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“Green” Building Blues

March 6th, 2008 by joe

Mystical environmentalism is the disease. Stories like this one will be the cure:

According to my source, architect Mayne has stated that federal office workers do not get enough exercise. To address this, he installed elevators in the building that only stop at every third floor. This requires employees to walk up or down one or two flights of metal stairs.

Persons with physical disabilities who cannot use stairs can use a separate elevator that stops at every floor. The foreseeable result is that employees seeking to avoid stairs use the disabled access elevator, leaving this car crammed with people and making the ride to the top extremely slow…

That’s just a teaser - read and chuckle.

UPDATE: There will be a conference on this very topic on Monday in Williamsburg.

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