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housing shows that is affect too many cities around the world. 1000000000 people are without affordable, secure accommodation. and yet now that more people are working from home, many office buildings line vacant. could these be converted into places to live? while many of us are now back in the office working from home is here to stay. for instance, 35 percent of us workers who can work from home still do. but vacant workspaces aren't a new problem. long before the pandemic, aging offices were already becoming less desirable because it's been in for about the last 10 years and trend the cold flight to quality. stephen painter, an architect of one of the world's biggest firms, focuses on adaptive reuse people, what we're doing, our lease is in the buildings of guidance and the new laws being built because they offer the kind of amenities to kind of locations, people, and all these and the offices aren't just a waste of space,

they mean less rent for owners, lower tax revenue and the decline of entire neighborhoods. we have beautiful buildings. we have a wonderful plaza as we have sort of all of the physical assets. we just have vacant buildings and so you don't see that vibrancy used to, you know, kind of look down these key car doors and you would see just streams of people, you know, coming down the street and you don't see that as much anymore. literally, luckily is a planner in san francisco, another city addressing high vacancy levels, almost 95 percent of our tax revenue comes from a business tax from downtown about 80 percent of our g. d. p came from from downtown companies in 2021. it is our economic engine, and so it needs to strive so the city can thrive roughly a 3rd of offices are vacant in the city. it's 3rd most expensive housing market into us. at the same time, the construction of new housing is causing

a whole different host of problems. construction accounts for 13 percent of global energy related carbon emissions within 5 times that of the ation industry in order to meet climate targets, but also other sustainability targets. we will need to actually stick with what's already built for name i had for research as urban sustainability at stock homes, royal institute of technology. even if this new production of housing and buildings is done with very energy efficient and an optimized technologies, this won't be enough. we will also need to reduce the total amount of new production. and this is what brings us to frankfurt. here an office tower built in the 19 ninety's will soon be reborn, is around 150 furnished apartments. and you mean as the developers regional european head believes it's the way forward, the data for the environmental factor is obvious. since the building show

is already standing, and i'm a show alone, usually accounts for about 50 percent of emissions during construction. it's a, a fairly significant portion of time. but it doesn't only save on emissions. re vamping and office building can be up to 30 percent. cheaper and construction can be done in half the time, but it varies. this one wasn't much cheaper than a new bill, but faster. so fed up side, i think the time factor is really critical. it allows us to start generating rental income through the property pretty quickly. re purposing an old building to serve a new function is called adaptive reuse and can extend to structures life. think of turning old factories into artist slots or warehouses into ubiquitous st food calls . for retrofitting and existing structure is a lot more complicated than planning. every thing from scratch, as developers have found out, apartments and offices part always

a $1.00 to $1.00 fit depends on when and where they were built. modern open plan offices weren't built for living in 1st you have to divide up large areas while ensuring rooms get enough sunlight and you can't just have one big bathroom for a whole for each room needs ventilation, heating and power to and for all you know, the old building is full of as best us and, and so one other thing is like i told them the surprises that i was pop up with conversion projects and push costs. and so i will say because we were pretty lucky with this project. i do some quick cutting drawings for lucky to look, stephen painter and the adaptive reuse specialist as even developed an algorithm to measure whether offices or good candidates to be reincarnated as health clinics. however, under different aspects and some of the key ones are things like the distance between the elevators and the windows. the one, your one bedroom apartments have

a nice bedroom or a window or a nice living space with a window to have it. maybe the kitchen and the bathrooms, the back. that's great. a lot of office buildings actually have way too much space between the elevators and the glazing to make that happen. so this means to end up with shiny new apartments. many conversions essentially rebuild everything except existing foundations and facades. these constraints make many offices just too much work to convert. according to painters research. roughly 30 percent of offices are ideal candidates. if you look at the us market where we're doing a lot of this look is about a 100000000 square feet of office space. and if you come by just the vacancy of about 70 percent of that you can create between 6 and 7000000 new homes. but just turning offices into apartments isn't going to be enough. neighborhoods that are just office blocks can be a bit inhospitable, crawling with finance bros. by day morphing into

a ghost towns outside of business hours, ensuring people live not just work. there could change that. like in this district of frankfurt once filled just with offices? no, it's residential. it's just that it would have been interesting to be there on a saturday afternoon. you'd be totally alone. all of the infrastructure was unnecessary. the train was still running even though it was empty. frankfurt rezoned the area turning parking lots into green spaces and kindergarten is more apartments and shops are under construction. and the end there will be $6000.00 departments here. the other, the other stuff and they leave now that the areas lively or the offices that actually become more attractive. so it's easier to rent them out. he's the 1st to have meetings his best on the canadian city of calgary, which started working with painter to revitalize its downtown in 2021 is a case in point calorie had about 38 percent pregnancy in their office market and i was assigned one of the listing well and

