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An office cafeteria buys 60% certified organic produce and labels its sourcing at point-of-decision. In its animal product line, 15% is certified organic dairy and 8% is seafood certified by a GSSI-recognized scheme, with nothing else certified. What is the status of N11 Responsible Food Sourcing?

A project team plans to claim I05 Green Building Rating Systems for a regional green building certification the project already holds. Which condition must that rating system meet for the project to earn the points?

An employer pursuing C10 Family Support, Part 1: Offer Childcare Support subsidizes 40% of off-site childcare costs for regular occupants, offers back-up childcare for unexpected events at no cost, and has a policy allowing all employees to use paid sick time to care for a child. What is the status of Part 1?

A new mechanically ventilated office building is setting its outdoor air supply and exhaust rates, and the system will be tested and balanced after occupancy. Which design guideline, applied to at least 90% of the project area, satisfies A03 Ventilation Design, Part 1: Ensure Adequate Ventilation, Option 1: Mechanically ventilated spaces?

An organization has earned 2 points in Part 1 of I06 Carbon Disclosure and Reduction. Which publicly disclosed carbon goal earns the maximum 3 points in Part 2: Carbon Reduction Goal?

During fit-out of a registered office project, the contractor runs the permanently installed air handling units to condition the space while drywall and flooring work continue. Which filtration approach complies with A04 Construction Pollution Management?

A small tenant fit-out pursuing WELL newly and permanently installs only 18 distinct products across flooring, wall systems, wet-applied products and furniture. The team wants the point for X08 Materials Optimization, Part 1: Select Materials with Enhanced Chemical Restrictions. Which approach is available to this project?

A company offers free weekly 45-minute yoga classes for employees, led in person by a certified yoga instructor at a studio a 1,000 ft (300 m) walk from the project boundary. What change would allow the classes to count toward V06 Physical Activity Opportunities?

A mixed-use building pursuing WELL Certification includes a pharmacy that sells products daily. The owner’s incentive-based quit program and free cessation resources meet Part 1: Provide Tobacco Cessation Resources, and the pharmacy neither sells nor advertises tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. How many points does the project earn in M10 Tobacco Cessation?

A project team in Germany wants to demonstrate compliance with a WELL water testing requirement by applying a national drinking water regulation that is more appropriate to its local market, supported by a comparison of the technical requirements. Which pathway fits this request?

A project pursuing W05 Drinking Water Quality Management, Part 1, Option 2: Water quality monitoring receives its quarterly results from four drinking water dispensers. Which lead result requires remediation and re-testing within a month?

A developer registers a 400,000 ft² (37,000 m²) office building for WELL Core and leases 85% of the floor area to tenants. What is the minimum floor area that must be available for performance testing?

A WELL Portfolio has three completed projects, each meeting all preconditions: Project A scores 72 points with 250 occupants, Project B scores 58 points with 150 occupants, and Project C scores 45 points with 100 occupants. What is the WELL Portfolio Score?

A team disagrees with WELL report findings on three features and believes the test data were misinterpreted. It wants to contest all three findings. How must the appeals be structured?

For X05 Enhanced Material Restrictions, Part 2: Select Compliant Architectural and Interior Products, a supplier’s acoustic ceiling panel tests at 40 ppm of halogenated flame retardants and 250 ppm of orthophthalates by weight. How does the panel count toward the 50% by cost threshold?

A four-story office pursues V03 Circulation Network, Part 1: Design Aesthetic Staircases. Its open main stair serves all floors, has artwork on every floor, and is lit to 14 fc (150 lux) when in use; it has no music, windows, plants or gamification. Which change would achieve the part?

A suburban office park has no supermarket or farmers’ market within a 0.25 mi (400 m) walk and offers no shuttle service. Which program would earn N13 Local Food Environment, Part 1: Ensure Local Food Access through Option 2: Supportive programming?

A lighting designer is setting up the calculation grid for an open office pursuing L03 Circadian Lighting Design. Where must the target EML be achieved at the workstations?

A firm offers all regular occupants mental health workshops twice per year covering managing personal mental health and common mental health conditions. All managers also complete a mental health training that covers all four manager topics, but only once every two years. How many points does the firm earn under M04 Mental Health Education?

Before registering an office building, a team wants IWBI to rule on alternative strategies for five different features, each proposing a different way to meet an existing requirement. How can the team proceed with Alternative Adherence Paths (AAPs)?

A suburban office building with no retail or dwelling units pursues V04 Facilities for Active Occupants, Part 1: Provide Cycling Infrastructure. No cycling network lies near the site, so the team relies on the cycling score of its zip code. What minimum Bike Score is required?

