AFTER THE ELEVATORS STOP
The recent typhoon tested more than Shanghai’s drainage system. It pushed three usually separate functions to the foreground at once: property management making safety decisions, companies deciding whether employees should report to the office, and asset operators resolving the practical problems tenants faced on site.
What truly separates one office building from another is not necessarily whether elevators are temporarily shut down, but what happens next: whether tenants know where to park, how to enter, and when normal service will resume. Even when an asset operator does not control the building’s equipment or property-management authority, it can still coordinate clearer notices, safer detours and better recovery arrangements.
This article focuses on the “last 200 metres” that are often overlooked during a typhoon.