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SIP panels aren't going to increase the main stack capacity. Commercial buildings just don't have the capacity for all of the sinks and toilets being used at once. It's a neat idea, and a low voltage lighting system could save a ton of energy, but you still need to gut the building and add critical MEP infrastructure.
I'm going to choose to agree with you since you seem to know what your talking about. It sounds like what you're saying is they are built differently and it's found to take a lot of work to being them up to mass living condition.