The factory and headquarters achieved the label IMMUNE™ – Strong following the company’s successful implementation of the health and safety set of measures for its employees.
IMMUNE™ is a global open-source standard to certify built environment’s level of immunity to withstand present and future health challenges and minimize the impact of a pandemic such as COVID-19 and other bacteriological or toxicological threats. It was pioneered in April 2020 by Liviu Tudor, president of the European Property Federation and founder of Genesis Property.
The certification marks the Healthy by Design Building Institute’s first major milestone in expanding the standard beyond office buildings, in other real estate sectors that have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We are pleased to announce the world’s first IMMUNE™ factory standing as proof for the flexibility and versatility of this truly global standard. In the current economy, still facing the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, there are companies like FUTURE Designs that are laying out a coherent path to recovery, while demonstrating a ground-breaking approach and great leadership in protecting people’s health and well-being,” said Tudor.
In the past few months, FUTURE Designs has applied many measures to meet the 120+ IMMUNE™ criteria recommended for safer environments and has achieved the Strong label for its factory and headquarters. The certification is based on the IMMUNE™ assessment process conducted by Build Green, an independent authorized building assessor and a contributor to the development of the standard.
“At FUTURE Designs, we have spent hundreds of hours and great resource investigating the most effective and efficient means to ensure our premises are sanitized to bat away the coronavirus. Our sole goal was to make our place of work the safest possible for all team members and to give them confidence and peace of mind during these extraordinary times. Proof of our success is that to date we have had zero Covid-19 cases within our factory and assembly facilities,” said David Clements, Chief Executive la FUTURE Designs.
The IMMUNE™ standard is inspired by technologies and procedures developed and successfully applied in hospitals and medical clinics.
Among measures recommended are very efficient air filtering systems and technologies to enhance the sanitizing of surfaces. Other important measures are a Quarantine Room acting as a dedicated area in case of immediate need to isolate people at risk and a rapid logistic system for immediate pandemic-response.