In every thread where someone suggests that office towers should be converted to residential in order to increase housing availability and cut on carbon emissions from commuting, there’s a counter that this conversion is all but impossibleimpractical. And yet.
In every thread where someone suggests that office towers should be converted to residential in order to increase housing availability and cut on carbon emissions from commuting, there’s a counter that this conversion is all but
impossibleimpractical. And yet.Nobody with any idea what they’re talking about said it was impossible.
It’s just expensive and time consuming to do.
The conversions I’ve been affected by took longer than building a new structure of similar size.
You basically need to completely redo the plumbing. At that point, it’s often cheaper to just bulldoze it and rebuild.
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