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What is the climate footprint of a tower like this. I was under the impression that skyscrapers didn’t have that positive of an impact even when accounting for the positives of more dense living. Isn’t there an optimum around 5-8 stories, higher than that you’ll start seeing diminishing returns, and after like 20 stories, than the impact starts getting more and more negative?

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This seems very unintuitive to me, what is the reasoning behind this?

I’m not an architect nor a civil engineer so perhaps I’ve got this completely wrong, but I think it has something to do with both the amount of concrete required, which has a huge climate footprint, as well as the logistics around pluming, cooling, heating, vertical escalation, emergency response, etc. become increasingly difficult as you add more stories. At some point these difficulties add up to make it worse than a 5-8 story mid-rise.

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