Unlocking Commercial Property to be Safe, Healthy and Sustainable

新冠肺炎(CoronaVirus)的爆发和后续的遏制措施将对经济、企业和职场生活产生长期影响。CIPS最近对英国1000名员工进行的一项调查显示，近一半(47%)的人担心上班时喝新冠肺炎，44%的人担心以健康安全的方式重返工作岗位。此外，商业地产房东正面临着严重的问题，一些主要房东在第三季度预计只收到20%的租金。除非加强建立用户信心，否则9.6万亿美元的全球市场面临的重大风险将进一步增加。COVID-19还提供了一个实现经济复苏的机会，加速向更清洁、净零排放经济的过渡，并增强该国对气候变化影响的适应能力。英国政府承诺到2050年将碳排放量在1990年的基础上减少80%，伦敦制定了到2025年减少60%的目标。据估计，到2050年，70%的现有建筑仍将在使用中。因此，如果我们要实现这些具有挑战性的目标，减少这些物业的碳排放并改善居住者的健康/福祉是至关重要的。作为回应，可持续工作空间开发了一个创新的系统集成平台，用于改造运营中的商业物业。监控人们对工作空间的使用，控制环境，特别是空气质量，以及智能地改变和告知用户风险和性能的技术组合是最先进的。位于伦敦市中心的一个非常突出的旗舰研发项目将于2020年第四季度交付，并在2021年之前投入使用，将成为使用占有者反馈快速证明现实世界行动的试验台。该项目的世界级合作伙伴将能够在其全球商业地产活动中利用项目成果，推动商业增长。

The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and following containment measures will have a long-lasting impact on the economy, businesses and working lives. In a recent survey conducted by CIPS on 1,000 workers in the UK, almost half (47%) are concerned about catching COVID-19 at work and 44% are anxious about returning to work in a healthy and safe way. Coupled with this, commercial property landlords are facing significant issues with a number of major landlords receiving only 20% of rent expected in Q3\. Unless building user confidence strengthens, significant risks to the $9.6 trillion global market will grow further.COVID-19 also presents an opportunity to deliver an economic recovery that accelerates the transition to a cleaner, net-zero emissions economy and strengthens the country's resilience to the impacts of climate change. The Government has committed the UK to binding carbon targets to reduce emissions by 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 and London has set a goal of a 60% reduction by 2025\. It is estimated that 70% of existing buildings will still be in use in 2050\. Reducing the carbon emissions of these properties and improving the health/well-being of occupants is therefore vital if we are to meet such challenging targets.In response, Sustainable Workspaces has developed an innovative system integration platform for use in the retrofitting of operational commercial property. The combination of technologies to monitor people's use of a workspace, control of the environment particularly air quality, and intelligently change and inform users of risks and performance is cutting edge. A highly prominent flagship R&D project in central London, with delivery from Q4 2020 and live operational usage through 2021 will form the test bed to quickly evidence real world action using occupier feedback. The world class partners in the project will be able to exploit the project outcomes across their global commercial property activities, driving commercial growth.