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Originally Posted by ATL_J
I'm not sure what issue people have with stick built buildings. Housing has been made of wood for centuries and many of these older structures are perfectly fine. Obviously the quality of care that is put into them matters, as with anything. The new buildings are much more energy efficient than their older counterparts and wood framing provides affordability.
The drawback is the developer is limited on how high they can go with wood framing and they're limited on design. Concrete and steel framed buildings offer much more design flexibility, but obviously they're much more costly (from what I read, you're looking at roughly 20% higher costs).
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i disagree. stick built doesn't present any problems if it's a single family living there, but when you've got a large number of people who are at any given time cooking, having loud sex, trying to quell a crying baby, doing yoga and aerobics, and perhaps most importantly, trying to sleep, you've got a huge problem. have you ever stayed in a cheap hotel where you could hear what everyone in adjacent rooms, below and above, were doing? that's the problem you're introducing here.
sure, the apartments will sell for a pretty penny for a short time, but once the luster has faded, they will have a hard time getting people to live in these places. they'll be notorious for noise problems, even if we put aside all the structural problems stick built buildings can encounter over an extended period of time.
i also dispute the fact that long lasting buildings were built primarily from wood or particleboard until the last century. buildings nearly always had a core of brick, cobblestone, or in coastal areas sometimes material like tabby was used— it wasn't a decorative façade like it is now; that's what the houses were supported on. now we've come up with tons of new techniques where we can use braces and whatnot to construct a house entirely out of wood, but that wasn't the way it was done for permanent or load-bearing structures before the last century. wood was the cheapest and most commonly used material, sure, but it wasn't what the house was supported on, excluding structures like log houses which were unique in the fact that they were constructed entirely out of wood— mainly due to the fact that entire logs were used rather than boards.
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that was my point. when there is plenty of available housing developments around the area that don't have noise problems, the stick built developments' rent will plummet. with post stratford they've kind of got a monopoly on the area, at least until the new skyhouse opens.
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