Repairs to Wellington City Council headquarters expected to be more than $30 million

Edit Stuff 29 Sep 2017
Wellington City Council has warned its insurers that the repair bill for one of its Civic Square buildings is expected to be more than $30 million. The pink, six-storey civic administration building, which was built in the 1990s has been closed since the November 14 earthquake. As well as acting as the council's main public service centre and iSite centre for tourists, the building previously housed around 450 employees....

Repairs to Wellington City Council headquarters expected to cost more than $30 million

Edit Stuff 29 Sep 2017
Wellington City Council has warned its insurers that the repair bill for earthquake related damage to one of its buildings is expected to be more than $30 million. The pink, six-storey civic administration building, which was built in the 1990s has been closed since the November 14 earthquake ... * Wellington City Council Civic Square building stays closed ... The building was insured for around $48m, Matthews said....

Clark Pacific Launches New Adelanto Plant, Triples Production Capacity of Prefab Building Systems in Southern California

Edit Market Watch 29 Sep 2017
ADELANTO, Calif., Sep 28, 2017 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Clark Pacific, one of the nation’s leading design-build manufacturers of prefabricated building systems, today announced the opening of its newest fabrication facility, located at 9367 Holly Road in Adelanto, CA ... The company now has over 300 industrial acres and employs over 900 in California dedicated to prefabricated building systems market throughout the region....

Bombay HC faults BMC for razing portion of tilted building

Edit The Times of India 29 Sep 2017
The Bombay high court has termed the BMC's demolition of parts of a "dilapidated" building illegal for not following proper procedure and depending on a questionable structural condition report, and allowed the tenants to carry out repairs. Early this month, civic officials evacuated Damji Sadan, a building in Ghatkopar (East), and demolished some portions, claiming it had tilted and could collapse any time....

Council Supports Illegal Building Control in Flat Area

Edit Berita Jakarta 29 Sep 2017
City Council Commission D supports Jakarta Provincial Government act in controlling illegal building in seven flat areas ... Hopefully there will be no illegal building again," he said, Thursday (9/28)....

More Than An Eyesore, Woman Says Abandoned Belle Harbor Building Made Her Sick

Edit CBS Sports 29 Sep 2017
The building used to be the Hotel Del Mar, then eventually it became the Chai Residence For Senior Citizens ... The Palmieros shared pictures they took of people climbing on the roof and fences to get inside, and racoons and opossums who have made the building their home ... “I believe this building next door is making me terribly sick....

Town to focus on vacant buildings

Edit Rutland Herald 29 Sep 2017
Dilapidated and vacant buildings in Rutland Town could come under a new ordinance designed to help clean up and beautify the town ... Avacant building ordinance could address some ......

PWD to spend Rs13 cr on VIP buildings maintenance

Edit The Times of India 29 Sep 2017
The division no 1 of public works department, Nagpur, has floated a tender which shows that the department intends to spend about Rs13 crore on maintenance of VIP buildings in the city. Such amounts are spent every year even as these buildings are not even used for a month in the whole year. Maintenance of these buildings is done every year, which raises question mark on quality of work done by division no 1 of Nagpur PWD....

Family in 'living hell' after neighbours demolish house without consent

Edit Stuff 29 Sep 2017
A solo mother's complaints of a "living hell" caused by building work highlights the ticking time bomb of cross lease properties and councils who wash their hands of responsibility ... The building work is all on property she technically owns, and it is all Auckland Council approved ... But cross lease owners actually own all the buildings and land which are then leased back to different owners for 999-year periods....

More UTC housing planned with $38 million project

Edit Times Free Press 29 Sep 2017
One of the highest profile corners on the edge of downtown Chattanooga will see student housing as a developer prepares to build a 456-bed, $38 million apartment building ... 138-unit apartment building with 456 beds....

Benton County officials eye 2018 budget

Edit NWA Online 29 Sep 2017
County Judge Barry Moehring told the justices of the peace the county has assembled its team of architects and consultants, bond counsels, and a construction management firm for the courts building project ... 3 Finance Committee meeting in the Quorum Courtroom in the County Administration Building, 215 E ... The most recent estimates placed the cost of the building at $20 million to $25 million....

Heroes versus villains: Buildings and climate change

Edit Scoop 29 Sep 2017
Heroes versus villains. Buildings and climate change Do you go to work in a heroic building designed to combat greenhouse gas emissions? Given buildings account for over a third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions this isn’t an idle question ... ....

Residents to be informed about cladding on Glasgow flats

Edit BBC News 29 Sep 2017
Last week, Glasgow City Council told a Holyrood committee it told government ministers about the buildings, but not residents or the fire service....
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