These are the questions on the minds of many people and industries worldwide. The construction and real-estate industries are also facing the challenge of keeping up with developments and driving them forward. With five years of experience and expertise, the Drees & Sommer Innovation Center monitors general technology trends and future scenarios to derive hypotheses and new business models for the construction and real-estate industries. Since change is the only constant, the future hypotheses that were published for the first time in 2021 were then updated in 2023. 

The primary goal of Drees & Sommer is to create a sustainable future that is "enkelfähig" (socially and ecologically responsible and sustainable). Beneficial Business forms the basis for innovation and our ten hypotheses for the future. The success of Beneficial Companies is not achieved through harmful interactions with the environment, but instead requires working with the environment and benefiting it. These entities are profitable because they are beneficial, not in spite of it. Digital, climate-positive and socially committed: these aspects therefore form the basis for the hypotheses for the future of the construction and real-estate industry. 

Find out which developments will be coming up in the decade ahead of us, and how we will achieve our goal with use of new technologies and trends, as well as innovative partnerships and collaborations: