If our walls could talk, they would be asking us what the hell is going on. Healthcare buildings have gone into overdrive, hotels are being converted into hospitals, fashion-houses transformed into high-volume PPE factories, auto-manufacturing into ventilator-production, and everyone is at home while an unprecedented amount of our commercial real estate sits empty. We were not prepared for this pandemic but we are showing incredible innovation to adapt to these challenges. As we move from emergency to new reality, and on to recovery, our buildings are becoming a bigger and bigger part of the solution. This is a biological war with our health workers on the frontline. Like those hospital staff, the crisis is also pushing hospital building systems beyond their limits. Like those doctors and nurses, it is essential to ensure that building systems are working optimally and the risk of failure is reduced as much as possible. A faulty HVAC system could make […]