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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 and 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 the trend, the cold flight to quality stephen painter in architect one of the world's biggest firms, focuses on adaptive reuse. people when you're in a lease is an older buildings are going to be less, it will be built because they offer that kind of amenities that 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. really long really is a 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 thrive 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. ready construction accounts for 13 percent of global energy related carbon emissions, more than 5 times to be of use in industry in order to meet climate targets,

but also other sustainability targets. we will need to actually stick with what's already built pretty bad 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 affordable care act on the side of down to see a i'm getting a little closet here from the state and husband wouldn't a whole about if it was in the system to put send it to it's right in the sooner.

but because i'm going to and both sides of the teeth cause non type, 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 it upside to talk to somebody speakers to for the i can do this, we have a lot if needed me to not kicked off a meet. i know i'm getting a hearing from re purposing an old building to serve a 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. there are plenty of empty offices, tons of people lead housing. seems like a pretty simple solution. plus it's environmentally friendly. so why isn't this constantly happening? retrofitting an existing structure is a lot more complicated than planning everything from scratch. as developers have

found out, apartments and officers are always a $1.00 to $1.00 fit. it depends on when and where they were built. modern open plan officers were built for living in. first you must divide up large areas while ensuring rooms get enough sunlight. and you can just have one big bathroom for a whole floor. each room needs a ventilation seating and power to. and for all, you know, the old building is full of assessments. not every challenge is clear before renovation start. and so he must have shown you about how show other demons, questions can seem to affect 20 bucks isn't going visual and an engine because we don't know what time he was talking to you. but do some quick, tough guy. he's kind of a pc. looks. stephen painter, the adaptive reuse specialist as you've been developed an algorithm to measure whether offices or good candidates to be reincarnated as housing clinics, uh around the 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 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. in facades turns out it's just slightly more complicated than just clearing out some cubicles and throwing up a bit of sheet rock, especially if you like a luxury, and that it is like bathrooms and every apartment. and window is an every bedroom. these constraints make many offices just too much work to convert according to the painters research. roughly 30 percent of offices are ideal candidates and well not every office building is right per conversion, adding up all of those that wouldn't be a good fit, would still make a massive difference. 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 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 box can be a bit inhospitable calling with finance barrows by day or thing. it goes pounds outside of business hours, insurance people live, not just work. there could change that as we saw for ourselves this neighborhood of frankfurt, meta god, was developed as a sprawling set of offices in the sixties and seventies. given the wild be creative nickname of the people stopped for office city, but by the mid to thousands, nearly one and 3 of the officers were sitting in faded into the subdivision of mc foot, saying, and was on a 2nd. let me talk to him, you're going to be under a venture outlining the push to pull it up. i go for this is as a dish to us and find some bugs before you had lots teams. you bought one of them

in 2006. the city began converting the empty office towers into housing, creating true mixed use development. now it's still good places to live shop and go to school will instead of just places to work. frankfurt result in the area and turn the parking lots and the green spaces in kindergarten. and it brought in developers to build apartments and shots when they're done, they'll be 6000 apartments here. the other stuff that may lead me is but mega shifted understanding. st. monday and i'm next puzzle and coughing con cindy because of dr. keith, i'm the 1st to have meetings especially. we took a tour of one of the converted office buildings. a 20 story tower turned into 150 apartments in 2020. its former lights made for some corks. every room has sprinklers and architects built around the load varying beams. but they both high ceilings and great deals to as you can see, many of these conversions end up as relatively upscale housing. that might take a bit of pressure off the housing market. but it's not going to bring relief to the

mass. if we want this to be more than just some kind of luxury nice, you don't need anything crazy. just a bit of political will. the canadian city of calgary, which started working with painter to revitalize its downtown in 2021 is a case in the points. calgary had about 38 percent, but you can see in their office loc here and i was assigned one of the worst in the well, i think very quickly actually for our program together, which gives you 75000 square foot to compare 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 under construction, represents about $750.00 new homes. and they have 10 more approved patriots. as 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 in new builds that will have to change if we're going to use this potential to curve emissions. so if you take turns around as an example,

there's a role in the downtown, you cannot renting it, office space, it's project is appointed a month. that was created in the seventy's and they just never got things is because there was no need to change it all now is in desperate need to change it that's. 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. ideally, it'd be the other way around this both legislative and sort of from a garbage. i don't think that we're now even any way of thinking that we're gonna build, you know, hundreds of thousands of units downtown. but i think it's, you know, part of the solution and is an amazing opportunity to take advantage of these existing assets. be 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,

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