WELL and Fitwel water
WELL and Fitwel are separate healthy-building ratings. When a project targets one or both, we prepare the water evidence your certification lead needs: quality, drinking-water access and water management, mapped to each scheme on its own terms.
Send us your drawings and whether the target is WELL, Fitwel or both. We'll confirm the scope and the fee.
This page is part of Water Design. Building-performance evidence across energy, daylight, comfort and materials sits on the WELL, Fitwel and LBC certification support page.
Send the drawings, project address, whether you are pursuing WELL, Fitwel or both, the version, and the name of your certification lead. We work to the version your project is registered under. For Fitwel, tell us whether the pathway is before occupancy or after the building is in use.
We provide technical input. Each scheme owner makes the certification decision.
Meeting a WELL water item does not mean a Fitwel water item is met, or the reverse.
WELL, run by the International WELL Building Institute, treats water mainly as occupant health: the quality of water supplied for different uses, how that quality is maintained, and how drinking water is provided. Current public work is under WELL v2. Numeric limits sit in the official feature text; we work to those current requirements rather than reprinting them here.
Fitwel is a different rating, with its own scorecards and versions. For new work, Fitwel v3 is the current version; v2.1 remains available for eligible projects. Its water items typically cover drinking-water access, water-quality testing and a water-management program.
Stormwater quality for council or Green Star Waterway Protection is a different brief. See Blue Factor reports and low-impact development design.
If the project also includes the Living Building Challenge Water Petal, that work is covered on Living Building Challenge Water Petal advisory.
Drinking-water points, filtration access and maintenance responsibility need to appear in the architectural and hydraulic packages while those drawings can still move. A placeholder hydraulic mark-up is usually not enough evidence for either scheme.
Reuse of rainwater or recycled water may support a water strategy, but it is a separate design and approvals question. We coordinate that discussion with the rainwater and potable-water work; we do not treat a tank as proof that a health-rating water item is met.
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A placeholder is usually not enough evidence for either scheme. Drinking-water points, filtration access and maintenance responsibility need to be on the drawings while they can still move.
It isn't. Meeting a WELL water item does not mean a Fitwel water item is met, or the reverse. We map each scheme on its own terms.
A tank is not proof that a health-rating water item is met. Reuse is a separate design and approvals question.
Send the scheme, version and drawings.
We separate the WELL and Fitwel requests and say what the current design already supports.
We document the water input your lead can include. Timeframes are confirmed at quote.
No. They are separate healthy-building ratings. Meeting a WELL water item does not mean a Fitwel water item is met, or the reverse.
No. We provide technical input. Each scheme owner makes the certification decision.
The version your project is registered under. For Fitwel, tell us whether the pathway is before occupancy or after the building is in use.
We do not treat a tank as proof that a health-rating water item is met. Reuse of rainwater or recycled water is a separate design and approvals question.
Drinking-water points, filtration access and maintenance responsibility, in the architectural and hydraulic packages while those drawings can still move. A placeholder hydraulic mark-up is usually not enough evidence for either scheme.
No. Stormwater quality for council or Green Star Waterway Protection is a different brief. For council stormwater, see Blue Factor reports and low-impact development design. For Green Star, see Green Star water credits.
Send us your drawings, the project address, and whether the target is WELL, Fitwel or both.
