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Tenants drive demand for healthy buildings post-COVID
JULY 1, 2021

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Tenants drive demand for healthy buildings post-COVID

by Kali Persall

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthy building movement was gaining momentum. Now, as the dust settles in the wake of the public health crisis, it has become clear that this will be an enduring that presents a strong business case in a post-pandemic world.

In a video interview with IREI, Joanna Frank, president and CEO of the Center for Active Design, says investor sentiment has changed globally from viewing health as “a nice-to-have,” prior to the pandemic, to considering health a “risk” in its wake.

Citing a recent study coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the Center for Active Design and BentallGreenOak, Frank says tenants are now driving demand for healthy buildings, which is different than the healthy building movement before COVID, which was largely driven by building owners. Post-COVID, the tenant-led trend is happening around risk mitigation. Frank says building owners that are not perceived to promote

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