WELL Building Standard v2

What the study found

Organizes health-supportive building strategies into ten concepts with preconditions and optimizations.

Limitations

A rating system synthesizes evidence and practice but individual features vary in direct evidence strength.

Neurodesign interpretation

WELL is most useful to Neurodesign as an operational checklist of variables that can be traced back to mechanisms and tested more deeply.

Possible design implications

Map each WELL feature to its underlying mechanism and evidence layer rather than treating certification as the evidence itself.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain as the taxonomy bridge between Neurodesign research and current healthy-building practice.

Study design

Performance and feature-based rating system

Population

Building occupants

Setting

Multiple building types

Field

Healthy buildings

Mechanism

Multidomain health-supportive building strategies

Spatial variable

Air, water, nourishment, light, movement, thermal comfort, materials, sound, mind, community

Keywords

WELL, healthy buildings, air, light, sound, thermal, materials