Prohibitive cost of building maintenance
- Expensive building upkeep
Incidence
The Lloyd's ultra-modern building in London cost £91 million and about £1.5 million a year to repair and maintain, around 50% per square metre more than less sophisticated office premises. The exterior lifts and steel cladding pose particularly high maintenance costs.
Claim
Hi-tech buildings have not performed in the way professionals had promised. It is almost at the stage where you need fully-fledged engineers to maintain buildings designed by fully-fledged engineers. The image of the technology hijacks the functionality. A lot of hi-tech solutions are just too clever for the skills available to keep them going.
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SDG
Metadata
Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
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N/A
Subject
Content quality
Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
J4670
DOCID
12046700
D7NID
141169
Last update
Oct 4, 2020