eli5,Why aren’t all urinals no flush/ no water?
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1. Few people want to be the “first” to adopt new technology
2. The perception they smell (not necessarily true)
3. Restrooms in office buildings are usually owned and controlled by the LL, meaning even though I can build whatever I want in my office, I don’t typically have any say in what the bathrooms look like or when they get renovated. (LLs won’t spend $250k renovating a pair of core restrooms because I’m a hippie)
4. LLs want standardized restrooms, you don’t want 1 floor in a 50 story high-rise, out of a dozen properties you manage, to have different fixtures for maintenance, cleaning and repairs.
5. Cheaper to reuse existing infrastructure – see items 3 and 4
6. Unions can be a hassle. I’m specifically referring to a recent MAJOR building in a major American market where the unions still required all waterless fixtures have domestic water plumbed to them because “the technology won’t work”.
7. And the big one – No one really cares. 99% of construction decisions boil down to apathy.
(source – I work in this industry)
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