An owner-occupied office (not WELL Core) meets all preconditions and earns 64 points. It has at least 2 points in every concept except Light, where it has only 1 point. Which certification level does it achieve?

To show compliance with a cleaning-related feature, a team highlights the relevant tasks and frequencies on the building’s housekeeping operations schedule and adds notes pointing to each requirement. Which of the required document types for WELL Certification is this submission?

An office meets T01 Thermal Performance, Part 2: Monitor Thermal Parameters through Option 1: Annual testing, using its own facilities staff and handheld meters twice a year. How does the standard treat the devices and methods used for this ongoing monitoring?

A mixed-use developer is choosing which outdoor area to designate under C11 Civic Engagement, Part 2: Provide Community Space, Option 1: Community space. Each area would be offered to the public and has quality seating that is easy to navigate for people of all abilities. Which area meets the option?

An office’s plan for C13 Accessibility and Universal Design, Part 1: Integrate Universal Design includes step-free entrances, color- and texture-coded zones for neurodiverse users, tactile maps, flexible work hours for employees with disabilities, and clear sightlines with good lighting. Assistive listening devices and screen reader software are available to occupants for a monthly rental fee. What must change for the plan to meet Part 1?

A WELL Portfolio submitted its integrated pest management plan for X10 Pest Management and Pesticide Use once as a Shareable document and applied it to 15 retail projects. A year later, the facilities team revises the plan. What does the program require?

During performance verification of a hotel pursuing WELL Certification, the testing agent measures conditions in the hotel’s commercial kitchen during dinner service. Which limit applies to this space under T01 Thermal Performance, Part 1: Provide Acceptable Thermal Environment?

An office with 40,000 ft² (3,700 m²) of regularly occupied area installs radiant floor heating in 18,000 ft² (1,670 m²) and keeps steam radiators in the remaining areas. What is the outcome under T05 Radiant Thermal Comfort, Part 1: Implement Radiant Heating?

An open office with large shared thermal zones pursues T04 Individual Thermal Control, Part 2: Provide Personal Heating Options. A vendor proposes a new personal warming device for every regular occupant that is not a thermostat, space heater, heated chair, footwarmer or blanket. What must the device be shown to do to qualify?

An office tenant has no on-site gym. Which arrangement would earn V08 Physical Activity Spaces and Equipment, Part 1: Provide Indoor Activity Spaces?

A multifamily residential project pursues N10 Food Preparation in its dwelling units. Each unit has a countertop, a sink, a refrigerator, cabinets and a stove with a recirculating range hood. What change is needed to meet the dwelling unit requirements?

An open office records carbon monoxide at 8 mg/m³ (7 ppm), and its nitrogen dioxide result meets the enhanced limit. How does the carbon monoxide result affect A01 Air Quality, Part 3 and A05 Enhanced Air Quality, Part 3: Meet Enhanced Thresholds for Inorganic Gases?

A mechanically ventilated office is located in a city where the annual average outdoor PM2.5 is 30 µg/m³. Under A12 Air Filtration, Part 1, Option 1: Filtration levels, what is the minimum media filtration level for outdoor air supplied to the space?

A restaurant (a Commercial Dining Space) inside a WELL project prepares food daily under contract with the owner. To meet N02 Nutritional Transparency, Part 1: Provide Nutritional Information, what must appear on its menus and menu boards for each standard menu item?

An open-plan office floor (not dwelling units) will not run a daylight simulation and instead uses L01 Light Exposure, Part 1, Option 2: Interior layout. What share of the regularly occupied area on the floor must lie within 20 ft (6 m) horizontal distance of envelope glazing?

A hotel samples water at guest room showers and at the kitchen’s dishwashing sinks for W01 Water Quality Indicators. What is the highest turbidity these outlets may record and still comply?

Performance testing at a WELL-registered hotel measures carbon monoxide in its commercial kitchen during service. Under A01 Air Quality, Part 3: Meet Thresholds for Inorganic Gases, what is the maximum carbon monoxide concentration allowed in this space?

An employer that already offers a qualifying health benefits plan is setting up the community immunity option of C06 Health Services and Benefits, Part 1: Promote Health Benefits. It will run an on-site flu vaccine clinic at no cost to regular occupants, with a campaign on vaccine availability, hand hygiene, cough etiquette and staying home when sick. Peak flu season in the region begins in early December. Which clinic schedule complies?

A project installs new handwashing sinks in its break rooms to earn W08 Hygiene Support, Part 3: Support Effective Handwashing. Which sink design complies?

A project plans to use W02 Drinking Water Quality, Part 2, Option 1: Drinking water quality report, relying on a municipal report issued six months before registration. Which reported pesticide value is within its threshold?

A corporate campus pursuing A10 Combustion Minimization, Part 1, Option 3: Engine exhaust reduction is drafting a rule, with signage, for its pick-up, drop-off and parking areas. What must the rule state?

A mechanical engineer is laying out thermostat zones for an open office and will provide temperature control in at least 90% of regularly occupied spaces. Which zoning density is the least dense layout that still earns 1 point under T03 Thermal Zoning, Part 1: Provide Thermostat Control?

A WELL Certified office earned W07 Moisture Management, Part 3: Implement Mold and Moisture Management Plan, including Option 2: Leaks and mold inspections. Which ongoing action keeps Option 2 in compliance?

A multifamily project pursues L05 Daylight Design Strategies, Part 1: Implement Daylight Plan in its dwelling units. Every unit has vertical envelope glazing equal to 27% of the unit, with a visible light transmittance (VLT) of 45%. How many points does Part 1 earn?

A 60-unit apartment building installs a rooftop hydroponic farming system, open to residents during building hours, to earn N12 Food Production, Part 1: Provide Gardening Space. What minimum actual growing area is required?

A new apartment building will be built on a lot formerly used for automotive repair. The team completes an assessment following ASTM E1527-05 (Phase I site assessment), and it finds no potential presence of contaminants in the soil or groundwater. How can the project document X04 Site Remediation?

A new office’s main entrance opens onto a busy sidewalk. To meet A09 Pollution Infiltration Management, Part 1: Design Healthy Entryways, the designer specifies an entryway system of grilles and rollout mats as wide as the entrance. What minimum length must it have in the primary direction of travel, counting indoor and outdoor portions together?

An employer pursuing N07 Nutrition Education, Part 1: Provide Nutrition Education is planning its program for regular occupants. Which plan complies?

An office installs a sound masking system in its open areas labeled as Quiet zones and Circulation zones, with a 1/3 octave band adjustable output across 100 Hz to 5 kHz. When the system is commissioned for S06 Minimum Background Sound, what is the highest sound pressure level the masking may produce in these open areas?

An office tenant is renovating a floor in a building constructed in 1972, before the local asbestos ban. The inspector’s investigation confirmed asbestos-containing materials, and the action plan calls for removing them. Under X02 Interior Hazardous Materials Management, what must happen before the remediated area is cleared for occupancy?

An office headquarters has 12 conference rooms used for video calls with remote colleagues. To meet S08 Enhanced Audio Devices, Part 1: Provide Enhanced Speech Intelligibility, which approach to these rooms complies?

A classroom in a project pursuing S05 Sound Reducing Surfaces has ceiling panels rated NRC 0.75 over 60% of the available ceiling area. Which wall treatment completes the 1-point requirements for areas for conferencing and learning?

A 120-unit multifamily building pursuing WELL Certification completes L02 Visual Lighting Design performance testing in its lobby, corridors and amenity rooms, but the owner refuses testing inside any dwelling unit. What is the highest certification level this decision allows?

During submittal review for a new office fit-out, the WELL AP collects documentation showing no more than 1,000 ppm of asbestos by weight or area for each newly installed product category covered by X01 Material Restrictions, Part 1: Restrict Asbestos. Which product requires this asbestos documentation?

A three-story office with a staff cafe on level 1 is pursuing W06 Drinking Water Promotion, and its cleaning contract already covers daily cleaning of dispenser outlets, guards, basins and touch points. Which dispenser plan meets the dispenser availability requirements?

An employer must show that at least two mental health strategies are available to all employees at no cost under M01 Mental Health Promotion, and its annual and onboarding communications are already in place. Which combination satisfies the requirement?

A secondary school cafeteria (Commercial Dining Space) offers a self-serve salad and soup bar for students. To meet N06 Portion Sizes, what is the largest bowl the school may provide at the self-serve line?

A new K-12 school pursuing WELL Certification earns exactly one Movement optimization point: V03 Circulation Network, Part 3: Promote Visible Stairs, because its open main stair serves all floors and is reached before the elevators from the main entry. No other Movement optimizations are pursued. What is the outcome for V01 Active Buildings and Communities?

In a multifamily building, every dwelling unit has envelope glazing equal to 9% of its regularly occupied floor area. The team has no daylight simulation and no circadian lighting design. What is the L01 Light Exposure outcome for the dwelling units?

An office building’s emergency management plan covers floods and earthquakes, fire, acute medical emergencies and pandemics, and power loss and chemical spills. Under C03 Emergency Preparedness, Part 1: Develop Emergency Preparedness Plan, which hazard category must still be addressed?

