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## [Critical Strategies for Safely Reopening Buildings after COVID](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/strategies-for-reopening-buildings-after-covid)

** Tue, Feb 02, 2021 @ 09:12 / by [Jim Newman](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/author/jim-newman) posted in [HVAC](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/hvac), [Codes & Standards](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/codes-standards), [ASHRAE](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/ashrae), [indoor air quality](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/indoor-air-quality), [EPA](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/epa), [coronavirus](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/coronavirus), [COVID-19](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/covid-19), [water quality](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/water-quality)

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With entire buildings, and even campuses, being shuttered for months on end, you can’t simply reopen a closed building and assume it will be business as usual. In reopening closed buildings during – or after – the pandemic, how building owners and maintenance staff manage the essential building functions of indoor air quality and potable water can have an enormous impact on the health and safety of tenants and visitors.

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