Post-COVID-19 design of apartments in Echo Investment

After the spring lockdown, apartment buyers pay attention to new risks and want to be well-prepared for mobility restrictions. Echo Investment answers their needs by offering solutions that increase the level of safety and help them work from home.

The Covid-19 pandemic has verified our habits and usage of space – especially public places. After several weeks of analyzing attitudes and needs of urban dwellers, Echo Investment decided to adapt its residential projects to the new conditions. The developer’s architects are changing their residential projects in such a way as to make them safer, more comfortable and better prepared for similar threats in the future.

“The experience of the pandemic has made our clients more aware of safety issues, but we also want space users of places we create to be safe and comfortable in them. Together with designers and client advisors we analyzed  ways of using our buildings and potential risky spots. Then we developed and implemented a set of new activities and design guidelines related to safety. These are often solutions that we have paid less attention to before, and are and were simple ways to improve safety and make cleaning easier. Implementing them usually required a change in the way of thinking about designing rather than large financial or organizational outlays,” Waldemar Olbryk, Member of the Management Board of Echo Investment responsible for the residential sector, explained.

“The basic thing is hygiene. In addition to recommending systematic disinfecting, we decided to reduce the need to touch things in common areas: halls, corridors or staircases. Therefore, residents of  the Reset II residential estate in Warsaw and Stacja 3.0 in Wrocław will be able to download to their smartphones a special application that will identify them, automatically open a door for them and call a lift that will take them to their floor. We are also considering the possibility of installing lamps disinfecting common areas with UV rays, but this will depend on agreement with future residents” Olbryk added.

(WBJ)