PRINCETONThe former University Medical Center on Witherspoon Street is slated to be demolished Friday, weather permitting, Princeton engineer Bob Kiser said.

Kiser and other town officials Monday morning met with representatives of AvalonBay, the developer with plans to turn the hospital site into 280 housing units, to discuss when demolition will take place. The latest estimate given was sometime this week, and Kiser said the town will meet with AvalonBay again Friday morning to confirm the razing.

John Mucha of Yannuzzi Wrecking and Recycling Corp. told residents at a neighborhood meeting earlier this month the demolition process is expected to last between three and six months.

During demolition work, water will be sprayed over the site to keep dust down so its not kicked up by trucks driving around, Mucha said previously, noting this will address about 90 percent of demolition dust.

Storm drains will also be covered with fabric to keep out unwanted particles, and there will be dust monitors at each corner of the property. A weather vane will also be in place to show which way the wind will be blowing, Mucha said.

AvalonBay hired Cerami & Associates to monitor noise levels on the site. Residents can expect sounds including the twisting of steel and the breaking of concrete slabs and the slamming of dump trucks throughout the process, as building materials are either crushed and reused on site or hauled away to a recycling facility.

In addition, the Princeton Health Department is working with the Mercer County Division of Public Health to provide additional noise monitoring. Any noise complaints should be directed to the Engineering Department.

Work is moving along on the property as contractors prepare for demolition. In Kiser's latest update to the public Monday about the project, he said Yannuzzi finished removing carpeting, wiring, lighting fixtures and other building materials that will be reused or disposed.

Asbestos removal from the main hospital building is complete, with the exception of the roof flashings, which Yannuzzi is in the process of removing, the update said.

Work has also begun to remove much of the upper concrete floor deck of the former hospital parking garage that will be replaced with a new concrete deck. It is anticipated to take between 10 and 11 months to complete all of the garage repairs, the update said.

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TO intensify their campaign against illegal vendors, retired Colonel Yusof Jimlani said that he assigned some personnel from the Drainage Management Unit (DMU) to the demolition unit of the city.

Jimlani, who is both the chairman of the DMU and the city's demolition unit, said Monday that he added DMU personnel in order to add to the labor force of the demolition unit.

"We only have 11 personnel sa demolition na original and we added 19 lately so that makes it 30 and this is still not enough because in one operation we normally have around 60 people," Jimlani said.

As of August 2013 to September 14, Jimlani said that they have already conducted 113 demolition operations with an average of nine operations per month, three operations per week with each operation covering three areas.

Jimlani added that they have recorded a "total of 246 documented first-time violators, eight second-time violators and a total number of 186 claimants."

The confiscated items, according to him, are being donated to the House of Hope, Balay Dangupan, City Social Services and Development Office, Davao City Rehabilitation and Treatment Center for Drug Dependents, Davao City Women Dormitory, Davao City Men Jail and Boystown.

Jimlani also said that another reason for the re-assignment of the DMU personnel to the demolition unit is to allow the City Engineer's Office (CEO) to cope with their collection of wastes.

"Currently, we have 76.10 cubic meters of dirt na hindi nakuha nang city engineer's natin because of the lack of trucks to haul it," he said.

Jimlani said that one truck from the CEO can only handle five cubic meters of waste.

"Since I handle the drainage and demolition tanan na naa sa drainage gina-add nako ang mga personnel sa drainage na dili nako mapa-trabaho. Ginagamit nato sila as civilians para makuha nato ning mga gahi ug ulo nato na mga vendors (We are using them as civilians so that we can get the hard- headed vendors)," he said.

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DATE POSTED: Thursday, September 4, 2014 5:01 PM EDT

By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer

Four dust monitors would be set to half the federal Environmental Protection Agency recommended standard and sound an alarm when levels exceed that threshold. AvalonBays demolition company also plans to use a misting machine to shot out an ionized water mist that would control "quite a bit of the dust," saidJohn Mucha, a project manager with Yannuzzi Wrecking & Recycling Corp. Other steps include training fire hoses on the buildings that are being demolished.

