what does
WELL AP mean?

Living

As an interior designer, I have always been interested in the affect that the built
environment has on its human users, so taking the WELL AP exam this summer was a
logical step for me.
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Living

I want to give you knowledge about how I use aspects of the WELL Building Process in my designs now and moving forward into the future, in relation to the pandemic.

This has been a crazy 9 months, right? As the world learns to navigate through the pandemic, clients have new needs that interior designers can help them with. A lot of organizations are addressing these needs, and one organization that has already addressed this is the International WELL BDLG Institute.

The WELL Building Standard® is a building performance-based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and well-being through ten concepts: Air, Water, Nourishment, Light, Movement, Thermal Comfort, Sound, Materials, Mind, and Community. It was implemented by the International Well Building Institute in 2014. A building can be certified in different ways: As a new and existing overall building, as new and existing interiors. The WELL Building standard includes these project types: Office buildings, Multifamily residential, core and shell, retail, restaurant, education facilities, commercial kitchens and hotels. WELL is in use by over 4,000 projects in more than 60 countries, encompassing over half a billion square feet of real estate around the world. My journey to taking the WELL AP EXAM in July was seeing what was happening with interior spaces being used differently than we ever could have imagined over the past months this year. As someone who wants to help others, I saw it as an opportunity to learn more about interior design that is specifically honed in on the humans and their evolving needs in a building.

I want to give you knowledge about how I use aspects of the WELL Building Process in my designs now and moving forward into the future, in relation to the pandemic.

This has been a crazy 9 months, right? As the world learns to navigate through the pandemic, clients have new needs that interior designers can help them with. A lot of organizations are addressing these needs, and one organization that has already addressed this is the International WELL BDLG Institute.

The WELL Building Standard® is a building performance-based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and well-being through ten concepts: Air, Water, Nourishment, Light, Movement, Thermal Comfort, Sound, Materials, Mind, and Community. It was implemented by the International Well Building Institute in 2014. A building can be certified in different ways: As a new and existing overall building, as new and existing interiors. The WELL Building standard includes these project types: Office buildings, Multifamily residential, core and shell, retail, restaurant, education facilities, commercial kitchens and hotels. WELL is in use by over 4,000 projects in more than 60 countries, encompassing over half a billion square feet of real estate around the world. My journey to taking the WELL AP EXAM in July was seeing what was happening with interior spaces being used differently than we ever could have imagined over the past months this year. As someone who wants to help others, I saw it as an opportunity to learn more about interior design that is specifically honed in on the humans and their evolving needs in a building.

Being a WELL AP certified professional means I have the credentials to guide project teams through the Well Bldg Certification process. The value that I can offer to a client as a WELL Accredited Professional is that I understand the key concepts that take a building to the next level as far as being a holistic, memorable and now Safe, experience for the occupants: which is really what I always want as a designer anyway.

Being a WELL AP certified professional means I have the credentials to guide project
teams through the Well Bldg Certification process. The value that I can offer to a client
as a WELL Accredited Professional is that I understand the key concepts that take a
building to the next level as far as being a holistic, memorable and now Safe,
experience for the occupants: which is really what I always want as a designer anyway.