to this skeptical rules fail billions to be made out to talk commentary deep sea greed thoughts, june 7th on dw, the, the buildings and construction sex doors. is this possible for a staggering 37 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions? how do i come? i'm sorry because the body and you're watching equally and do the construction check. those entities waste causes app and you should and also contaminates what though it's z all the homes out environment, but there are ways to make the sex though more sustainable. so let's look at some ideas to build green in just mountain states, a mazda for this has some of the countries, most scenic use patients. but as you drive up these mountains,

we need to wear them off on many of the roads because of the heavy construction dust. you do reward and residential or develop heavy construction laws within 2 weeks, these mountains and because of, for drilling and sand lining, lance lights have become a big issue here. indigenous methods of construction could be a way out of this. flat ground for building homes isn't easy to find here and how much of a dish and yet settlements start the mountains all the way up to and on to do to a full 1000 meters in the to this down of not good would work a whole but i'm talk about it is what we're seeing, the construction of a home, but locally source materials, i think i'm looking up and the methods to build it by the same as those you buy generations before him. i don't let it go to measure length though does isn't, it will make next then was it was one of the 8 of the continent layers. you'll see the one in the looking would be certainly going to give us give last month and talk

with the sleep 1st and will by the committee, can try to have the gaps between these layers. go back to the table to do that to help traditional houses with instructors use a lot other than other natural materials. tired to divide, it may take a photo, but it's a mac the other day. rather then from his editors, he learned his skills at the local architecture studio, not it's committed to developing traditional building methods and indigenous craftsmanship. methods such as got connie and do divided into into modeling techniques that rely solely on locally available stone would and play in this a quick preowned region. they have stood the test of time to have a phase. i don't want to buy some of the car. 20 houses here, a 3 to 400 us liquid with the the because of the flexibility of the wood. we're fear the even of these houses the, there's no cause for concern around said ethic that. but in addition to natural materials allow the buildings to be here because of the success, making them comfortable in all season, most of the,

the body it at the me see that the on the buildings that are immediate draw for tutors are examples of got 40 and due to body architecture, but there will be extends beyond this that is not found out who the pollution believes the resilience of these techniques makes them ideal for the fragile legal system of things his and should be used for all new construction is due for like when we start a new project, we have to look at the land, the site, how the sun and wind patterns are the site. and we have to analyze the slopes to cut the dentist is according to the slope i get off so that ultimately the building looks like it's going out of the mountain buildings and or rather than just the bottle propped on top of it. other than, like, uh, like i'm getting this right beforehand is a large part of the effort by the agent's pre modern headed to maybe a big buddhist strong. most new stuff chose here. i mean from concrete over time,

be good developments have taken over the steep mountain slopes. a risk says local historian on't on the honda. he lives in books in the state capital shimla. we've just seen some of the worst effects of unchecked construction party is back. the from the into of a chief off indian army. you can stay here and there, divide that because it's not on buildings, but no, the only big complex total. so if you happen to so that the whole ship on both of as it is edit, the discover the inspector and the engineering college conducted far the thought of a 100 said it is not to be able for adults stopped us. but no 11 is literally stuck to the in that area vendor to really think what we're doing and think it's good. like many of the homes destroyed in the city of floods that hit the region in

2023. even those bits that the strongest reinforced concrete and steel collapse like a house of god. 71, people lost their lives and many more, well, enjoy the and yet the region is open. eyes in, quicker than ever. the building boom is putting unprecedented pressure on its hits . the natural angle over the force of these hands is not more than $45.00 degrees. that's the highest one shall go back to davy, a building on slopes which are considerably shopper we're going, i'd structure to 70 or 8 people, certain things we're going with heavy exclamation you're going in with heavy retaining was in the absence. all 4 solid struct. all we are going to have from back in now. good. many of the oldest structures survived the floods without

