At what point in the certification process does my project team need to select a WELL Performance Testing Organization for on-site testing?

All projects are different and may decide to contract with a WELL Performance Testing Organization at different phases of the WELL Certification process. The sooner you can determine who will conduct on-site testing for your project, the better. Projects are encouraged to decide who will conduct their on-site testing prior to the time of documentation submission and no later than the anticipated date for the return of documentation submission review. Projects may select their Performance Testing Organization at the time of registration. Contracting during this phase will help projects gather all the costs associated with the WELL Certification process up front. This approach also allows teams to identify which features they would like to conduct pre-testing for, if any. For more information on pre-testing, discover our pre-testing best practices. Other projects may have a work-in-progress schedule where their custom scorecard is frequently evolving. In this case, projects may decide to contract their Performance Testing Organization closer to their estimated testing date. Use this timeline estimator to help estimate the WELL Certification timeline for your project.