Mr. Simon Jones:

All new buildings come under regulations. We have started to introduce terminology within regulations around matters such as capacity, recognising that it is not okay to just meet minimum requirements for ventilation and that there needs to be some flexibility inherent within buildings. That is very welcome. Regulators in the UK are currently revising their ventilation regulations. They have looked at them again in light of Covid. We have had a commitment from building standards authorities in Ireland that, in the next revision, they will be cognisant of disease control in regulations for buildings. The thing to be aware of when talking about regulations is that we are typically talking about flow rate, which is the amount of air moving in buildings. There is sometimes quite a difference from what we would call background ventilation, to maintain reasonable levels of general air quality, and the volumes of air that we are looking to move to limit risks of infection. We need to be in a space where our buildings are capable of doing both.