You must enroll for recertification before the lapse of your initial certification and are encouraged to enroll six-months prior to the recertification due date.

Filing an application for recertification extends the validity of the project’s original certification period by twelve months, during which time you must satisfactorily complete the recertification process to determine that your project continues to perform to the requirements of the WELL Building Standard (WELL). 

NOTE: This extension means that once a project successfully enrolls to complete the recertification process, the team can continue communicating as being WELL Certified until they complete the recertification process (should be within the 12 month period). 

If you do not file an application for recertification before the expiration of the original certification period or fails to successfully obtain recertification within the 12 month period, your project’s WELL Certification status will expire and you can no longer communicate as being WELL Certified. 

Enroll for recertification

To either enroll under the same version as your initial certification or to upgrade to v2, follow the steps below: 

1. Log into your project on WELL online and navigate to the Dashboard tab.
2. Click on the “Start Recertification” button.
3. Answer the enrollment questions asking about project ownership, size, and the version you’d like to pursue recertification under.

WELL Certification Agreement 

You do not need to resign the WELL Certification agreement when enrolling your project for recertification. The previously signed agreement will apply to the recertification project.

Change of ownership 

Owner-occupied (excluding Multifamily Residential) WELL Certification projects

• New owners for owner-occupied locations that achieved WELL Certification are not eligible for recertification. New owners that would like to achieve WELL Certification are encouraged to start a new project.

WELL Core and Multifamily Residential WELL Certification projects 

New owners of WELL Core and Multifamily Residential WELL Certified projects that want to keep the projects’ WELL Certified status by pursuing recertification should follow the steps below: 

The original owner must: 

• • Decide if they want to keep the documents from their initial WELL Certified project in the project account and transfer them to the new project owner.
    • If they do not want to keep any documents in the project account, the original owner should delete all documents from their project. 
    • If they do want to keep documents in the project account, the original owner should delete any documents that they do not want to keep on the digital platform, then, sign the IWBI Change of Owner for transfer of documents.
  • Add the new owner to the project team.

The new owner must:

• Sign the WELL Certification agreement 
• If the original owner will transfer documents to the new owner, sign the IWBI Change of Owner for transfer of documents.
• Once the form(s) are completed, upload the form(s) through the "Documents" tab of the WELL project account and label the document as "Legal". 
• Contact the IWBI coaching support team through the Support tab of the project indicating that the project owner has changed and that the applicable forms have been uploaded through the Documents tab. The IWBI coaching support team will then confirm that everything has been uploaded properly, change the project owner information in the project account to the new owner, and confirm that the new project owner can continue with the recertification process. 
• To maintain certification and complete the recertification process, the new owner will be responsible for: 
  • Pursuing recertification when the initial project is due (three years after initial achievement). 
  • Submitting annual ongoing reporting documents - learn more about ongoing reporting requirements.
  • At the point of recertification, declaring that the design-based features haven’t changed 
  • At the point of recertification, declaring that they’ve maintained the policies the original owner achieved. To declare this, all policy documents must be resubmitted to show compliance under the new owner