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Originally Posted by timun
I am a consulting engineer in this industry, and I wondered the same thing: how do you convert a continuously sloping floor slab into anything other than a parkade? At first blush the design seemed idiotic to me.
I know the architects and consulting engineers on that project; when I asked, the explanation I got is that the floor slope is so gradual that it's "acceptable" within the standards of Class B and below office space, or some sort of light industrial usage. 
I'm extremely skeptical that it ever gets converted to some other use... |
Basically the political class wanted the building to be "convertable" to make it more PC/ESG to build a parkade. You know, because we'll be phasing out automobiles any minute now.
So the engineers involved billed them for extra hours to consider the issue and told them it could be done. But as a practical matter it would almost certainly be more economically efficient to tear it down when replacing it with a new use is the right choice.