significant damage of the this has generated a lot of interest in the not collect is use of traditional building, which is fun. used up to be the handling of cycles but deals and improve sustainability and reduce costs like as of the name of it, never be. we begin every project. by searching for a gleam would mean our storms from old houses at finding late and even more logs that can be the use of the store to take. we've had to have what i know. john was going to use good thing. if there's nothing on site or story because we ask around in nearby towns and villages in so much the guy is key. how many the clinton, what do you use going to by working with the game? what do you do then? knowledge also requires a lot of skin ending the like skin to you've been working with them or do you need of the knots, collective runs training workshops and collaborates with over a 100 local designs like cobra, tuckered ensuring their skills opposite fiscal gas. i believe that's

a good thing. i remember when the, if we made a beat and so it will just be over the last future generations. we'll see the advantages and continue to keep the skills. well, i mean, this is the only way to go if you want to see it, how much of the data for data the designs, hope that by promoting this holistic approach this dining mountain town can inspire the whole him island region to build more responsibly by embracing the benefits of its architectural headed, which is to be changed, the materials that we use to construct our homes and swap them with something more sustainable. will that make a big difference? let me take you 2500 kilometers down south to the state of somebody loud. where going back to a more natural material to construct the 6 is turning off, not just to be really great with the in line with. but there's also keeping homes pleasantly cool in the summer's. ready a traditional indian construction combined with modern design in by the right in southern them and not all the

architect garth again has been building sustainable houses with metrics for 15 years. and then when the new baby to my house, martin is the main ideas. my brakes are made of nothing but money and eat both and just apply that. in the past we used to use naturalist. they play this like new to decline in the sources and we now add a bit of light and see meant but 92 percent is mike. the day it was in the 92 black and the live on the mixture is been compressed into vix with the machine. the advantage of this process is that instead of drying its height and pictures in an oven, they can dry naturally over a pdf. those 7 weeks, this really uses the carbon emissions of the manufacturing process in india, more than half of the population, small items made of money. ready ready but these have generally be mainly lowered

income household. now, however, the classes i've read is covering the benefits of mark as the building materials. not nice because it's so sustainable. and also because my houses have excellent installation property. and i'm us, i'm unable and doing this. i'm on the inside, so the house is a stay cool. then doing winter, then nice and well, that's the advantage of a mad house go to them and we do offer that advantage is that the costs of building a mad house that's competitive. you know, it's a natural and abundant trauma, tedium, and times for the good in the climate months houses, electricity costs can be applied to codes or so it's a traditional building practice that helps gonzalez, resources building from scratch is not something that we always need to, especially in densely populated cities where that can be more creative solutions to create more living space, republishing existing buildings could be one such way. if you live in a city,

there's a pretty good chance or living through a housing crisis. rent in the major cities are skyrocketing, and this is happening all around the world. at the same time of housing has grown scarce. some buildings stand empty. downtown frank, for it looks like just about any other big city central business. plastic leaving high rises to hide in alarm. in fact, nearly 10 percent of the city is offices. are facing other major cities around the globe have, do, you can see rates that high or even higher. so why don't we just convert empty offices into housing for people worldwide? well, many of us are 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. and plenty only come into

the office on occasion. but if they can, workspaces are into a new problem. long before the pandemic eating officers were already becoming less desirable. it hasn't been for about the last 10 years and trend. so before the flight to quality. stephen painter, in architect that one of the world's biggest firms, focuses on adaptive reuse. people when you're in a lease is an older buildings going into the new laws that will be built because they also have the kind of amenities to kind of locations, people. and all these empty officers are in just a waste of space. they mean less rent for owners, lower tax revenue for cities 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 along the

