Liberty Property Trust, which is building the 975-foot-tall Comcast Center, is seeking to change the building code so it can install the water-saving devices and have its skyscraper certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. The 58-story Comcast Center could save 1.6 million gallons of water a year with the no-flush basins, advocates say.
But the influential Plumbers Union Local 690 has blocked the code change because the urinals lack water lines and therefore require less labor to install. City officials have so far deferred to the union, which is led by Edward Keenan, a close friend of Bob Brady, the Philadelphia congressman who also heads the city's Democratic Party.
fuck that. i'm sure the horse carriage union wasn't too happy when the first fords came rolling out either.
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