Sepia Design Consultants Limited, through our in-house LEED® and WELL® Accredited Professional (AP), can provide specific design input and assistance in the application and certification process for projects relative to the internationally recognized US-based LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and WELL® Certification systems.
Benefits of LEED® Certification
As an increasingly-recognized hallmark of environmentally-sensitive and sustainably designed projects around the world, the benefits of LEED® Certification include:
- Promotes recognition of a project’s commitment to environmental issues in one’s community, organization, and industry.
- Provides third party validation of achievement relative to sustainability and environmental issues.
- Qualifies a project for a growing array of state and local government initiatives.
- Provides marketing exposure through USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) and GBCI (Green Building Certification Institute) websites, Greenbuild Conferences, case studies, and media announcements.
Benefits of WELL® Certification
WELL is the leading tool for advancing health and well-being in buildings globally. Offices, buildings and other spaces can leverage WELL’s flexible framework for improving health and human experience through design. WELL’s guiding principles and benefits include:
- Provides the greatest benefit to the largest number of people, inclusive of all demographic and economic groups and with special consideration to less advantaged or vulnerable populations.
- Proposes interventions that are feasible, achievable and relevant across many applications throughout the world.
- Promotes strong, validated research leading to conclusions that can reasonably be accepted by the scientific community
- Draws upon industry best practices and proven strategies, offering consistency in findings across the relevant field or discipline.
- Defines program requirements through a dynamic development process, with multiple opportunities for stakeholder engagement, and by tapping the expertise of established leaders in science, health, business, design and operations
- Responds to advances in scientific knowledge and technology, continuously adapting and integrating new findings in the field.
- Advances the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals