Winnersh Triangle awarded Best in Building Health award
THE COMPANY behind Winnersh Triangle is celebrating winning top awards for the business park.
Frasers Property UK has scooped Fitwel’s Best in Building Health (BiBH) Awards 2024 for achieving the Highest Scoring Project (Built) and Highest Scoring Project: Commercial Industrial Site v2.1 (Built), both for the Winnersh park based.
Through a third-party certification system, Fitwel is the industry standard for evidencebased strategies that promote health and well-being through the built environment.
The Best in Building Health Award is an annual accreditation, honouring the top global real estate companies and industry leaders.
Winnersh Triangle is a 1.5 million sq ft mixed-use business park with a variety of workspaces that cater to different organisational needs, including Grade A offices for major HQs, to start-up office suites.
The business park is home to a diverse portfolio of companies from the creative, technology and knowledge sectors.
Frasers says it has continued to invest in accessibility across the site, with all amenities, green space and services being easily accessible, including the introduction of safe pedestrian crossings and walking routes and improved signage across the site. Adjacent to the business park is Winnersh Triangle train station, making sustainable travel to and from the park convenient.
The site also offers free-to-use Ryde bikes for occupiers and its five on-site cafés offer and promote healthy food and refreshments.
It also has 90 acres of green open spaces and healthy events programmes including bootcamps, yoga, meditation and chair massage making it an attractive space for occupiers looking to improve the health and well-being of its people.
Jeremy Parsons, sustainability director at Frasers Property UK, said: “Achieving this award and recognition from Fitwel hasn’t been by chance. It highlights the longterm planning, preparation and collaborative effort that we have made as a business over the years; whether this be policy planning, introducing enhancements across the site or conducting occupier surveys to encourage engagement from our community.
“The success and numerous recognitions we have achieved shines a light on the tireless efforts of our team and Frasers Property as a business, in embedding our social sustainability strategy across the places we create.”
Frasers Property UK says it is committed to advancing all pillars of environment, social and governance (ESG) and the Fitwel standard is integral in guiding how the business reviews, measures and progresses its parkbased targets; ultimately helping to assess the ongoing enhancements it makes to its business park portfolio, which promote health and well-being through the built environment.
Joanna Frank, president and CEO of the Center for Active Design, accreditor for the Fitwel Certification System, said: “This year’s winners are true champions exemplifying Fitwel’s global reach, bringing building health to all. Fitwel is empowering industry leaders to implement a framework that prioritises stakeholder health and wellbeing, improves ESG performance, and future-proofs asset value.
“Frasers Property’s achievements demonstrate that this year will be a game changer for the real estate industry, as organisations commit to healthy building strategies at-scale, driving value, and prioritising health.”