International COVID-19 Building Standard Introduced in Europe
LONDON — The world is currently facing a health pandemic that has reshaped how people, businesses, and communities operate and interact. Leading organizations are boldly questioning long-held assumptions about the way we work and the role of the workplace as we reimagine the future of a post COVID-19 era. With people spending up to 90% of their time indoors, there is an urgent need to redesign and re-engineer indoor spaces, including offices, commercial properties, institutions, and homes, to create workplaces that are productive and safe with the correct capacity to prevent the spread of pathogens and diseases.
With a strategy to engineer safer built environments for people and organizations returning to their offices, the IMMUNE Building Standard™ (IMMUNE) has been developed as a set of measures, technical solutions, and facility management practices to certify how built environments can withstand present and future health challenges and minimize the impact of a pandemic, such as COVID-19, and other bacteriological or toxicological threats.