Commercial real estate values have always been tied to density and demand for space. Demand for premium space in Class A buildings has driven high occupancy, low turnover, high rent levels and billions of dollars of value to office buildings in New York. With Covid, that very density has transformed both the perception and reality of the appeal of returning to the office. Clearway offers building owners a unique solution for increasing the safety of their elevators while providing exciting upgrades that help owners differentiate their buildings to tenants.
Below is a graph showing CO2 levels in elevators before Clearway implementation. As you can see, prior to Clearway’s install, CO2 levels in a crowded elevator peak at nearly 1,000 ppm. After Clearway, the level of CO2 will be dramatically reduced, and attain close to outdoor air quality. With CO2 as a useful proxy for air quality, there’s no question Clearway elevators will directly address tenant perception of unhealthy air.
Clearway Air Solution can radically increase the Indoor Air Quality of commercial office buildings, beginning with the first barrier to returning – a crowded, cramped, under-ventilated elevator.
Our Clearway strategy has been deployed cost-effectively to bring filtered outdoor air into hospitals, schools, doctor’s offices, factory floors and anywhere else where indoor air quality is a crucial priority.
Today the commercial real estate industry needs to upgrade it’s ventilation delivery. Working with existing building systems Clearway will install reliable, patent pending technology in the elevator cab, whisking away exhalations and anxiety laden excuses not to return.
Clearway installs in both existing systems via retrofit, and new construction. Installation time is estimated to be less than one day so that owners do not lose use of the elevator for long. The budget will include engineering, parts, labor and materials depending on how ownership prefers to structure the project.
Getting tenants comfortably and safely back to work will have an immediate payoff.
Enclosed spaces with inadequate ventilation increase the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from inhalation of virus in the air, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)