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Environment & Energy

Nigrum Cattus

(738 posts)

5. Because people will buy them

Reply to PJMcK (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 10:58 PM

Jan 2025

The cities want the tax revenue, the people want the view. This is
a matter of choice. The thing is it does not cost that much more
to construct a house with a non-flammable frame. Most commercial
building I built were all steel frames. The Architects here in socal
build their homes with steel frames & some even base isolate them
to make them earthquake resistant. https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1022-base-isolation-and-seismic-dampers

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