Enertiv, a commercial real estate technology company, hasanalyzed maintenance expense data from office and multi familyhousing units to show the cost of the coronavirus shutdown.
New York City is a perfect model because it was the originalepicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. After acomplete lockdown, the city is now reopening. But the impact onbuilding maintenance costs may come as a surprise, according to areport on the data published on the firm website.
For offices, heating ventilation and air conditioning costsdropped off slightly during the period of low occupancy. But thatwas marginal because operators could not simply shut downventilation in the building; the systems still needed to run, andthe building needed to be flushed routinely to make it viable forreopening, the report said.
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