<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Interesting article: http://djcoregon.com/news/2012/08/21/the-high-cost-of-adaptive-reuse-in-portland/<br><br>A snippet: "The report compared environmental impacts of seven types of renovations –
such as commercial to office, warehouse to office and warehouse to
multifamily – in four cities: Chicago, Atlanta, Phoenix and Portland. It
found that 10 to 80 years are needed for a new building 30 percent more
efficient than an average-performing existing one to overcome the
negative climate change impacts related to construction."<br><br>Problem is, it can be expensive to do the seismic upgrades, and people usually opt to build new. "Spataro said the city should perhaps consider a different
approach. 'Rather than subsidize building reuse, why not tax or penalize the
new construction?” she said. “Right now, in my opinion, we make it too
easy to make the new construction happen.'"<br><br>Kat<br></div></body></html>