We talk a lot around here about the surprising difficulty of building small-scale apartment buildings. Here's a post from earlier this year where I outlined a working list of policies, codes, and approaches that would need to change in order to unlock more of this housing type.

But my list was just that — a list — and the reality is that each individual item can be shockingly complex. To that end, here's a recent study, published by the Neptis Foundation, called "Ontario Building Code Missing Middle Study: Bridging the gap between houses and high-rises."

The authors are Conrad Speckert of Semibold Solutions (who has appeared on this blog in the past) and Jack Keays of Vortex Fire Consulting, and I encourage you to download a free copy. I haven't gone through it yet, but I will, because we are actively working on projects at this exact scale.

Enjoy the weekend.

Cover photo by Danish Prakash