COVID-19  

BOMA International recently released its Getting Back to Work: Preparing Buildings for Re-Entry Amid COVID-19 report to offer guidance to building owners for preparing commercial properties for the safe return of office tenants, building personnel, visitors, vendors, and contractors. The report identifies planning, operational, and safety procedures as well as protocols that should be implemented, updated, or enhanced for the post-COVID-19 world. The guidance document provides a framework for phased development of individual property or portfolio plans.

The Office of the Interagency Security Committee recently led the development of Critical Infrastructure Operations Centers and Control Rooms Guide for Pandemic Response on behalf of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). This document, geared toward all 16 critical infrastructure sectors, provides considerations and mitigation measures for operations centers and control rooms, but can be applied further to any critical node that is required to continue functioning in a pandemic environment.