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Workplace Wellness

We believe in creating a campus that supports a healthy environment and healthy employees. We work to facilitate collaboration, wellness and creative thinking through a combination of design and sustainable practices.

One way we put our sustainability beliefs into action is as a sponsor of the U.S. Green Building Council: Northern California Building Health Initiative. We collaborated with other companies that are also at the forefront of green and healthy buildings and worked to implement best practices.

Since 2015, we have expanded from two flagship buildings, B35 and B34, and started to implement our healthy building initiatives across campus through both WELL and Fitwel certifications for new buildings and renovation projects

Building 35

Building 35 (B35) is a vibrant workspace for our employees and has earned LEED Gold Certification, which recognizes best-in-class green building practices. B34 contributes to employee wellbeing with services that include a health center, ergonomics lab and fitness center.

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For Our People

Outdoor views and natural light help people feel energized and motivated while they work.
For Our People

Neighborhood work spaces give employees a place to collaborate comfortably, which aims to foster higher satisfaction and higher quality of work.
For The Environment

B35 has LEED Gold certification and uses 76 percent less energy per person compared to similar buildings on campus.
For The Environment

B35 consumes 60 percent less electricity and 71 percent less fuel than the national standard for similarly sized buildings.

Building 34

Building 34 (B34), our campus community center, was designed with four key pillars in mind — wellbeing, sustainability, community, and innovation. In addition to LEED certification, B34 also achieved WELL certification, the first building standard to focus on health, productivity and wellness of the people in the buildings.

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For Our People

Employees can open windows manually for fresh air and good ventilation and it’s filled with natural light from a large central atrium that brings the outdoors in.
For Our People

The building also encourages employees to get up and move throughout the day, and features a large central staircase that connects the atrium to the building’s services.
For Our People

A roof garden provides a space for employees to enjoy fresh air.
For The Environment

Filtered water is available throughout the building to encourage employees to save water by using reusable water bottles.
For The Environment

The building is equipped with a grey water reuse system that will treat and reuse water for toilet flushing and landscape areas, reducing Genentech’s overall water use.

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Workplace Wellness

Building 35

For Our People

For Our People

For The Environment

For The Environment

Building 34

For Our People

For Our People

For Our People

For The Environment

For The Environment

FLEXLAB and the Future of Energy Efficiency

Building Health

Building for Science