A riverside office uses timber, stone and nature-inspired patterns throughout, and floor-to-ceiling glazing gives every workstation, corridor, seating area and meeting room views of the river and a park. The team proposes adding a fountain and plant walls to satisfy M02 Nature and Place, Part 1: Provide Connection to Nature. What is the correct assessment?

A restaurant kitchen (Commercial Kitchen Space) in a WELL building has the front lower lip of each hood 3.5 ft (1.1 m) above the cooking surface, makeup air velocity near the hoods of 60 fpm (0.30 m/s), and 60% of replacement air supplied as conditioned transfer air. The canopy hoods have no side or partial panels, although local code permits them. Which change is needed to meet A11 Source Separation, Part 1: Manage Pollution and Exhaust?

A hotel lobby pursues the luminaire considerations option of L04 Electric Light Glare Control. Which of its fixtures must meet the glare criteria?

An office cafe run under contract with the owner sells 20 beverage types daily, each with 22 g of sugar or less per container, and 3 of them contain no sugar. Drinking water is not offered for free, and no non-beverage item except whole fruit exceeds 25 g of sugar per serving. What change would allow the cafe to meet N03 Refined Ingredients, Part 1: Limit Total Sugars?

A facility manager reviews a draft integrated pest management plan for X10 Pest Management and Pesticide Use. It lists roles and responsibilities; pest management objectives with identification protocols and metrics of progress; design and operational measures that prevent conditions attracting pests; and records of pest monitoring data, pest events, pesticide applications, control actions and emergency responses. Which required element is missing?

An office team wants optimization points for installing indoor monitors that measure PM2.5, carbon dioxide and ozone at a density of one per 3,500 ft² (325 m²), logging carbon dioxide every 10 minutes and the other parameters hourly. Readings are shown on lobby screens mounted 4.5 ft (1.4 m) above the floor. Which feature is the team pursuing?

A mechanically ventilated office earned A12 Air Filtration, Part 1 at initial certification with media filters matched to its outdoor PM2.5 level. Under Option 2: Filter maintenance, what must the project do on an ongoing basis?

An existing elementary school pursuing WELL has metal playground equipment that was installed and painted before local laws banned lead paint. The paint is chipped in several places, and laboratory analysis of a chip sample following WHO methods finds 120 ppm of lead. No local regulations govern the work. Under X03 CCA and Lead Management, Part 2: Manage Lead Hazards, what is required?

A law firm makes supplemental desk lamps available to occupants at no cost upon request and keeps one lamp available for employees to try. Under L09 Occupant Lighting Control, Part 2, what is the longest time the firm may take to fulfill each request?

A corporate office pursuing N08 Mindful Eating already provides a compliant dedicated eating space. Which meal break policy for eligible employees completes the feature?

A company pursuing M06 Restorative Opportunities, Part 2: Provide Nap Policy and Space provides a compliant nap room, and its policy lets employees nap during their 60-minute lunch break. What change would bring the nap policy into compliance?

A law firm’s policy for M03 Mental Health Services, Part 3: Offer Workplace Support lets employees use sick leave for therapy appointments, take leave with a phased return to work, adjust schedules and workstations, and receive more frequent manager check-ins. Each accommodation is granted only after the employee submits a doctor’s note naming the diagnosis. What is the status of Part 3?

A corporate office’s only food outlet is a vending machine stocked daily under contract with the owner, holding 40 items. Which stocking plan meets N01 Fruits and Vegetables, Part 1: Provide Fruits and Vegetables?

Water delivered to an office for human consumption is tested for W04 Enhanced Water Quality with these results: chloride 180 mg/L, sulfate 210 mg/L, sodium 150 mg/L and total dissolved solids (TDS) 620 mg/L. What is the outcome?

An office pursues W05 Drinking Water Quality Management, Part 1, Option 2: Water quality monitoring. Copper results at its drinking water dispensers have been below 0.1 mg/L in four consecutive quarterly samples. What now applies to copper testing?

For a drafting workstation, the lighting reference used to meet L02 Visual Lighting Design, Part 1 recommends 28 fc (300 lux) on the task surface. Under L09 Occupant Lighting Control, Part 2: Provide Supplemental Lighting, what minimum task surface light level must the supplemental fixture provide?

An employer already meets the WELL feature guide requirement. For the communications option of C01 Health and Wellness Promotion, Part 1: Provide WELL Feature Guide, it proposes short e-learning modules released to all regular occupants once each quarter and assigned to new employees at onboarding, covering the health programs and amenities provided by its achieved WELL features. How does this proposal compare with the requirement?