a very quickly actually for our program together, which gives you $75000.00 square foot to combine the building and move forward with the red tape out of the way to make these projects move more quickly. the 1st 5 projects and now the construction represents about 750 new homes. then they have 10 more. pretty much of this housing will be affordable and built with families in mind. however, adaptive reuse often has even more red tapes and new builds. painter says that will have to change the turns around as an example. as a rule in the downtown you can offer to your office space. it's protected as appointment, but that was created in the seventy's and they just never got it because it, there was no need to change it on out as a desperate need to change it. it's kind of holding up. these parties happening, such arbitrary regulations are quite common and approval for conversions often takes as long as it would for a new build,

even though the structures already in place. according to recent studies, cities all over the map have lots of office space that they can potentially convert frank, forget it with careful city planning. and the more that's learned, complimenting such projects, the greater the savings. many property developers have already expressed an interest series like san francisco in calgary. already support is very promising approach. the rugby is a huge deal in south africa, the national team, the spring books, have a record full well comp titles to the names. when they defended that title during the last tournament, rugby mania swept across the country. but this now unifying force was once a symbol of decision to

fire up please head of the match. then the team from hudson public school in east london sent out onto the page rep b is south africa's national sports. depends on really enthusiastic the drug is basically the football. what, what is, do you guys we live in b, the rugby, most of the stuff and talk about it. school is about read and we're very passionate about it. spilled history and planning on go go, is researching the history of rugby in particular black rugby. because up to now, a white perspective has dominated the narrative, warranties, who may, 9th, the story, thing, the human face stage, the voice bring the voice and completes that like the story is this kind of issue.

let me see. yeah. the things they picked a good mix this, i'm inclined they enjoyed this fact and, and the total case today and other places here apartheid the racial segregation policy of past white racist governments seems to have been overcome in 1984 during the a post side era rugby looked like this, like plays and spaces like people with some v to doubt by the media. and yet rugby has loomed being a black game to. for example, in graham's town, the black rugby club winter rose was set out here right by this church in 18. 87. it was one of the very fast. yet very few people are aware of this historic sites. so planning on go go. it's an important part of black rugby history. the clubs played what was a white sport here on this field?

dispose of the people who had stolen midland. the history says what tells us that the applicant, people sort of like the fist played by the, the so just the european searches and but clearly from the united kingdom. but they did not teach them, but they were just watching for the given to actually taught them with the mission that was from scotland. and then this question, they played a huge role actually not just teaching them, even coaching them as well. that was the beginning of black rugby clubs, dosage springing up right across the cape. but because of the races, nature versus colonial rule, black players had to play amongst themselves. the, i'm a total, a museum in williams town in the eastern cape is one of south africa's most important archives in terms of rugby history. for the sports historian, it's a treasure truth, whether it's 19th and 20th century newspapers. there are also documents that shed

lights on the non white rugby tradition. a lindsey some of the really interesting to body stuff in sports association that was not only focusing on rugby, you bought a lazy sion of rugby, but on sports with little success. rugby became increasingly politicized under apartheid. that was a white leak and a black one. and they never competed against one another. belonging on go, go is meeting 10, the oldest. he was badly injured during a match and has been a paraplegic ever since then book. he played rugby in the 1970s at the height of a pause. hide from a rugby place tells noon, go go about the building like a facilities say this is the future. good. pick on the go across the country. okay. so it was easy to get in, get charged deliberate,

high the but then i put aide coverage. okay. to insure that to the main where we are the white scores, where like the stats is is there much more developed in terms of c, a c t's paid guns. and under the sees it was only when nelson mandela became president, the deposit lied was abolished in rugby to he sold the game as a way of bringing the country together and presented the jersey to the mix. south african national team. when it, when the rugby world cup in 1995 planning on go go, goes to visit emani, what you one a who lives in a small village for the 16 year old. a pos, hide is a far off era. he would like to make

a career and rugby and to study little so emani the split could help him achieve a better future. he has the potential, but it's still a dream because very few black players managed to make it into the premier division . most of the big rugby stalls, all white 1000000 a. by the way, evan rose place on the flank is completely different to anyone else in india is missing. okay, that's another i don't want to play like the others and bothers that is, i want to play like evan rose. training conditions are also better at schools and clubs when most players all want that to is the reality of black rugby put emani was the one a has been supported by a talent scouts and invited to a tournament in johannesburg. the,

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wanting to share knowledge with try to touch middle is of to model has made us to what we host now it's quite fun school. the 1st one and the goal is to strict each then agriculture. so that 50 years from now and there's so much change in climate if you don't have to deal with learning to skip the whole over the us create a curriculum, bring it into schools and it's definitely started with the right intention. the, so the house on what sources of we mean off i'm in and something that's i find very unique to the city as

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