The WELL Building StandardA Study of Bengt Dahlgren's office in Stockholm

Sammanfattning: Throughout our lives, we spend approximately 80–90% of our time indoors, and the environment which wereside in is a key factor determining our comfort and well-being. A favorable indoor environment can enhance our quality of life whereas a less than favorable environment may have the opposite effect. A key ambition of several Green Building Certifications is the desire to reduce a building’s environmental impact and energy consumption, and, in addition, the ambition to provide a satisfying indoor environment.The WELL Building Standard (WELL) is an up and coming green building certification explicitly embracing comfort, health and well-being in the built environment. The standard covers seven over-arching topics forwhich the indoor environment is evaluated by; Air, Water, Nourishment, Light, Fitness, Comfort, andMind. Compared to well-established Green Building Certifications like LEED, BREEAM and Miljöbyggnad, the WELL standard is newly introduced on the Swedish market with few current applications. The purpose of this report is to apply WELL for Bengt Dahlgren’s office in Stockholm and provide resultsdemonstrating to what extent the office satisfies the certification. The report will also provide recommendedmeasures so as to reach a desired WELL certification grade. Furthermore, the compliance between WELL and the Swedish Green Building Certification Miljöbyggnad will be studied. The study has been carried out byreviewing the relevant policy, property and equipment documents; conducting technical measurements; andinspecting the conditions of the office area and its surroundings. Correspondence with stakeholders and actorsknowledgeable of the current state of the office have been a constant element throughout the project.  The results show that Bengt Dahlgren’s office currently do not fulfill the required preconditions to be eligiblefor a WELL certification. However, if those preconditions were to be addressed, a completed certificationwould result in a grade corresponding to Silver. By implementing the recommendations provided by the authorit should also be possible to reach the higher certification grade Gold. The study furthermore concludes that WELL and Miljöbyggnad only demonstrate limited overlap. By evaluating Bengt Dahlgren’s office in Stockholm, this report strives to give insight for how a Swedish office facility comply with the WELL certification. The work should also give light to new perspectives and applications regarding health, comfortand well-being which may not be included in traditional Green Building Certifications. The compliance for WELL with Swedish regulations, standards and norms have been treated in this report, however, the topic can be suggested as an area for future work, as there is room for an explicit study concerning this.