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Residents relieved as demolition starts on collapsing buildings in Tala - Cyprus Mail

Demolition expert S.B. Sarwate on Tuesday said that razing of the illegal flats at Maradu through controlled explosion would not have any significant impact on any structures in their vicinity.

Talking on controlled explosions at an event organised by the Institution of Engineers India, Kochi chapter, Mr. Sarwate, roped in by the government to help it pull down the structures that violated the CRZ rules, said that any normal structure would develop minor cracks after five years of construction. The character of soil in places like Kochi accelerates the process. He maintained that there was no need to link the cracks spotted at houses in the neighbourhood of the flats to the controlled explosion proposed for razing the towering apartment complexes to ground.

Mr. Sarwate, who holds a record in guiding over 250 demolitions through controlled explosions, said that from his experience, there was no need to harbour apprehensions about any danger from the proposed demolition at Maradu. The concerns raised by the residents in the neighbourhood had come to his notice, he said. But their fear is unfounded, he said.

The demolition, he argued, would be eco-friendly, as it would give rise to better atmosphere. It doesnt generate any chemicals. The concrete debris from the demolition can be removed and disposed of in about eight to 10 days, Mr. Sarwate said.

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A decision on whether to demolish Napier's civic building and library has been put off after doubts were raised about whether it was severely earthquake-prone as previously thought.

Napier's library. Photo: Google Maps

Both buildings have been empty since 2017 after an assessment found them to be earthquake prone and council staff have recommended demolishing both so the site could be sold or leased to a hotel company.

The 2017 Strata assessment found the civic building only met 10 percent of legal requirements for earthquake strength under the New Building Standards, while the library only met 15 percent.

However, former top EQC structural engineer Graeme Robinson told councillors this morning that his own assessment of the building in 2010 found it fully complied with earthquake standards.

"I assessed the main office building at not less than 100 percent of the New Building Standard for current earthquake design loadings, and I found that the council chambers had some structural limitations, so I recommended that it should be strengthened or demolished within 20 years."

The Strata report recommended the building be strengthened or demolished within 7.5 years, but it did not explain the level of "earthquake horizontal force" applied in its calculations, Mr Robinson said

"That is a fundamental issue I have with that Strata report. Without identifying the level of horizontal force that a new building of the same style would now be designed to resist, it is impossible to stats what percentage of that horizontal force would cause the building to collapse."

Strata appeared to have identified two columns that were expected to fail in an earthquake, despite rigid walls absorbing the bulk of the shocks, he said.

"And it is only after they have yielded and deflected sideways by significant distances that the flexible columns will be called upon to resist horizontal forces."

"The Strata assessment appears to reverse this sequence of structural failure," he said.

The Strata report also calculated that the building would collapse at a very low-level of shaking, yet it had survived four large earthquakes since it was constructed in 1968, Mr Robinson said.

Napier City Council's director of city strategy Richard Munneke told councillors the proposal to demolish the civic building was not around seismic strengthening, but that it was no longer fit for purpose.

"The civic building was prohibitively expensive to get up to modern building standards. It was decided we could sell the site for other purposes ... the demolition is one step in that process and no hotel to date has wanted anything to do with the current building in terms of building a hotel on that site," he said.

The council was in discussions with a hotel group to sell or lease the site, it confirmed.

However, in light of Graeme Robinson's report the council voted to delay its decision until the next council meeting on December 19.

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Napier demolition put on hold after doubts raised over severity of earthquake risk - RNZ

This years anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition comes after the historic SC verdict of Nov 9 that the disputed land would be given to the Hindu parties.

The Hyderabad city police have imposed Section 144 from Thursday to Saturday across the city. The move by the police comes a day ahead of the 27th anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition on December 6.

We have received information that certain groups are trying to create disturbances affecting public peace and order in the city, inciting communal animosity between different communities on December 6, the police said, in a statement to media.

Police have said that Section 144 will be in force from Thursday 6 pm to Friday 6 am.

The police have prohibited all kinds of processions, dharna, rally (including motorcycle rally) or public meetings during the period. Prohibition has also been placed on individuals or groups of individuals from making any speech, gesture or displaying pictures, symbols, placards, flags etc, which are likely to create religious animosity or hatred between different communities or individuals or is likely to cause disturbance to the public peace and order in the limits of the city, except those permitted by the police.

This years anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition comes after the historic November 9 verdict by the five-judge bench of the Supreme Court (SC) that gave a unanimous judgment in the Ayodhya case. The Supreme Court held that the disputed land would be given to the Hindu parties.

The SC also ordered alternate land measuring five acres for the Sunni Muslim Waqf Board. The verdict was given by a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, and comprised Justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer.

The Centre has been tasked with the creation of a Board of Trustees for the construction of the temple at the disputed site. The trust has to be set up within three months from the verdict and the trust will take over the management of construction of the temple.

The disputed 2.77 acre land, which includes the inner and outer courtyards, will be handed over by the Centre to the trustees. The rest of the land will also be handed over to the trustees.

