Demonstrate your leadership and commitment to indoor health and well-being
Why us? Why now?
The Well Living Lab Alliance is a powerful cohort of global organizations aspiring to transform the places we live, work, learn, and play. Founded as a collaboration between Delos and Mayo Clinic, the Well Living Lab conducts novel research that is changing the way medicine is practiced and the way buildings are built and respond to people’s needs. A new type of laboratory where human-centered research is conducted in indoor environments, our findings could impact the way you do business — for the better.
Why Join?
Demonstrate your leadership and commitment to indoor health and well-being. Get innovative insights from building, health, behavioral and environmental research. Access to findings to apply to your products and services. Have an opportunity and access to Global knowledge sharing and idea exchange.
Alliance Founding Members
Cushman & Wakefield is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value by putting ideas into action for real estate occupiers and owners. Cushman & Wakefield is the largest real estate services firms with core services of property, facilities and project management, leasing, capital markets, advisory and other services.
Essentia is a global sleep wellness technology company specializing in the engineering and manufacturing of natural and organic foams. With combined technology of proprietary foams and patented cores, Essentia strives to produce the world’s healthiest mattresses.
Gold Mantis was founded in 1993 in Suzhou, China. After 25 years of continuous growth, it has evolved into a modernized corporate group with “decoration industry as the main body with e-business and finance as its two wings”. The company now has over 100 branch companies in and outside China, with more than 18,000 employees. Gold Mantis, a publicly listed company, is an industry leader for green, environmental and healthy decoration in both residential and commercial spaces.
HB Reavis is Europe’s leading innovative workspace provider. Property development at HB Reavis is about emotions. Here, we demand that our developments not only increase productivity – but also excite and inspire users and communities.This ambition is behind each investment decision. It’s at the heart of our approach to design and build. And it guides the way we go on to manage our properties.
Hines is a privately owned global real estate investment firm founded in 1957 with a presence in 201 cities in 21 countries. Hines has approximately $100 billion of assets under management, including $54.5 billion for which Hines provides fiduciary investment management services, and $45.5 billion for which Hines provides third-party property-level services.
HKS is a team of more than 1,350 architects, interior designers, urban designers, scientists, artists, anthropologists and other professionals working together across industries and across the globe to create places that delight, heal and stimulate peak performance. The firm has nurtured a culture of extraordinary people with curious and creative minds who are passionate about delivering elegant solutions.
HOK is a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm. Through a network of 23 offices worldwide, HOK provides design excellence and innovation to create places that enrich people’s lives and help clients succeed.
IBM is a multinational technology company that manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware and software, and offers hosting and consulting services.
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is a public benefit corporation that is leading the movement to promote health and wellness in buildings and communities everywhere. IWBI delivers the cutting-edge WELL Building Standard™️️ and a professional suite of tools to empower our global community of leaders to match their convictions with their careers.
For over 150 years, Milliken has been innovating with the purpose to explore, discover and create ways to enhance people’s lives. Our community of innovators has developed one of the larger collections of United States patents held by a private U.S. company. With expertise across a breadth of disciplines, including specialty chemicals, floor covering, and performance and protective textiles, we work around the world every day to add true value to people’s lives, improve health and safety, and help make this world more sustainable.
Panasonic is a comprehensive electronics manufacturer focusing on production, sales, and services for products ranging from electronic components to home electronic equipment, electrical appliances, factory automation, information/communications, and housing equipment, including building materials, lighting and ventilation.
Sino-Ocean Group, based in Beijing, boasts a multi-regional and diversified portfolio of both development and investment properties.
Structure Tone is a global leader in construction management and general contracting services with offices located in the US, UK, and Ireland. Founded in 1971, we are focused on partnering to imagine, execute and realize our clients’ vision.
Alliance Sustaining Members
Acuity Brands, Inc. is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light, and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (ABL) and the Intelligent Spaces Group (ISG), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives. Acuity is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. The Company is powered by over 12,000 dedicated and talented associates.
Arcascope is a circadian health management platform helping people reclaim control of their time. Leveraging signals from wearable devices, we provide personalized behavioral recommendations and environmental integrations to help shift workers adapt quickly to changing work schedules, travelers adjust faster to new time zones, and people of all backgrounds improve their long-term health and happiness.
Chubb is a premium insurer that specializes in serving successful families and individuals with more to insure. With over 100 years of experience in 54 countries around the world, Chubb has a history of finding ways to say yes and do more for our clients. As the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer, our financial strength and unique combination of people, products, and places position us to serve clients across the globe.
Empire State Realty Trust, a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), owns, manages, operates, acquires, and repositions office and retail properties in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area, including the Empire State Building, the world’s most famous building. Headquartered in New York, New York, the Company’s office and retail portfolio covers 10.1 million rentable square feet, as of March 31, 2020, consisting of 9.4 million rentable square feet in 14 office properties, including nine in Manhattan, three in Fairfield County, Connecticut and two in Westchester County, New York; and approximately 700,000 rentable square feet in the retail portfolio.
Enterprise Community Partners is a national mission-based company that addresses America’s affordable housing crisis with an end-to-end approach: we own and operate affordable homes, invest capital to build and preserve affordable units, advocate for policy at every level, develop and deploy programmatic solutions, and support local partners. We aim to make home and community places of pride, power and belonging.
Ford Motor Company is a global company based in Dearborn, Michigan. The company designs, manufactures, markets and services a full line of Ford cars, trucks, SUVs, electrified vehicles and Lincoln luxury vehicles, provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company and is pursuing leadership positions in electrification, autonomous vehicles and mobility solutions. Ford employs approximately 194,000 people worldwide.
Harrison Street is one of the leading investment management firms exclusively focused on alternative real assets. The firm has invested across senior housing, student housing, healthcare delivery, life sciences, and storage real estate. Headquartered in Chicago with an office in London, the firm has more than 150 employees and approximately $22.9 billion in assets under management.
At Johnson Controls, we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. As the global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet. With more than 135 years of innovation and a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries, Johnson Controls offers the world’s largest portfolio of building technology, software as well as service solutions with some of the most trusted names in the industry.
KB Home is one of the largest and most recognized homebuilders in the United States and has been building quality homes for over 60 years. Today, KB Home operates in 42 markets across eight states, serving a wide array of buyer groups. They are the first builder to make every home they build ENERGY STAR® certified.
Marvin is a fourth-generation family-owned and -led business headquartered in Warroad, Minnesota, with more than 7,000 employees across 16 cities in North America. The Marvin portfolio of products for builders, architects, and homeowners is designed to provide exceptional solutions for any project with a focus on creating better ways of living. Marvin products are distributed nationally through a network of independent dealers and are also exported internationally.
Mitsubishi Electric is a recognized world leader in the manufacture, marketing and sales of electrical and electronic equipment used in information processing and communications, space development and satellite communications, consumer electronics, industrial technology, energy, transportation and building equipment. Embracing the spirit of its corporate statement, Changes for the Better, and its environmental statement, Eco Changes, Mitsubishi Electric endeavors to be a global, leading green company, enriching society with technology.
Noaber Foundation, based in the Netherlands, focuses on healthcare technology as an enabler of healthier lives for patients and people through increased vitality, enhanced independence from formal care and smart delivery of healthcare.
RMZ Corp is the largest privately-owned real estate owner, investor, and developer in India with over 250 enterprise customers in six Indian cities. RMZ was founded eighteen years ago and continues to grow rapidly with 67 million square feet and $10 billion in assets.
Shimizu Corporation is rooted in its long-standing tradition how businesses can contribute to society based on a firm union between ethics and economics. Shimizu’s expertise extends across multiple lines of businesses: Construction, Architecture, Engineering and Property Services.
Sabra, a Maryland corporation, is a self-administered, self-managed leading healthcare real estate investment trust (a “REIT”) investing in skilled nursing, senior housing, and behavioral health facilities across the United States and Canada.
Alliance Supporting Members
ParticleOne creates virus-resilient buildings. Recognizing that healthy indoor air must include infectious disease controls, the building-performance engineers at RWDI developed the predictive software to swiftly model specific viral risks within unique spaces. Easy to implement and use, ParticleOne confirms which engineering controls are required to reduce the transmission risks of multiple viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, influenza, rhinovirus, and RSV. ParticleOne empowers organizations to make science-based decisions to reduce absenteeism and protect the health and productivity of their workforces.