IWBI Evolves Works With WELL Program To Expand Alignment Pathways For Products and Services
NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 28, 2026 / New pathways and enhanced platform experience enable more products, technologies and services to align with WELL strategies and support healthier spaces.
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) today announced a significant evolution of its Works with WELL program, introducing expanded alignment pathways and a redesigned platform experience that broadens how manufacturers, service providers and solution providers can demonstrate alignment with the WELL Building Standard and support healthier spaces around the world.
Originally launched in 2023, Works with WELL was created as a product licensing program to help manufacturers showcase how their products contribute to WELL strategies and help project teams more easily identify solutions aligned with health and well-being goals. The program and its solution directory has been a tremendous support tool for project teams and specifiers around the world to access products and services already validated to support WELL strategies. The expanded program introduces a significantly enhanced platform experience for both manufacturers and specifiers, a streamlined application and review process and new pathways for alignment that broaden eligibility beyond product categories explicitly referenced within WELL requirements.
With the updated program, organizations can now pursue alignment through three distinct pathways:
Directly Contributes - products and services that are explicitly called for and meet the relevant criteria within the WELL requirements
Measures - products that measure performance thresholds referenced in WELL strategies
Supports - products and services that support the implementation of WELL strategies, even when not explicitly referenced within WELL requirements
The addition of the new "Measures" and "Supports" pathways significantly expands the range of organizations eligible to participate in Works with WELL, opening the program to new categories of technologies, devices, services and operational solutions that help advance health and well-being in the built environment.
"As the healthy building movement continues to accelerate globally, a growing range of innovative products, technologies and services are helping advance human health and well-being in the built environment," said Jessica Cooper, IWBI Chief Product Officer. "This evolution of Works with WELL is designed to match that pace, giving organizations more ways to connect their products and services to WELL strategies, and giving specifiers an easier way to find them."
The redesigned program also introduces a refreshed user experience for both manufacturers and project teams. Updates include a streamlined, guided submission process, improved flexibility to define product skus or models, ease of editing and adding new images. All of these new features contribute to improved user navigation and enhanced visibility in the solution directory where users can identify products and services validated to align with WELL strategies.
Products and services validated to align with WELL strategies may use the Works with WELL mark to demonstrate how they relate to the global standard for making buildings and organizations a powerful venue for promoting health. The Works with WELL mark and its solution directory can help organizations strengthen brand visibility, build customer confidence and connect with growing market demand for healthier and higher-performing spaces.
As the market for healthy buildings continues to grow, with WELL programs already integrated in nearly 100,000 commercial and residential locations across more than six billion square feet of real estate, the expanded Works with WELL program reflects IWBI's broader effort to support a growing ecosystem of organizations helping advance health, well-being and performance across buildings, organizations and communities.
What Works with WELL participants are saying about the program:
"We've taken the guesswork out of material health. By validating our most‑specified products against WELL's material health features, the Works with WELL mark gives designers and clients a clear, credible path to achieving their certification goals."
Eric Doyle, Global Sustainability, Steelcase
"Joining the Works with WELL program is a natural extension of UNICORN in every stall's mission to support more inclusive and human-centered restroom experiences. The program provides a credible framework that aligns our solutions with leading standards for health, accessibility, and thoughtful building design. We believe the restroom is an important part of the overall building experience, and Works with WELL helps reinforce that vision in a meaningful and tangible way."
Ellen Cynar, MS, MPH, Partnerships & Operations, UNICORN
"By validating that EcoWorx aligns with material health features within WELL, the Works with WELL mark makes it even easier for customers focused on health & wellbeing to make confident purchasing decisions."
Candi Hampton, Vice President of Global Sustainability, Shaw Industries
"For more than 40 years, Logitech has worked with industry leaders to unlock the power of people and teams to do their best work. By collaborating with IWBI and earning the Works with WELL mark on our workplace technology solutions, including Logitech Spot and Rally Board 65, we give global enterprise leaders the tools and real-time insights they need to optimize their workspaces in ways that benefit both people and the planet."
David Houseman, Global Head of Workplace Experience, Logitech
About the International WELL Building Institute
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is a public benefit corporation and the global authority for transforming health and well-being in buildings, organizations and communities. In pursuit of its public-health mission, IWBI mobilizes its community through the development and administration of the WELL Building Standard (WELL), WELL for residential, WELL Community Standard, its WELL ratings and management of the WELL AP credential. IWBI also translates research into practice, develops educational resources and advocates for policies that promote people-first places for everyone, everywhere. More information on WELL can be found here.
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