His comments came at a public meeting that AvalonBay had to review the upcoming demolition at the site of its planned residential development. The meeting, lasting for a little more than 90 minutes, drew residents, Mayor Liz Lempert and other public officials to the Witherspoon Hall municipal building. The demolition company plans to use heavy equipment to raze the hospital buildings during a project that could take up to six months to complete.

"I think getting information out about whats happening is critical," Mayor Lempert said afterward. "The staff is here to make sure that AvalonBay does what theyve promised theyre going to do and takes all the precautions that theyve said they would take."

Dust was a concern of residents. Municipal health officer Jeffrey Grosser, who attended the meeting, said the four air monitors are set up that way to cover each wind direction. He said there would be a weather station on site, so that if the wind changes direction, the monitors can be adjusted accordingly.

"I think there might be a misconception of how much truck traffic is leaving this site," said Princeton police Sgt. Thomas Murray during the meeting. "I think the misconception is that youre going to see a lot more truck traffic then youre actually going to see in reality."

Steel will be recycled, while masonry will be crushed on site and reused. Four noise monitors will be installed during the project.

By municipal ordinance, demolition is allowed from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays. No demolition is permitted Sundays, municipal engineer Robert V. Kiser said.

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By Vergel O. Santos |Philippine Daily Inquirer

Demolition job is a phrase that has gained currency in our politicsa fairly recent usage, maybe a mere couple of generations.

Borrowed from armed-conflict lingo, the idea involves a plot pursued with insidious intent to destroy a target, completely; in lieu of explosives, political demolitionists use exposs of the most malignant sort.

If a demolition job is fair enough in war, it should be fair enough in politics. It should therefore not come as a surprise to Jejomar Binay; no target, in fact, would seem worthier.

Binay is the patriarch of one of the strongest-entrenched, if newer, political dynasties. His only son is the mayor of Makati, the nations richest city. Its a position that has become a family preserve since he got himself appointed to it by Cory Aquino upon her ascension as revolutionary leader following the popular rising that dislodged the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, in 1986.

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In all fairness, Binay did get his mayoral claim validated by a proper vote, for two straight terms, but that also gave him time to warm the seat for his wife, herself inserted only to keep it in the family while he took a prescribed term-long break before reclaiming it and rewarming it for his son.

The Binay name having acquired the virtue of a national brand, however dubious, a daughter has emerged from absolute obscurity to get herself elected senator of the Republic, while another gets to represent a Makati district in the Lower House of Congress.

Surely, for such a broad hold on power alone, the Binay dynasty deserves to be, if not demolished, at least restrained. As happens moreover, Binay has long made no secreteven longer than he has been vice presidentof his desire to be president; in fact, two years yet before the polls and already he is brandishing the red flag of his burning ambition.

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NEWTOWN TOWNSHIPThe board of supervisors heatedly debated the request by the Villas at Newtown for a demolition permit to raze a historic wooden farmhouse on the property located at the entrance to the development at Upper Silver Lake Road and Penns Trail North.

The issue was not part of the Sept. 10 supervisors agenda and is expected to be formally discussed in detail at the boards Sept. 23 meeting.

The Newtown Township-based McGrath Homes, which is now developing the property under a court-supervised agreement reached with the township, no longer wants to preserve the farmhouse, as previously stipulated.

As a result, the developer had asked the Newtown Area Joint Historic Commission (NAJHC) to recommend that the structure be demolished.

The commission is responsible for the protection and preservation of historically and/or architecturally significant structures in Newtown Township and Newtown Borough, and makes recommendations to elected officials in both municipalities on whether historic structures should be saved.

It also reviews demolition applications.

In July, the NAJHC unanimously denied McGrath Homes request to tear down the farmhouse.

The desire to save the structure has prompted commission member Bill Mahler to implore the township supervisors not to grant the demolition permit.

Speaking during the public comment section of the Sept. 10 supervisors' meeting, Mahler, who also chairs the townships Historical Architectural Review Board (HARB), claimed that the unoccupied three-story farmhouse has considerable historic value.

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