WELL Accredited Professional (WELL AP) - WELL-AP

A WELL AP is creating a pest management plan based upon integrated pest management (IPM) principles.
What is the most effective strategy to minimize the use of pesticides?

• A. Ensure all active substances are catalogued as low risk
• B. Provide notifications to all building occupants on the protocol (or pest treatments
• C. Record pest monitoring data and pest events
• D. Create protocols to prevent the attraction of pests

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MILO DESIGN STUDIO - SHENZHEN, CHINA - PROJECT SCENARIO A
MILO is a small, multi-disciplinary design studio with 30 employees located in Shenzhen, China. Their primary business is interior commercial fit-outs and they also offer sustainability consulting. Three of their employees have achieved their WELL AP credential.
They have recently leased one floor 21,528 ft.a (2 000 m2) in a building owned by another organization to use as their new studio office. This space includes floor to ceiling windows on all four exterior walls. While the windows are numerous, they are also highly tinted, with a visible light transmittance of approximately 0.35 (35%). They intend on installing several living plant walls and have included natural fibers and patterns in their finishings throughout.
Their building is located 984.25 ft. (300 m) from an underground train station and across the road (approx.
328.08 ft. (100 m)) from a large public park. While many employees have indicated that they bike to work on bike trails, the new building's landlord will not allow tenants to use the elevators to bring bicycles to their offices. Instead, their building has bike racks at the building entrance, an underground garage for bike storage, small rentable lockers and basic bike maintenance tools.
MILO considers itself a human-centric design firm and leads with a people-first approach through its employee benefits and organizational policies. As an example, they offer a 50% discount on several mindfulness apps and make guided meditation courses available twice per year to all employees on-site.
PROJECT SCOPE & GOALS
MILO has enrolled their office for WELL Certification to demonstrate their commitment to designing for well-being and employee health. They will be renovating and designing the entire fit-out themselves, including new space configurations that will prioritize natural light.
The space layout will include seating for 45 people in an open-plan office with hot-desking, three conference rooms and four individual phone booths. Additionally, they are planning to update lighting fixtures and purchase new office furniture. MILO do not provide any food or beverages on a daily basis except coffee and tea.
MILO is targeting WELL Certification at the Gold level or higher. This effort is being led by one of their inhouse WELL APs.
Which design element would need to be included to meet the requirements of Feature L05 Daylight Design Strategies. Part 2: Integrate Solar Shading?

• A. Task lighting at all workstations
• B. Manual screens/blinds controlled by occupants
• C. Target illuminance of fc (300 lux) for >50% of the unit area
• D. An illuminance ratio of at least 0.4 or 1:2.

A WELL AP is reviewing the color temperature of lights used for a regularly occupied space in an existing office building. What other design consideration should be taken into account when creating a lighting environment that enhances visual comfort?

• A. Illuminance uniformity on horizontal task planes
• B. CRI 90 in circulation areas
• C. Luminance ratios only on vertical adjacent zones
• D. Automatic changes in lighting characteristics over a period of five minutes

An office building is at the design stage. The client has the goal of achieving acceptable thermal environment for building occupants. Which of the following strategies should the WELL AP suggest to address this goal and meet the requirements of a WELL feature?

• A. Utilize natural conditioning when the prevailing mean outdoor temperature is 48°F (9C)
• B. Design a radiant ceiling, wall or floor heating/cooling system for at least 45% of the regularly occupied project area
• C. Include real-time displays of dry-bulb temperature and relative humidity for 50% of regularly occupied spaces and make available to occupants through display screens
• D. Design mechanically conditioned regularly occupied spaces to meet predicted mean value range of +/-
  0.5 for at least 90% of occupied hours and regularly occupled spaces

A small family-run business owned by an accredited nutritionist has noticed an increase in the number of processed foods brought in by employees for lunch. Which strategy could the WELL AP recommend at no additional cost to the client to meet the requirements of Feature N07 Nutrition Education?

• A. Increase the availability of fruit and vegetables in the breakroom
• B. Offer individual dietary consultations by the accredited nutritionist owner
• C. Replace plates and bowls in tweak room with smaller dishware
• D. provide magazine in the breakroom with healthy recipes