Real estate investors expect demand for healthy buildings to grow in the next three years, a
compelling signal and just one of many findings captured in A New Investor Consensus:
The Rising Demand for Healthy Buildings—the largest health and wellness study of
global real estate investment managers ever conducted.
Coordinated by BentallGreenOak (BGO), the United Nations Environment Programme
Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the Center for Active Design (CfAD), the study defines
healthy buildings as those optimized for occupant health and safety through a mix of siting,
design and operational strategies that measurably improve physical, social and mental
health indicators.
The report reveals how COVID-19 has elevated the importance of health in investment
decision-making and how respondents intend to enhance their wellness-related asset
management strategies in the coming year. It also outlines three major recommendations
for how the sector might better incorporate health and wellness initiatives into its ESG
strategies.