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I would expect this from a technically illiterate marketing pawn, but coming from a co-founder and Chief Sustainability Officer is inexcusable.
1. There is nothing sustainable about suburban sprawl in the middle of the desert. PERIOD.
2. Net-Zero energy use in operation is not “Net-Zero energy”. Whatever material you use for the structure, the polyurethane foam, and steel frames are FAR more carbon intensive than traditional construction methods, so your “net zero” building likely has a larger footprint for at least a few decades if not it’s entire life versus an all electric minimum code-built POS.
3. Comparing LIHTC projects that pay prevailing wages is bullshit in general, and no you can't count each bedroom as a unit, WTF is that nonsense?!
4. What happens if anyone wants to modify or repair one of these down the line when the company has almost certainly gone belly up? No structural engineer will touch them and they’ll be teardowns far sooner than a properly built stick frame.
5. How much of that building will be recyclable or reusable? It’s great to reduce construction waste, but if in 20-100 years when the building is demolished, what other than the steel can be diverted from a landfill?
Put this toe to toe with an equivalently optimized panelized wood based assembly and it will lose every time. Unfortunately wood studs aren’t sexy or disruptive enough for VCs that know nothing about buildings, so there’s no funding for those.