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WELL AP study plan

WELL AP · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Air

  • Map every Air feature to three attributes in your own words: its intent, the type of verification it uses (documentation, performance testing, or on-site inspection), and whether it carries preconditions.

  • Sort Air features into three buckets - source control, dilution/ventilation, and filtration - and justify each placement in one sentence.

  • Compare mechanical, natural, and mixed-mode ventilation strategies and state which Air features each strategy can satisfy.

  • Write a plain-language monitoring plan describing what a building owner must track, how often, and how occupants are informed.

  • Write 20 original questions on Air, answer them closed-book, then re-read the standard for every item you missed.

Your checkpoint

A one-page Air feature map covering all Air features with intent + verification type + bucket, scoring at least 85% on your own 20-question set.

Week 2

Materials

  • Classify every Materials feature as a restriction, an optimization, or a disclosure requirement.

  • Reconstruct from memory the categories of chemicals and material types the standard restricts, then correct your list against the source and log each error.

  • Explain the difference between a health product declaration and a material transparency label, and state which Materials features accept each as evidence.

  • Diagram the documentation workflow a project team follows from specification to submittal to verification for one transparency feature.

  • Separate Materials preconditions from optimizations and identify which documentation must exist before construction starts.

Your checkpoint

A one-page Materials documentation flowchart plus a 30-term chemical and transparency glossary, with an error log from your memory test.

Week 3

Water & Thermal Comfort

  • Trace drinking water from the point of entry to the point of use and mark where each Water feature intervenes.

  • Split Water features into those that address testing, those that address treatment, those that address maintenance, and those that address occupant promotion.

  • Build a threshold table for Thermal Comfort listing, per feature, what is measured, who verifies it, and what evidence satisfies it.

  • Contrast individual thermal control with group or zone-level control and name the features that reward each.

  • Explain two places where Thermal Comfort requirements collide with Air or Light requirements in the same space, and how a design team resolves the conflict.

Your checkpoint

A two-domain comparison sheet of at least 20 rows, plus 80% or better on a 30-question mixed Water and Thermal Comfort quiz.

Week 4

Light & Sound

  • Differentiate visual lighting design requirements from daylight modeling requirements and name the evidence each demands.

  • Explain circadian lighting concepts - spectrum, intensity, and timing - and identify which Light features depend on them.

  • Group Sound features into exterior noise, interior noise, and room acoustics, and state the design lever for each group.

  • For every Sound feature, record what is measured, at what project stage, and by whom.

  • Compare the occupant-facing behaviors rewarded by Light features and by Sound features, and note where the two domains reinforce each other.

Your checkpoint

Two single-page cheat sheets (Light, Sound) of 15 lines or fewer each, then 80% or better on a 40-question timed mixed quiz.

Week 5

Nourishment & Movement

  • Group Nourishment features into food access, food labeling and messaging, and eating environment, and give one realistic project example per group.

  • Derive the internal logic behind the standard's food-quality requirements - why it targets added sugar, refined grains, portion size, and produce availability - rather than memorizing numbers.

  • Arrange Movement features along the activity continuum from sedentary reduction to active design to fitness access.

  • Run a 10-item stair, walkway, and amenity audit of your own building or neighborhood and score it.

  • List the overlaps of Nourishment and Movement with Mind and Community, citing one shared strategy per overlap.

Your checkpoint

A completed and scored 10-item movement audit of your own building, plus 80% or better on a self-check covering both domains.

Week 6

Mind & Community

  • Separate Mind features into mental health promotion, nature connection, and occupant empowerment, giving one intervention per category.

  • Explain how Community features turn health literacy, emergency preparedness, and stakeholder engagement into verifiable requirements.

  • Identify every domain that relies on a written policy rather than a design intervention, and note why that distinction matters for documentation.

  • Draft a short occupant survey plan you could deploy post-occupancy to evaluate health and well-being outcomes.

  • State how Mind and Community requirements are typically evidenced at performance verification, and name the evidence you would collect.

Your checkpoint

A one-page draft occupant well-being survey plus a Mind and Community evidence table with a row for every feature in both domains.

Week 7

Air & Materials

  • Re-drill Air and Materials from memory - rebuild both one-page maps closed-book and diff them against your week 1 and week 2 versions.

  • Take one full-length timed practice exam under real test conditions and record per-domain accuracy.

  • Convert every missed question into a flashcard in your own words and clear the deck.

  • Rank all ten domains by mock accuracy and build a ranked remediation list for the final two weeks.

Your checkpoint

A full-length timed mock exam completed with a per-domain score table and a ranked remediation list of at least 10 items.

Week 8

Thermal Comfort & Sound

  • Drill the threshold- and measurement-heavy content of Thermal Comfort and Sound until you can state each requirement's measurement and verifier without notes.

  • Take a second full-length timed mock and compare per-domain accuracy against the week 7 baseline.

  • Rewrite every remaining missed item as a one-line rule you can recall in under five seconds and re-test it twice.

  • Summarize all ten domains onto a single-page memory sheet that you can reproduce from blank paper.

Your checkpoint

A blank-paper reproduction of the one-page all-domain memory sheet, plus a second mock exam score at or above your week 7 baseline in every domain.

Milestones

Week 2: Can explain, without notes, how a project team proves compliance for both Air and Materials - and can name the evidence type for at least 80% of features in each.

Week 4: Score 80% or higher on the 40-question timed mixed quiz across the six technical domains, with no single domain below 70%.

Week 6: All ten domains have been studied at least once, and every domain has a written evidence table or cheat sheet you produced yourself.

Week 8: Two full-length timed mocks completed, second mock at or above the first in every domain, and the one-page memory sheet reproduced from blank paper.