Property Management

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Help plan for the electrical install, as well as framing, drywall and paint. n Floor boxes. Assist tenants in re- cabling and/or increasing floor-box capacity by coordinating with tenants below. Add a pathway from the table directly to the video display location to enable packaged solutions like Zoom Rooms, Google Meet and Teams Room systems with proprietary distance-limited packaged intercon- nections. Over-floor semipermanent raceway systems are an easy way to accommodate this and can be relocat- ed by the tenant and retained by the building owner post move-out. From then on, floor boxes are an amenity of the building, kept in inventory and not discarded on tenant move-out. n Lighting. Drop-in directional lightning can improve image qual- ity on camera. Consider packaged radio-based controls, including on- wall switches. This helps to minimize infrastructure and could be retained by the building and allow integration with custom audiovisual controls if present. n Shades. Lose the miniblinds. Battery-powered roller shades can be an easy way to update a meeting room without major construction cost. These can easily be integrated into custom AV or lighting controls if present. Outside the meeting room, property owners and managers can use tech- nology amenities to entice back-to- office acceptance in 2021 and beyond, and to differentiate the property in a volatile market. For example, fix the cellular cover- age problem. Tenants and their work- force have no remaining tolerance for poor in-building service. Improving cell service also could help building owners capitalize improvement cost beyond a single tenant, as the invest- ment stays with the building when ten- ants move out. Also, workers are accustomed to increased controllability of the home office. Personal lighting controls increas- ingly will become the norm in meeting and working spaces.Taking actions like de-lamping bright overhead lights and adding task lights or personally control- lable fixtures can make a big difference to office and task workers. In addition, packaged radio-frequency controls min- imize infrastructure needed. Internet outages are more disruptive than ever, with many more meetings now including remote participants. Consider high-bandwidth point-to-point wireless instead of costly diverse physi- cal paths and terrestrial providers. To create peace of mind for a post- COVID-19 work space, consider technol- ogy that allows for the public display of carbon dioxide levels, air changes per hour, filter rating and life, potentially repurposing underutilized “green” ener- gy public displays. Finally, rethinkTV service.Tenants want to feel informed while in the building, but cable news channels can be negatively perceived. Consider a more dynamic digital signage experi- ence like headline-driven text from multiple sources alongside eye-catching video content. Property managers can deploy this across multiple properties inexpensively. Proactive property managers can be partners with their tenants in a cre- ative process to entice and facilitate the return to office. Individually, many of these ideas may be too small to scope and execute versus the value gained. Consider working with a provider that can roll up multiple items across mul- tiple disciplines – electrical, communi- cations, AV, lighting and controls. Doing so will reduce the friction to start, ease planning, reduce risk and lower the operational impact to the tenant and the building during deployment. s kevin.zolitor@encoreelectric.com Continued from Page 1 A recent study by the Henry Ford Health System shows that germi- cidal UVC light is effective for killing COVID-19 on N95 respirators. Since the threshold for COVID-19 infec- tion is estimated at only 300 virus particles, whereas an inhaled viral infection typically requires 1,950 to 3,000 virus particles, the case for air purification is even stronger. n Added value beyond the pandemic. While it’s hard to put a value on the financial contribution gained from collaboration and innovation, there are studies that demonstrate the benefits of reduced absentee- ism, sustained health and increased productivity that directly result from clean air. In the U.S., poor air quality is responsible for $150 billion of ill- ness-related costs per year. Of that, $93 billion represents lost productiv- ity from headaches, fatigue and irri- tation associated with sick building syndrome. The World Green Building Council reports that after cleaning the indoor air, employers have seen workplace productivity increase by up to 11%. Further, a Harvard study showed that with better air quality cognitive scores were 61% higher across nine functional domains, including crisis response, strategy and focused activity level. The office as we know it is under threat. Clean air is not just a weapon against COVID-19 but also a defense mechanism for commercial real estate. The value of office life is in getting people together in an open environment and reaping the ben- efits of collaboration. The answer therefore cannot be cubicles, pro- tective partitions and barriers. For Colorado’s commercial real estate to bounce back after lockdown, indoor air quality is the only solution. s fh@rensair.com Hendriksen Continued from Page 20