Malta: Developers ignoring the effects of pandemic on building industry – FAA

Developers applying for high-rise buildings are ignoring the effect that the COVID-19 pandemic will have on architecture and construction, conservationist NGO Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar has warned.

“International studies indicate that high-rise buildings will become more expensive to build, less efficient and less desirable as companies and families avoid cramped offices and multi-unit residential blocks, having to share lobbies, lifts and corridors with hundreds of others,” FAA coordinator Astrid Vella said.

“This will reduce the economic attractiveness of investing in tall towers both for offices and residential uses.”

Source: Times of Malta

Updated 17:00

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