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This seems very unintuitive to me, what is the reasoning behind this?

• runarberg 3y ago
  I’m not an architect nor a civil engineer so perhaps I’ve got this completely wrong, but I think it has something to do with both the amount of concrete required, which has a huge climate footprint, as well as the logistics around pluming, cooling, heating, vertical escalation, emergency response, etc. become increasingly difficult as you add more stories. At some point these difficulties add up to make it worse than a 5-8 story mid-rise.