Five questions building engineers will be asking after COVID-19

摘要

There are so many unanswered questions we are sorting through during this pandemic. The big one for me is: What will be the new normal in the post-COV-ID-19 world and to what extent will the way we interact with the built environment change? Unfortunately, this is a question that can't be answered precisely right now and that is really tough for me as a practical, fact-based, to-the-point engineer. However, I have started to think about how my personal perspectives will change - how the pandemic has affected me, my family and my clients - and how I will approach my work differently moving forward. This is the longest stretch in years I have not been traveling, which has given me more time to think about what the future holds. So I spent some time creating answers to many of the questions I've been pondering and have shared them below. Hopefully, one of these questions will spark an idea or perspective for you as well because we all need each other if we are to come out of this stronger, together.