this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
43 points (97.8% liked)

Canada

7280 readers
137 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


πŸ—ΊοΈ Provinces / Territories


πŸ™οΈ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


πŸ’ SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


πŸ’» Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


πŸ’΅ Finance, Shopping, Sales


πŸ—£οΈ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago