Following school closures due to COVID-19, schools need to reopen with safer designs in mind to protect students and help them attain an education According to UNESCO figures, 94% of the world’s student population — almost 1.6 billion learners — were impacted by school and university closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Until today, more than 800

The IMMUNE Building Standard™, developed to attenuate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, continues to extend its global reach that started in 2020. After offices, industrial and residential assets, the certification launched at the initiative of Genesis Property, a leading member of the European Property Federation, now also covers educational institutions buildings. St. Catherine’s British School,

2021 highlighted inequalities in people’s wellbeing and in their ability to manage the pandemic challenges. While the concept of wellbeing has always been on the employers’ agenda, its true value is emerging this year, as companies are focusing more and more on expanding benefits and support for their teams, upon their return to the office.

In our pre-pandemic world, not only were companies investing huge sums in ever more expansive and elaborate workplaces, but cities were falling over themselves to offer various incentives to locate those buildings within their boundaries. A new standard Liviu Tudor, the President of the European Property Federation in Brussels, aims to go one step further

“With people spending up to 90% of their time indoors, there’s an urgent need to re-engineer indoor spaces to create workplaces that are productive and safe,” said Liviu Tudor, founder of Genesis Property, who is advising banks including Societe Generale (OTCBB: SOGN) on “immunising” their offices.

“We developed Immune to ensure that people and organisations, when returning to their offices, are provided with a building capable of withstanding present and future challenges, whether generated by a pandemic or any bacteriological or toxicological threat,” said Liviu Tudor.