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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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 ~~impossible~~impractical. And yet.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

You basically need to completely redo the plumbing. At that point, it's often cheaper to just bulldoze it and rebuild.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago
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