AS the nation, together with the rest of the world, battles against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the country’s biggest organization of major stakeholders in the real-estate industry has called for “clean, safe and healthy” buildings and communities for Filipinos.
The Chamber of RealEstate & Builders’ Associations Inc. (Creba) has issued a statement, encouraging property developers, office and residential building managers, construction sites and homeowners groups to implement safety measures and clean practices to slow down, if not totally eradicate, the spread of this fatal Chinese flu.
The group suggested building administrations, especially in Metro Manila that is now under a community quarantine for 30 days, to put up disinfecting stations at the entrance and exit points of their premises, ensure utmost sanitation of all common areas including rest rooms, promote use of face masks, undertake prompt waste disposal and urge individual unit owners and offices to do the same in their own work and living spaces.
Creba said companies involved in construction and related services should provide their personnel free and ready access to protective face masks, sanitary kits, clean water and facilities, preventive medicines and healthier working conditions.
It added everyone, including the business community, must share in a collective and organized effort to protect people from all walks of life, regardless of nationality, from the Covid-19 outbreak while ensuring that business activities can proceed as usual without putting the public’s health and lives at risk.
Creba is the umbrella group of the real-estate and housing industry whose members include property developers, builders, contractors, suppliers and manufacturers of construction materials, real-estate service practitioners and other stakeholders engaged in more than 75 allied fields all over the country.