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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
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As that BNN story says, there's some concern that the highrises in Toronto and Vancouver that have shop up in the past decade are in for enormous repair bills in another 20 year or so as the glass window walls, which have a limited lifespan, start to fail and need replacing. (Among other issues).
Glass looks cool, but it's not energy efficient, and it has enormous implications for ongoing building maintenance. We have problems with a large stock of run-down buildings from a century or two ago, but some of these new buildings might be similarly rundown in only a couple of decades, and they might be just as pricey to fix, if not moreso.