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The bigger problem is likely water - both use and removal. Most offices will have a couple bathrooms per floor and a kitchen. Those are used frequently 9-5 but
by caseysoftware 3y ago
The bigger problem is likely water - both use and removal.
Most offices will have a couple bathrooms per floor and a kitchen. Those are used frequently 9-5 but rarely on nights and weekends and there's no heavy usage like showers or clothes washing.
If you build 100+ apartments, you need to either build 100+ bathrooms and kitchens (expensive!) or do it dorm style with common spaces plus private bedrooms. That brings it down to a smaller number but still probably 5:1 for 20+. That's just on the consumption side.
And the entire infrastructure - both inflows and outflows - are probably not sized to handle that change in usage.
It's definitely not impossible but the conversion costs are massive.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoNot just water, also concerns over things like power and fire; anywhere people sleep has extra rules. Weight requirements also become non-trivial; offices are often comparatively sparse -- cube, monitors, chair -- compared to homes, which have way more stuff. A kitchen in every apartment, oven, fridge, bed, dressers, tv, couches, etc. Electrical demand may or may not be higher, too.