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title: Case Study | Retrofitting Buildings with Social Distancing in Mind
description: Retrofitting buildings for COVID safety is easy. Our COVID Occupancy Assessment tool helps you redesign an office layout to maintain social distancing.
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Case Study

## COVID Ready Office Design: Retrofitting Buildings With Social Distancing in Mind

### Modifying Office Layout to Maintain Social Distancing

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As businesses reopen during the pandemic, retrofitting buildings as well as outdoor environments to limit the exposure of COVID-19 will be critical. To help architects and engineers address this challenge, cove.tool has developed a new grid-based analysis method that provides a quantitative metric for evaluating floorplan layouts, called COVID Occupancy Assessment Score (COAS).

In this case study, we demonstrate how we used the COVID occupancy assessment tool to plan our office redesign. The tool helped us evaluate three different layouts to achieve the safest furniture arrangement and occupancy rate that could maintain a safe distance between employees. 

Fill out the form on the right to download the full case study and find out how to ensure your next office design project is COVID ready!

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