Building Resources for COVID-19
For employers and property managers looking for guidance on maintaining safe and sanitary workplaces, we wanted to share this exhaustive list of resources for easy reference from multiple sources. Below we’re including links to some of those resources, a brief description of who’s providing it and who it’s aimed at. All these and more resources can be found on the City of Atlanta’s Building Efficiency Resources page.
BOMA – Building Owners and Managers Association International has a large set of ‘flyer-ized’ documents – easy to post, print, or email. They’re broken into 6 topics: What You Need to Know, Getting Back to Work: Preparing Buildings for Re-Entry, a Preparedness Checklist, Operational & Management Guidelines for Industrial Properties, a Tenant FAQ, and Preparing for Emergency Evacuations.
APPA – (Whose acronym belies their focus on educational facilities) “…represents more than 18,000 educational facilities professionals from over 1,300 learning institutions worldwide. APPA’s community represents the broadest coalition of educational facilities professionals possible, ensuring a diversity of experiences and situations, and availability of best practices.” Provides reopening guidance and survey results among other resources for educational institutions and their associated services.
OSHA – The US Dept. of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has furnished a page replete with information on numerous topics and with specific guidance for a large number of industries available in both English and Spanish.
SEEA – Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance is one of 6 regional energy efficiency organizations in a national network. Their website contains thorough lists of energy utility policy effects like a list of areas where electric service suspensions are currently under moratorium, where emergency energy resources are being deployed, a table of the states’ emergency response orders and press releases, and consumer advocacy resources. Useful for any building engineers looking to maximize energy savings as offices hollow out, as well as anyone looking for the effects of policy responses nationwide.
ULI – The Urban Land Institute is a well known organization in the fields of land use and development, they’ve put forward a bevy of resources from the industry including resources on Public Health and Real Estate and an informative webinar on Considerations for Multifamily and Affordable Housing providers. Some content is restricted to members.
