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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REPORT /
Major trends impacting our activities
Major trends
impacting
our activities
Cofinimmo must adapt to the world of the future or risk seeing its buildings become
rapidly obsolete, endangering its economic sustainability.
The ageing population
The acceleration in the rate at which the population is ageing in
Western countries is impacting existing social models, with post-
ponement of the pension age, organisation of healthcare, etc.
The rapidly growing healthcare real estate sector needs to respond
to the needs of an ever-larger proportion of the population. That
means more flexible healthcare buildings according to the individu-
al’s level of autonomy combined with tailored apartments.
Population projections for the 27-state Europe: “Following
transfers between age groups, the level of dependency of
elderly people in the EU-27 is expected to be almost twice
as high, increasing from 26.2% in 2011 to 52.6% in 2060.
The total level of age-related dependency (i.e. the ratio of
young and old dependent persons as a percentage of the
population aged 15 to 64 years old) is set to climb from
49.6% in 2011 to 77.9% by 2060.” (data from October 2012,
source: Eurostat)
Climate changes
Climatic disruption (increase in the number of hurricanes, floods,
etc.) is having an impact on the sites and architecture of the
buildings of the future.
Increasing regulations in the field of energy performance as a
result of the growing awareness of climate change is driving the
construction of more efficient buildings, managed more sparingly.
“Due to our past, current and future CO
2
emissions, we are
on a path of climate change whose effects will persist
for many centuries even if CO
2
emissions cease.” Thomas
Stocker (source - Extract from an IPCC press release
dated 27.09.2013)
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