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How much in additional HVAC costs result from having high ceilings though?

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Portland has pretty mild weather. Probably not much.

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society should have _some_ nice things, not everything needs to be cost optimized to the extreme with a microscope. :)

On the bright side, they used timber for almost all of the construction here which is effectively a “carbon sink”, which is unusual for an airport.