WELL AP study plan
WELL AP · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.