In an environment invaded by hybrid work structures and compliance with commitments to lower energy consumption, real estate is going through new transformation criteria.

Although the reconversion process has been a solution in some corporate buildings, which today operate as housing spaces, the inertia goes further.

In the diversification, imminent for markets such as the corporate one that currently registers an unemployment rate of 24.5% in Mexico City (CDMX), space planning models are included that allow them to be flexible over time and use elements from certain areas. that today operate with a different use.

“There is potential in spaces below office towers such as the subway where public transport and markets already operate in some cities around the world. It is part of the war against the car”, suggests Víctor Legorreta, from Legorreta Arquitectos.

Another materialized dynamic is the trend that currently exists in the United States, where the growing demand for spaces for medical care for outpatients and life sciences laboratories, generated the reconversion of unoccupied or underused properties to be transformed into health and science facilities. last generation.

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"It's about adaptive reuse for labs and research spaces, from retail and office spaces," suggests architecture firm Gensler.

However, as has happened with conversions from offices to housing in CDMX, there are considerations such as the dynamics of hours, sanitization and especially the value at which each m2 is assessed, given that many of the buildings are currently located in well-located submarkets, but with prime costs.

Faced with a scenario of oversupply that currently exists in corridors such as Interlomas, Lomas Altas, and the North and Santa Fe submarkets, analysts consider that reconversion is an alternative while the recovery process arrives at pre-pandemic absorption levels, which amounted to 400 thousand m2 per year.

Given the current context and the bets on sustainable corporate developments, the market began a process of profound transformation, based not only on responsibility towards the environment.

This phenomenon also occurs in markets such as the industrial one, where the evolution of zero carbon emissions criteria in the corporate segment is a trend that accelerated its incorporation.

Ulises Treviño, general director of Bioconstruction and Alternative Energy (BEA), says that after the pandemic the certification payout grew, with new parameters that are added to the current LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), WELL and EDGE (Excelence in Deisgn for Greater Efficiencies).

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“Now we are in a higher language, a more demanding language and it is the issue of decarbonization. That is where we started with the objectives of zero energy buildings, zero waste buildings, zero water, which become practically autonomous in their operation and use eco-technologies, they are capable of being practically self-sufficient in energy and water resources or even more”, details Treviño.

This is a growing movement in Mexico where the objective is a clear goal towards 2030 where there are buildings that operate zero carbon in terms of their operation because "large organizations such as the World Green Building Council, are setting us a goal that at By 2050 all built stock, new and existing buildings must operate carbon zero,” he said.

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