We often think of a facelift as an external beautification tool. But in the case of older buildings, it’s what we cannot see (behind the walls) that typically needs the biggest makeover.The Arts at Broussard CrossingTake, for example, the case of the 184-unit The Arts at Broussard Crossing apartment complex in Lafayette, Louisiana. The building’s plumbing system had leaky pipes and mold issues when the owners decided to replace the outdated, polybutylene piping with PEX, or cross-linked polyethylene — a flexible plastic piping product that is growing in popularity for commercial plumbing and hydronic piping systems for both new and re-pipe