leaves of planner in san francisco, another studio dressing high vacancies almost 95 percent of our tax revenue comes from 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 one 3rd of offices are vacant in san francisco. the 3rd most expensive housing market in the us. at the same time, the ongoing construction of new housing is causing a whole different host of problems in order to meet climate targets, but also other sustainability targets. we will need to actually stick with what's already built hardware researches 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. i checked out an ongoing conversion project. an office tower built in the 90s will soon be reborn, is around $150.00 furnished apartments. then you mean all brush the developers regional european head is excited about adaptive reuse? the data for the environmental factors 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 the time, but it doesn't only save on emissions. revamping and office building can be up to 30 percent cheaper and construction can be done in half the time. that depends on the project. this one wasn't much cheaper than a new build, but speed play the big part of the offensive side for i think the time factor is really critical. yeah,

it allows us to start generating rental income through the property pretty quickly . a re purposing an old building, disturbing new function. it's called adaptive reuse, and can extend to structures life. think of turning old factories into artist slots or warehouses into ubiquitous street food halls. retrofitting and existing structure is a lot more complicated than planning everything from scratch. as developers have found out, apartments and officers aren't always a $1.00 to $1.00 fit. it depends on when in where they were built. modern open plan offices were built for living. and 1st you must divide up large areas while ensuring rooms get enough sunlight. and you can't just have one big bathroom for a whole floor. each room needs a ventilation seating and power to stephen painter. the adaptive reuse specialist. as you've been developed, an algorithm to measure whether offices are good candidates to be reincarnated as housing clinics around the different aspects. and some of the key ones are things

like the distance between the elevators and the windows. you want your one bedroom apartments, have a nice bedroom or a window or a nice living space with a window and then 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. this means to end up with shiny new apartments. many conversions essentially rebuild everything except the existing foundations. and besides 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 longer slack is about 100000000 square feet of office space. and if you come by just the vacancy on 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 box can be a bit inhospitable calling with finance barrows by day or thing. it goes to towns outside of business hours, insurance people live, not just work. there could change that this neighborhood of frankfort, mito god, which developed as a strong set of offices in the sixties and seventies. given the wild be creative nickname of the people stop for office city, foot by the mid to thousands, nearly one and 3 of the offices were sitting in in 2006. the city began converting the mt office powers into housing creating through mixed use development. now it's still good places to live shop and go to school instead of just places to work. frankfurt result in the area in turn, parking lots and the green spaces in kindergarten. it brought in developers to build apartments and shots when they're done, they'll be $6000.00 apartments here. there's other stuff and they leave now that the areas livelier offices that actually become more attractive. so it's easier to

rent them out. people the 1st to have meetings, especially the canadian city of calgary, started working with painter to revitalize its downtown in 2021. the calorie had about 5 to 8 percent vacancy in their office market. and i was of the time one of the worst. and the last, i think very quickly actually for our program together, which gives you $75000.00 square foot to combine the building and moved on with the red tape out of the way to make these projects move more quickly. the 1st 5 projects and now under construction, represents about $750.00 new homes. and they have 10 more approved. peter says much of this housing will be affordable and built with families in mind . thanks to the financial incentives provided by the city. a doctor for use often has even more red tape the new builds, but we'll have to change it for going to use this potential to curve emissions. so in terms of where i am as an example, there's a role in the downtown that you cannot bring to your office space is protected as

employment months that was created in the seventy's and then just never got it because it, there was no need to change it on now there's a desperate need to change and that's kind of holding up, which part is 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 structure is already in place. since that are 1st office conversion, projects have gone well, then you mean all rest thinks this firm will focus more on adaptive for years. many developers have shown interest in these projects and cities like san francisco are supporting office conversions. the kind of support offered may determine the type of housing we get. flipping offices into housing is clearly no quick fix and it's not going to solve the global housing crisis overnight. footprint per in calgary, do show it can make cities vastly more livable and it can drastically reduce the environmental impact of relying solely on new bill.

