Industry pros striving to create healthier buildings
The PAE Living Building, here under construction in April, has required substantial effort by the project team to ensure materials used meet high standards. (DJC file)
Demand for healthier space is surging amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
A recent report, “A New Investor Consensus: The Rising Demand for Healthy Buildings,” revealed that 92 percent of survey respondents (many of the world’s leading real estate investors) expect demand for healthy buildings to grow in the next three years.
Yet the next step of finding healthy and sustainable materials to construct the buildings is a tricky one.