Out of Eastern Europe, a Window Into the Post-Pandemic Office
A building standard pitched as making indoor spaces “immune” to the coronavirus aims to get more employees back to the office.
The building reception desk at Ericsson’s office in Bucharest, Romania, where the space is being adapted as a pilot for a new “immune” building standard.
Genesis Property
Special quarantine rooms. Floor-to-ceiling walls in bathroom stalls. Touchless entrances that take your temperature. This is what telecommunications company Ericsson’s office building in Bucharest looks like after coronavirus. The space has become the pilot for a 100-prong coronavirus standard that a real estate investor in Eastern Europe is pitching as a new global “immune” building standard.
Liviu Tudor, president of the Brussels-based European Property Federation, hopes the standard will convince more employees to go back to work. He’s gathered a team of experts in construction, health care and engineering, such as such as Adrian Streinu-Cercel, the head of Bucharest's biggest infectious diseases hospital, to develop three tiers of “immune” building certifications that he says are intended to make indoor spaces “pandemic proof.”