote strategies by utilizing building design, accommodating fitness regimens, providing the space and opportunity for an active lifestyle
Features: 8
Describe the Comfort Concept
Goal: Design an indoor environment that is distraction free, productive, and comfortable for building occupants
How: promote strategies for meeting accessibility design standards, providing comfortable furnishings and workstations, controlling acoustics and thermal conditions, reducing known sources of discomfort.
Features: 12
Describe the Mind Concept
Goal: support the mental and emotional health and well being of building occupants
How: provide occupants w/ regular feedback and knowledge about their indoor environment through design elements, relaxation spaces, health treatments and benefits
Features: 17
Describe the Innovation Features:
Goal: promote the continuous advancement of well and allow project teams to achieve higher certification levels
Features: 5
What human body systems does IWB consider?
- Cardiovascular
- Digestive
- Endocrine
- Immune
- Integumentary
- Muscular
- Nervous
- Reproductive
- Respiratory
- Skeletal
- Urinary
Explain how IWB benefits the Cariovascular System
mitigating stress, encouraging healthy nutrition, providing opportunities for physical activity, and eliminating environmental health hazards in the air and water
Explain how IWB benefits the Digestive System
mitigating stress and encouraging healthy nutrition
Explain how IWB benefis the Endocrine system
mitigating stress, encouraging healthy nutrition, and eliminating environmental health hazards in the air and water
Explain how IWB benefits the Immune System
eliminating environmental health hazards in the air and water, mitigating stress, encouraging healthy nutrition, and providing opportunities for physical activity
Explain how IWB benefits the Integumentary System
encouraging healthy nutrition and eliminating environmental health hazards
Explain how IWB benefits the Muscular System
providing opportunities for physical activity and supporting proper ergonomics
Explain how IWB benefits the Nervous System
mitigating stress, encouraging healthy nutrition, providing opportunities for physical activity, eliminating environmental health hazards in the air and water, promoting quality sleep
Explain how IWB benefits the Reproductive System
Encouraging healthy nutrition, providing opportunities for physical activity, eliminating environmental health hazards in the air and water.
Explain how IWB benefits the Respiratory System
eliminating airborne environmental health hazards and providing opportunities for physical activity to strengthen the lungs
Explain how IWB benefits the Skeletal System
encouraging healthy nutrition, providing opportunities for physical activity, and supporting proper ergonomics.
Explain how IWB benefits the urinary System
mitigating stress and eliminating waterborne environmental health hazards
Define Triple Bottom Line
The concept of sustainability that includes the financial, environmental, and social bottom lines of a project
Define the Financial TBL
defines the economic well-being of a company, how the project is financed, and the ROI of the project, which could be positive or negative
Define the Environmental TBL
the project’s impact on land, air, water, plants, and animals as well as the regional and global environmental concerns
Define the Social TBL
impact of the construction of the building on the public as well as the occupants healthiness, happiness, and productivity THIS IS WELL’S PRIMARY FOCUS
Define the Process of WELL certification
Five Steps: Registration Documentation Review, Performance Verification Certification Recertification
What is an Alternative Adherence Path (AAP)
The alternate route that a team can take in achieving a specific feature.
Define a curative action plan
the document that outlines how a team will employ to address unmet criteria as identified in the WELL report
