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HEALTHY AND RESILIENT BUILDINGS
At Highwoods, we are focused on delivering an exceptional customer experience and are passionate about creating workplaces
that allow our customers to achieve their best selves. We aim to prioritize customer health and well-being by deploying evidencebased strategies and proactively planning for unprecedented events, like extreme weather events and global pandemics.
To promote health and wellness in new development and renovation projects, we incorporate amenities and design elements like
outdoor terraces and cafes that encourage activity and connections with the outdoors, healthy eating and collaboration. Many
of our properties include Velocity fitness centers and Take 5 cafés that provide healthy food options. We connect our properties
with outdoor trail systems and natural amenities whenever possible to encourage our customers to incorporate physical exercise
into their daily routines. Additionally, the BBDs in which our properties are primarily located offer rich amenities and strong
connections to our local communities.
We maintain healthy workplaces by implementing a variety of operational strategies that prioritize occupant comfort and health.
We have implemented a comprehensive Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Policy across our portfolio that includes the optimization of
outside air ventilation rates, high efficiency air filtration, ongoing monitoring of key IAQ and occupant comfort indicators and the
use of green cleaning materials and integrated pest management techniques.
We have committed to pursuing Fitwel certification for 100% of our wholly-owned development projects. We believe
that the real estate sector can play a key role in meeting public health demand for championing health and well-being in our
development projects.
GRANITE PARK SIX | DALL AS
WELLNESS AND TECHNOLOGY
Delivered in 2023, Granite Park Six is a new 19-floor, 422,000
square foot, Class A office tower in the 90-acre Granite Park
campus in Plano, Texas. The property was designed to
promote wellness and technology, fulfilling customer desires
for sustainability, walkability, state-of-the-art amenities
and work environments that improve productivity. This was
accomplished through integrating a host of modern
amenities, including a two-story hospitality-inspired lobby
with a café, electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in the
parking garage, customer lounge with a golf simulator,
a top-tier fitness studio with locker rooms and showers, a
lecture hall with seating for 100+ guests and an expansive
outdoor amenity deck with a kitchen and fireplace.
A high-efficiency HVAC system with continuous air purification
was installed to provide optimal indoor air quality without
compromising energy performance. These efforts to champion
customer wellness and environmental sustainability at Granite
Park Six were recently recognized through achieving both LEED
and Fitwel certifications.
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