let's head to the northeastern state. definitely carlo where people are taking them, building with nature to a whole new level. when i say bridges, what comes to mind the golden gate bridge in california or the dollar bridge in london? well, i'm talking about something completely different. have you ever seen a bridge made with at 2 or 3 year olds, living, breathing bridges. the people of these hills have countless names for rain. no wonderful. this is the which is really is spots on planet of the monsoon. takes on many forms in the healey state of mean calling in north eastern india. what stops is gentle streams and ends as raging rivers makes life for the 40000 people that live in this region is really difficult. the

coffee table community here, mostly farmers, and the rivers that phone every year got the homes all from the farms market. with the community here has found a really unique way to survive and thrive to a system of living route bridges the and how much can i can find when the site and i'm gonna put that in one per 2nd on keep dial, dial pad one. how about that, and i am proud to have built these bridges and leave this legacy for generations to come. now the heat, the lie, and i hope the one to come that's even better understand what we have done won't come, let us yet. it is especially with new technology and better understanding of the science. a lot of these route bridges can last 100 years because they sit higher and they do not grow like yeah, wow. so but to come is a follow from a village named molly. know,

he started learning to build these root bridges at around 11 years old, and is still using his skills 3 decades later. people from his village are building a new one decision to health, especially women get access to the market, which helps the local economy. because if it is a special and famous because unlike modern bridge is the unlike. busy the construction material is mainly word to that comes from trees that are still living . and usually even more trees applauded to keep them standing, which helps bio diversity here. how they work in the areas who took the epi fi tree, a lead into the trunk of an array cabinetry, where young roots can grow. that most scaffolding gives us both the roots and the villages supports rubble of finger boots, which have the special ability to fuse and grow as one i used by the local people to guide the bridge across through the body. it's an epic undertaking.

bridges can be over 50 me doesn't length and can have multiple dicks. a single bridge can carry up to 50 people at a time. norris didn't song is also a farmer from this region. and today he's having a day out with his son, teaching him what he was taught his sons. nothing. does that no, no, i'm not any. i learned how to been rude. bridges from the age of 15 by my grandfather activity. it is important to present these road. i just thought i'd like to be. we must be each of our children so that the knowledge can be passed down from generation to generation. so that even when i am gone, these judges can this still be used by my granted law and i'm m. so when i'm driving, yeah. can we start here? it can be, it actually takes 2 or even 3 decades for a living bridge to become usable. so children walking on a bridge to day doing it to support members of the community, even a few 100 years from now. and they return home on

a bridge that the ancestors who and they may have never met, built for them. you know, the god is a social, a just who works with the communities here to preserve the knowledge and skills then they've been with this. this has to be to fix that. because we, we've seen the influence of our full flood us who has thought of how we use then that you love the soul says without the throwing the mother up. her belief is that these bridges are the best symbols of the culture of the region and represented the relationship between indigenous communities and the equal system. and they help in other ways to in the living room. this hospital, a lot of employment opportunities for the people in the soap, the an employment problem and also has increased the income in the thing of the

people in those villages, especially with they've been good with this off, locals look as guides as well as by converting that homes into homes to is a night in the homes, to in a village with living with bridges going on a family around 2000 rubies, a 25 euros per night. tourism though can be a double edged sword. concrete steps ticketing bullets and was funded by the state government have sprung up and bridges the men to hold a few people at a time beginning to show signs of wet on the hordes of trampling doris's feet. 72 macolon villages have now been identified in you. ness goes 2023, tentative list of was headed to the sites for that bridges. this recognition will increase the popularity and will attract more financial support from the world headed to strong and other institutions. but going forward, the community emphasizes that they must be front and center for this kind of

sustainable development to remain. and then actually from i, we move forward in building good pages together, imparting knowledge from generation to generation on how to plant and build these with bridges of this kind of equal engineering supports both bio diversity and the development of native communities. and these bridges are a testament to the fact that both can exist at the same time. well, that's quite unique and it is such a new going on my to other bucket list. are there any such unique, sustainable construction practices that you are seeing that on you know, let us know you can email us or reach out to me directly on my social media handles . i will see you next week and to let and they get goodbye. and almost gosh, the

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