FITWEL and the Center for Active Design, an Interview with Joanna Frank
Joanna Frank is the Executive Director of the Center for Active Design (CfAD) in New York, the non-profit spinoff of a citywide initiative started during the Bloomberg administration. I’ve had a great time collaborating with her and her team, along with several others in the building and wellness industries over the last couple of years, and was thrilled to hear that her group will be administering Fitwel, a new building certification that supports healthier workplace environments, created by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the General Services Administration (GSA). We recently got a chance to chat about NYC’s Active Design Guidelines, the new Fitwel tool, and other things that CfAD is doing. It's impressive.
Check out our conversation here!
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