Healthy Buildings: RESET Air quality certification statuses
What is a healthy building?
Healthy building design focuses on indoor air quality (IAQ), visual comfort, light quality, acoustic performance, active design, thermal comfort and cleaning protocols - it requires a combination of multi-sensory design and healthy design strategies.
What is RESET Air healthy building standard?
RESET stands for “Regenerative, ecological, social and economic targets”. Unlike other green building or healthy building standards, such as LEED, WELL or FITWEL, RESET AIR does not insist on any set, prescribed paths towards achieving high quality indoor air results.
Their approach is simply to leave the door open to innovation, how each project gets there is up to the project team. It is the destination that matters most in this instance, RESET do not concern themselves with prescribing the journey.
Applicable to a wide variety of project types, both commercial and residential, RESET leverage the latest data standards that help assess air quality data from reliable sources (almost 20 accredited air quality monitors at the last check).
There are more than 500 RESET Accredited Professionals around the world, assisting as consultants in the RESET certification process for clients and generally championing the RESET indoor air quality program within the real estate industry.
New modules on Materials, Energy, Water and Circularity are in the pipeline to join the Air module that was launched first.
What are the RESET Air certification statuses?
These statuses are a response to the need for greater levels or phases that a project passes through on its path to healthy building certification with RESET.
RESET ENTRY STATUS
A short-term certificate for those with at least one month of continuous monitor data, this was a way to address concern around airborne pathogens in the indoor environment, post Covid-19.
This helps building owners to make a quick decision around improving their air quality in their property.
This status does not require the same calculations on occupants in each space, as one single monitor can be enough to help understand if there are any immediate air quality problems with an indoor space. However the project must use a RESET accredited monitor installed in line with the standard and an accredited data provider.
RESET CONNECTED STATUS
A project with accredited monitors and data provider platforms installed, tapping into the power of the RESET Cloud but not necessarily going forward into full RESET certification.
A way to access the data and used for purposes such as stakeholder / tenant engagement, benchmarking and so on.
Project deployment quantity calculations are recommended but not obligatory. One monitor may suffice here but data is ongoing, not just a 30-day timeline as per ENTRY status.
RESET PRE-ACCREDITED STATUS
For projects with a RESET AP on the team and have created a monitor deployment plan using the standard, calculating how many monitors are required and in which locations, along with a pre-deployment plan that has been approved by a RESET Auditor, making it the Approved Deployment plan of record.
This status reflects the amount of work that has gone into the pre-deployment phase, perhaps even before a building has been constructed. Ideal for design phase projects prior to physical installation.
RESET ACCREDITED STATUS
All steps for deployment and installation have been completed, with data now bing collected through an accredited data provider, just waiting to see the data results. So it is a project 100% ready to go generating high quality data.
RESET CERTIFIED STATUS
Projects that have met all the monitor deployment criteria and the data they provide has passed the performance requirements after a minimum of three month of data.
Multiple stakeholders are likely engaged in maintaining this status as it involves both the building owner and ongoing maintenance via facilities management and tenants.
Contact us to discuss your indoor air quality enquiry or indeed RESET AIr certification.