Epidemic Of Kidney Failure In Nepalese Workers In ME Previews What A Hotter Future Means

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6. This will continue to be problematic until engineers are directed toward costly efforts of redesign.

Prefabrication and compartmentalized installation can eliminate the need for workers to be outside of climate-controlled conditions. The problem is that the bottom-line cost of building will probably double, at least initially, until the method becomes standard practice. In the world of lenders, investors and developers that means "prohibitively expensive". Meanwhile, there's no motivation to make the least change so long as slave labor is available and so long as the wealthy are allowed to exist.

How badly does Kuwait need that skyscraper? Can the world tolerate the conditions wherein people ruin their health to construct a building they'll NEVER be allowed to even enter?

The most "luxurious" project I personally worked on was a Hilton Garden Inn. It is by no means an unattainable dream to stay there for most. While it was going up, the utter unfairness sickened me as I knew those Nicaraguans and Romanians covered in the mud, sweat and dust of their trade could never afford such accommodations without financial ruin. I made their foremen have them take shade breaks at least twice per day in addition to their lunch time. It stunned them a little for the first few days. Otherwise, they'd work 10-12 hrs. with only a few minutes to choke down a taco from the "roach" wagon.