I am thinking of ideas for building a house and more and more I am
wondering why we don't build houses more like office buildings.

I realize some of this is changing for example using concrete walls (I am
planning on that so far), using Steel(also planning on that), and having
no load bearing walls just having steel or concrete beams, columns.

One idea I have been considering as a design idea is to have all ceiling
tiles thorughout the house and not have any drywall ceilings at all.

There are a number of reasons I think this might be a good idea:

The main one is the ase of access to infrastructure/utilities.
This is one of the main reasons they do it in office buildings.

With a tile celing you have a small space above the ceiling to access and utilities, wiring, plumbing etc..

It makes it very easy to put in or move lighting outlets, run new cables for networking, telecom, or catv etc.

After having the experience of trying to wire a 50yr old house for new technolgies such as networking etc this is a huge plus in my department.

Imagine being able to redo the lighting in a room without having to
worry about any drywall work at all, simple easy and quick as can be.
Want to take out those old fixtures and put some recessed lights around
the room permiter? No problem...take out the old fixtures, replace the
old tiles with new ones. Cut out where you want the new lights to be
installed and put them in. Boom your done, no patching, not cutting,
sanding painting etc.

Imagine wanting to run some new home network, phone, satellite tv,
security alarm, security camera lines or whatever. With celing tiles,
you can have a raceway the whole length of the building to easily run
these lines without having to cut any holes in walls, or use fish tape
etc.. it could be very simple matter of just running the wires in the
ceiling and dropping down into the wall you wanted. Same thing if you
wanted to move a phone jack from one wall to another in the same
room...it would be much easier to do it from the ceiling space.


Am I wrong for questioning the way we have "always" built houses? Am I
overlooking anything seriously wrong with this idea?