Healthy & Sustainable Workplaces
We believe in creating a campus that supports a healthy environment and healthy employees. We work to facilitate collaboration, wellbeing and creative thinking through a combination of design and sustainable practices.
One way we put our sustainability beliefs into action is through our membership in the International WELL Building Institute’s WELL at Scale program. Using this framework for healthy workplaces, we apply rigorous, evidence-based standards across our entire portfolio to prioritize human health. This includes optimizing indoor and outdoor air quality, providing restorative access to nature, and maintaining robust emergency and health support systems.
Our headquarters serves as a model for this commitment, with WELL Health-Safety Ratings and WELL Equity Ratings for buildings across our South San Francisco campus, alongside a growing portfolio of LEED, WELL, and Fitwel certified buildings.
Explore the gallery to learn more about how our spaces on the South San Francisco campus enhance health, wellbeing and sustainability.
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Building 34
B34 serves as a wellness-focused community center, with a fitness center, a health center, a central light-filled atrium, a rooftop garden, and a greywater reuse system to reduce overall water consumption.
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Building 35
As a LEED Gold-certified building, B35 uses significantly less energy per person compared to similar facilities on campus, combining neighborhood-style collaborative zones with abundant natural light to keep employees energized and motivated.
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Building 38
As a LEED Platinum and Fitwel 2 Star-certified facility, B38 is constructed from mass timber, a low-carbon alternative to concrete and steel. It also features biophilic design principles, views of nature and natural light to optimize occupant health.
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Building 50
B50 is a LEED Gold-certified facility that achieves significant reductions in energy use and water consumption.
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Building 73
This LEED Platinum, childcare facility was Genentech’s first mass timber construction and combines native landscaping with a nature-centric design to provide a healthy, sustainable environment specifically tailored for the wellbeing of children.
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Building 86
As the first Fitwel 3-Star lab building in the Bay Area, this all-electric facility eliminates on-site fossil fuel combustion and sets a new standard for air quality, thermal comfort, and acoustic excellence in a lab setting.