Hines is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our tenants, residents, guests and employees. Many of these opportunities are new or complex, and we are collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders to think creatively to achieve this.

One example is our Founding Alliance membership with the Well Living Lab. This partnership is spearheaded by the International WELL Building Institute™ and the Mayo Clinic to explore the topic of health and wellness in the workplace and residence from a scientific approach. The Well Living Lab is testing how a variety of environmental factors—including air quality, thermal comfort, lighting, acoustics and density—affects stress, sleep and well-being.

Hines’ projects around the world are partnering with leading design firms and consultants to address wellness across a variety of asset classes. For instance, an office property in Europe has been redeveloped with WELL certification in mind, and installed an advanced water filtration system for its tenants and guests. A senior housing project in Manhattan will provide residents with gardens, nutritious dining, connection to the community and a wellness suite with an on-site doctor’s office.

Hines will continue to partner with a variety of stakeholders to find solutions and promote wellness at work and home, develop new buildings, and adapt existing buildings with wellness in mind.

Workstation (Ex-Libris),
Courbevoie, France
Hines’ redevelopment of Workstation (Ex-Libris), a 442,200-square-foot office building in Courbevoie, France, is pursuing WELL certification to recognize improvements to the building that offer better daylighting, air quality, gardens and tenant amenities that support occupants’ well-being.

Currently pursuing LEED® Platinum, 609 Main at Texas is a Class A office tower recently completed in down­town Houston. The project is part of the Hines CalPERS Green Fund, a partner­ship exclusively focused on the development of LEED certified office buildings.

The 48-story tower is carefully crafted to foster the best possible tenant experience while offering cutting-edge green con­cepts. Its north and south façades extend upward, culminating in a dramatic crown to create a highly visible, new landmark that contributes to the vitality of the CBD.

The narrower east and west façades are slightly recessed, and the subtly faceted exterior is clad in a high-performance glass and aluminum curtainwall system, including insulated floor-to-ceiling vision glass with brushed stainless-steel accents. Vertical blades are incorporated in the east and west façades, offering solar shading.

Amenities in the 1.1 million-square-foot tower include a first for Houston—a hotel-style lobby with an 11-story atrium. The property also includes a reflecting pool, a café, and spaces for networking. Tenants enjoy access to a 7,000-square-foot fitness center, an 8,000-square-foot conference center, and private rooftop sky gardens in select tenant spaces.

“This project sets a new market standard, utilizing best practices we’ve learned from our previous developments in Houston and around the world.”

Philip Croker
Managing Director

The building’s tenant spaces set the standard for future development. It is the first multitenant building in Houston to offer underfloor air, which provides an innovative solution to the problem of personal temperature preferences in high-rise spaces. Other sustainable building components include highly advanced safety systems, a rainwater harvesting system, constant air purification system, optimized central plant, energy-efficient lighting and daylight harvesting sensors.

Located at the nexus of Metro light-rail and bus lines, the property also offers a direct connection to the downtown Houston pedestrian tunnel system.