Investor Presentaiton
CHANGING
LIFESTYLES
25%
Share of the population aged
over 65 in Europe and
the United States by 2050.
The increasing time spent indoors and
the generalization of "work from home"
are redefining expectations for
residential buildings and leading to the
search for a better balance between
private and professional life. In addition,
requirements are increasingly stringent
in terms of health and comfort in all its
dimensions (noise, temperature, light,
aesthetics or air quality). All megatrends
affecting habitat/construction require
more modular and adaptable buildings,
in order to facilitate the change of use
of buildings during their life cycle (in
particular to switch from office use to
residential use, and vice versa). It also
involves designing buildings capable of
adapting to changing expectations,
such as the needs related to home care
for the elderly.
Globalization and the average increase
in the world's standard of living have
also resulted in a trend towards the
increased mobility of individuals.
Decarbonization requirements and the
densification of residential centers are
simultaneously leading to the
development of public transport
networks with a view to strengthening
them and making them more efficient,
increasingly energy-efficient and less
resource-intensive. With regard to
individual vehicles, the transition is now
underway towards models that emit
fewer greenhouse gases, and which are
more energy efficient and comfortable.
For Saint-Gobain, changes in lifestyles
represent both an opportunity - through
the solutions that must be provided to
meet them - and an important lever for
transforming industry, construction and
distribution in order to make them more
sustainable.
Generally speaking, the solutions
provided by Saint-Gobain to design new
buildings that consume fewer resources
and are more pleasant to live in, to
renovate all existing buildings and to
deploy more efficient and sustainable
means of transport are among the
responses to address these new
expectations.
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