I鈥檓 not convinced that energy efficiency is a reason for advocating high rise

One Australian report says: 鈥淭he average energy emissions for a new high-rise apartment are comparable to the average emissions from a new house, even excluding emissions from central services. Common-area energy emissions are more than a third as large as apartment energy emissions, so with these included, emissions per high-rise apartment are about 19% higher than per house. As apartments tend to have fewer occupants than houses, average emissions per occupant are twice as high.鈥�

Tony Bryer, Melbourne

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