Can Notre Dame Cathedral (Paris) be rebuilt, especially in 5 years?

Where do you get the idea of five years in that statement? Macron said nothing about a time frame unless I missed something. The cathedral isn’t totally destroyed and I imagine the damaged parts can be restored. In terms of cost, I don’t know how anyone can estimate it yet but I’m sure it will be in the millions, if not, billions of euros. Some French billionaires have already pledged millions.

It is thousands and thousands of trees to rebuild the the roof and spire. Time is yet to be determined for completion.

I’ve heard 3 years and I’ve heard 5 years.
I think with determination and help, 5 years may be doable.

We have thousands and thousands of trees to pull from Willie, but that’s for the total reconstruction. That many won’t be required for just the roof and spire.

I did see another article in which Macron stated within five yearsit would be restored. I certainly don’t know.

It will probably be more like 15. I mean how close to the original will they want to get?
I take it back. 50 years. Final answer.

I heard 50 years.

They want to do it right; no steel.

Well, the Frauenkirche in Dresden, which was bombed to pieces in WW2, was restored in 11 years. And it is made completely of stone.
So 5 years for a wood roof seems possible.

It doesn’t sound unreasonable. Where I live they sell 200 new houses a month! That’s 200 new wooden roofs and wood framing (some houses are block, but wood still frames the interior rooms) every month within about a square half mile every 30 days. The houses are just one story, so less of an ordeal, but you can drive an hour from here and watch tall buildings go up in just a few years.

It will take that long to do the environmental study and get the permits. Plus is that 5 years including the down time to resolve the strikes?

I thought it was a typo that involves the number 5, so 15 25…

Speed is not necessarily good. “Haste makse waste” as trhe saying goes. Maybe speed is at the expence of quality.