A company’s mindfulness training course for M08 Restorative Programming, Part 1: Provide Restorative Programming is taught live twice a year by a qualified instructor. The curriculum defines mindfulness and its components and teaches meditation, yoga postures, mindful eating and mindful listening. What must be added for the course to qualify?

A tenant occupies three floors of a multi-tenant office tower and does not operate the building’s boilers, water heaters or hot water risers, and its suite has no cooling towers or spas. Under W03 Basic Water Management, Part 2: Implement Legionella Management Plan, how should the tenant’s plan address the building hot water system?

An employer meets the parental leave option of C08 New Parent Support, Part 1: Offer New Parent Leave. Its return-from-leave policy offers part-time ramp back, work from home flexibility and flexible schedules. Which addition would complete the parental support policies option?

A naturally ventilated school pursues A06 Enhanced Ventilation Design, Part 1: Increase Outdoor Air Supply. Outdoor CO2 is 400 ppm, and its engineered natural ventilation system keeps breathing zone CO2 at or below 850 ppm in all regularly occupied spaces at maximum intended occupancy, but not below 750 ppm. How many points does this earn under WELL Certification?

Cleaning staff in a WELL office use identical reusable microfiber cloths for restroom fixtures and for kitchen countertops, so cloths are often swapped between the two areas. Which specification required by X11 Cleaning Products and Protocols, Part 1: Improve Cleaning Practices addresses this?

An office has 200 workstations, and 60 of them have electric height-adjustable desks for seated and standing work. No other active workstations are provided. What is the outcome?

A company with 600 regular occupants designates an indoor room for relaxation and restoration, not to be used for work, to achieve M07 Restorative Spaces. What is the minimum total area of restorative space required?

A project team has documented all WELL preconditions and earned 35 points from optimizations. What certification outcome can it expect?

A school’s zone plan for S01 Sound Mapping shows four adjacencies. Which one requires the project to provide a plan for reprogramming the spaces or mitigating sound transmission between them?

A performing arts school, where the S04 Reverberation Time space types cover well over 10% of occupiable area, has a 14,000 ft³ (400 m³) music rehearsal room. The consultant’s model shows 1.6 seconds. What reverberation time range must the redesign achieve for this room?

A 60-unit apartment building pursues L06 Daylight Simulation using IES LM-83-12. Every dwelling unit achieves sDA300,50% for more than 55% of its regularly occupied floor area, and 48 units exceed 75%; the building-wide average is 79%. How many points does the project earn?

During an early-planning charrette for a residential tower, stakeholders agree on occupant health and well-being needs and on health promotion objectives. The agenda then moves straight to budget and schedule. To meet C02 Integrative Design, Part 1: Facilitate Stakeholder Charrette, which additional topic must the discussion cover?

An office project pursuing S03 Sound Barriers, Part 1: Design for Sound Isolation at Walls and Doors has a fitness room, labeled a Loud zone, that shares an interior wall with an enclosed conference room. What minimum STC (or Rw) must this wall be designed to achieve?

A hotel pursues S02 Maximum Noise Levels, Part 1: Limit Background Noise Levels. For which of its spaces do the five-minute background noise thresholds of Part 1 not apply?

A project team pursuing T02 Verified Thermal Comfort wants to simplify its twice-yearly post-occupancy survey. Which survey approach is acceptable?

An employer will give every eligible employee a free wearable with a personal dashboard that aggregates metrics over time, to earn V10 Self-Monitoring. Which device specification qualifies?

A project specifies 18 interior wet-applied products (paints, adhesives, sealants and a poured floor finish). All are third-party tested for VOC content under recognized standards, and products representing 70% of total volume are tested for VOC emissions under CDPH Standard Method v1.2. What is the status of X06 VOC Restrictions, Part 1: Limit VOCs from Wet-Applied Products?

An office with a central air handler pursues T07 Humidity Control through mechanical humidity control. What capability must the system have in all regularly occupied areas, excluding high-humidity areas?

A mixed-use building contains open-plan offices and apartments. To pursue S02 Maximum Noise Levels, how must background noise be measured?

HR has assessed absenteeism, turnover and employee survey responses for an M05 Stress Management plan. Which topic must the plan’s section on opportunities to address employee stress cover?

A WELL Certified office offers free public tours four times a year, drawing 120 attendees annually. Each tour includes at least one destination per WELL concept, is listed in the public directory of tours for WELL Certified spaces, and is advertised on the project website. What must change to earn I03 Experience WELL Certification?

A firm administering its annual occupant survey wants department managers to follow up with staff who rated workstation lighting poorly. Which approach is consistent with C04 Occupant Survey, Part 2: Administer Survey and Report Results?