IWBI Launches Industrial Sector Advisory
Subject matter experts to help inform the evolution of WELL Building Standard
New York, NY (November 13, 2019) – The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) today announced a list of global experts serving on its Industrial Sector Advisory, a group that will convene regularly with their expertise on the industrial sector to guide the continuous development and ongoing implementation of the WELL Building Standard（WELL）.
The Industrial Sector Advisory, comprised of 17 members with recognized expertise in their own fields, is the first of the sector-specific advisories to be formed at IWBI. Collectively, these market sector advisories work towards increasing the feasibility and implementation of WELL in their specific sectors. Participants of these advisories include leading subject matter experts, researchers, practitioners and industry leaders across relevant fields such as public health, medicine, architecture, design and building sciences. Insight drawn from the advisories’ work will guide IWBI’s understanding of how WELL can be better applied to advance the health and well-being for all.
“Ongoing feedback from our industry stakeholders is critical to the continuous evolution of WELL,” said Rachel Gutter, President of IWBI. “By collaborating with industry partners, we are driving WELL towards a broader market transformation and promoting health and well-being through scalable programs such as our recently launched WELL Portfolio.”
The Industrial Sector Advisory include:
Nate Maniktala, Managing Principal, Executive Vice President，(WELL Consultant), BranchPattern, Inc., North America (NE)
Juan Raigosa, Vice President (WELL Consultant), Design Management Services, North America (FL)
Hans Wetterlund, Specialist Energy and Building Physics，WELL Performance Testing Agent, WSP Environmental, Sweden
Alex Ferguson, Managing Director (WELL Consultant), Deltasimons, UK
Arthur Van Kooij, Prologis, Inc., Netherlands
Jennifer Berthelot-Jelovic, President and CEO，(WELL Consultant), A SustainAble Production (ASAP), North America (CA)
Evdoxia Giovannopoulou, Founder, President and Head Designer, Revdesign, North America (CA)
Ken Fong, Senior Acoustics and WELL Consultant, (Engineer - Acoustics/WELL Consultant), Arup, Australia
Michael Girdner, Architect, Corgan, North America (TX)
Jeremy Attema, WELL Consultant, Stok, North America (CO)
Dick Vink, Technical Director, BBI, Netherlands
Cristina Kuo Lin, Principal Environmental Designer, WELL Faculty, Atelier Ten, Singapore
Lilly Maniet, Architect, WELL AP, GLSD Architects, North America (OH)
Eszter Gulacsy, Technical Director, WELL AP, Mott MacDonald, UK
Philip Ivey, Strategic Sustainability Leader, Milliken, Inc
Timo van Vliet, WELL AP, M3E
Lisa Hinde, Director, JLL, Australia, GBCA
In the meantime, IWBI calls for global airport experts to participate in its WELL Airport Sector Advisory for the 2019-2020 term. Contact sector.advisories@wellcertified.com, or click here for more information about qualification, scope of work or fill in application forms.
About the International WELL Building Institute
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is leading the global movement to transform our buildings and communities in ways that help people thrive. The WELL v2 pilot is a recently launched version of its popular WELL Building Standard, and the WELL Community Standard pilot is a district scale rating system that sets a new global benchmark for healthy communities. WELL is focused exclusively on the ways that buildings and communities, and everything in them, can improve our comfort, drive better choices, and generally enhance, not compromise, our health and wellness. IWBI convenes and mobilizes the wellness community through management of the WELL AP credential, the pursuit of applicable research, the development of educational resources, and advocacy for policies that promote health and wellness everywhere IWBI is a participant of the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate citizenship initiative, and helps companies advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the use of WELL. Visit us here for more information
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