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Originally Posted by peter12
By every metric, SFH are bad for the environment. By every metric they are worse than every other type of housing.
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There's a paper that questions that:
We estimate that downtown high-rise living in Chicago, IL accounts for approximately 25% more life-cycle energy per person per year than suburban low-rise living, on average, contrary to some common beliefs (best estimates were ~141 and ~113 GJ/person/year, respectively). Building operational energy use was found to be the largest contributor of the total life-cycle energy in both the downtown high-rise and suburban low-rise cases, followed by vehicle operational energy.
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...dy_for_Chicago