Ronald Rovers, scientist sustainability at Eindhoven University of Technology, endorses that reasoning. “The higher a building, the higher the energy consumption per square meter,” is his position. “Because of transport systems such as lifts and pumps.” According to the researcher in building physics, apartment complexes could have a maximum of four layers to limit energy use. That is at the expense of the public space. “But there is that space,” Rovers claims. “It only takes more effort and it requires more creativity.”
High -rise solution for housing shortage? “Build no more than four floors”
