There has been the minor comedy of my management trying to pretend that they are keeping to the same considered plan as they push any large-scale return off into the more remote future.
Existing structures, anything built since the 1960s, are awful from an epidemiological point of view. And not just offices: the high school I went to, built in the first third of the 20th Century or probably earlier, had windows in every classroom which could be opened; the new one up-river built in the 1960s was hermetically sealed and depended on centralised air conditioning.
What will happen is half-measures, which might work if handled carefully and in a multilayered way (limited people, higher barriers, somewhat better air filtration and circulation, masks all day, etc.). There will be a market demand for premises which are amenable to re-retrofitting (Commerce Court North and the original tower in Scotia Plaza come to mind), but not enough supply. This will happen because employers and landlords are worried about liability issues. But it will not really be enough.
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Date: 2020-10-06 02:41 am (UTC)Existing structures, anything built since the 1960s, are awful from an epidemiological point of view. And not just offices: the high school I went to, built in the first third of the 20th Century or probably earlier, had windows in every classroom which could be opened; the new one up-river built in the 1960s was hermetically sealed and depended on centralised air conditioning.
What will happen is half-measures, which might work if handled carefully and in a multilayered way (limited people, higher barriers, somewhat better air filtration and circulation, masks all day, etc.). There will be a market demand for premises which are amenable to re-retrofitting (Commerce Court North and the original tower in Scotia Plaza come to mind), but not enough supply. This will happen because employers and landlords are worried about liability issues. But it will not really be enough.