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Detroit The City Council's rejection of the Duggan administration's request to add a $250 million bond proposal to the March ballot will stand.

The City Clerk's Office on Monday confirmed that none of the panel's nine members had filed a motion to have the vote reconsidered by the 4 p.m. deadline. The council turned down the proposal by a 6-3 vote last Tuesday after weeks of contentious debate and a packed town hall meeting that drew upwards of 500 residents, activists, clergy and lawmakers.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan speaks to the media last week after the Detroit City Council rejected a proposal, 6-3, to put a $250 million bond before city voters in the spring.(Photo: David Guralnick, The Detroit News)

The council's vote came soon after Detroit's auditor general released a critical report of city-administered demolition work that cited unreliable data, a lack of transparency and documentation and other failures.

Duggan has said herespected the council's decision and intended to meet with each member to discuss alternatives to the original measure that met opposition over its timing and a lack of details over how the city-funded program will operate going forward and who will oversee it, among other concerns.

Duggan and council members have not counted out the prospect of a proposal to put a bond initiative before voters in November 2020.

The mayor's effort to come up with additional funding for demolition comes as some $265 million in federal Hardest Hit dollars wind down. Duggan has touted that the30-year bond would have wiped out the city's remaining 19,000 blighted houses by 2025.

Under its debt-cutting bankruptcy plan, the city gets $50 million each year for blight, $30 million of which is earmarked for residential demolition.

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Crews removing the final piece of the Alaskan Way Viaduct. (Jon Jussero, KIRO 7)

After months of work, the demolition of the Alaskan Way Viaduct has finally come to an end.

Crews finished clearing the final pieces of the viaduct late Thursday morning, for what the Washington State Department of Transportation labeled a giant recycling project.

To that end, concrete from the demolition was reused to fill the Battery Street Tunnel. In total, roughly 240 million pounds of concrete was recycled, as well as 15 million pounds of steel rebar.

Nothing about this job was easy, Secretary of Transportation Roger Millar said in a news release. The demolition project was a remarkable accomplishment as the viaduct stood perilously close to buildings and utilities and a critical rail corridor.

Crews have been working since February to dismantle the structure thats stood along Seattles waterfront since the 1950s.

If youre looking to get a piece of the action, youre in luck WSDOT is giving out concrete pieces of the viaduct free of charge.

You can get your piece of the viaduct at the Waterfront Spaceon the corner of Western Avenue and Union Street, any time between Wednesday and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. The space is currently a showcase for Seattles reimagined waterfront, run by Friends of the Waterfront Seattle.

In the days ahead, the waterfront along Alaskan Waywill be completely overhauledto include a 20-acre park and public space, a promenade and bike path, an overlook walk, a seawall, and more.

Construction has already begun on two-way bus lanes on Columbia Street to connect transit between 3rd Avenue and SR 99 south of downtown.

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Its official: Alaskan Way Viaduct demolition is finally over - MyNorthwest.com

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Now that Alaskan Way Viaduct demolition is ending, the state is offering fragments of the 66-year-old structure to the public.

The free ruins are available at Friends of Waterfront Seattle, 1400 Western Ave., Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.Most pieces are smaller than a baseball, spokeswoman Laura Newborn said.

When viaduct removal started last winter, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) wouldnt offer pieces, but recently decided to do so. WSDOT received more than 100 requests.

Only four columns remain, on a slope north of Victor Steinbrueck Park, after crews removed crossbeams Tuesday.

Most rubble from the 122,000-ton roadway has been pulverized and poured into the defunct Battery Street Tunnel. The remainder will become fill next to its south portal or be sent to other Northwest projects.

A new Highway 99 tunnel opened Feb. 4 to replace the viaduct.

Meanwhile, other crews are mobilizing to build the Alaskan Way boulevard, with wide waterfront sidewalks, two parklike lids and a bike lane by 2024. Road widths will vary from nine lanes at Colman Dock to four lanes near Olympic Sculpture Park.

A four-lane bridge will link surface Alaskan Way uphill to Elliott Avenue in Belltown.

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Pieces of the Hanover Mall are going to school and nonprofit groups across the region as the shopping center prepares for demolition early in 2020. The mall will be replaced with a new mixed-use development named Hanover Crossing.

Were trying to keep things out of the landfill and put them to good use, said Lisa Berardinelli, who is responsible for the donation program.

She said shelves, archways, and holiday decorations from the mall are going down the road to the Cardinal Cushing Centers, a school for people with disabilities. Cardinal Spellman High School in Brockton also will get materials, as will Central Middle School in Quincy, which asked for props for a theater production, she said.

South Shore Hospital is getting a pushcart, which will be used as a small shop for employees, she said, and the Hanover Visiting Nurse Association is getting racks and display units.

The plan is to donate as much of the buildings furnishings as possible, she said.

Ive been here 23 years and part of my job was to keep the mall full, so to be emptying it is kind of sad, Berardinelli said. But Im so excited about the transformation that is coming.

PREP Property Group of Ohio, which bought the mall in 2016, has said that Hanover Crossing will include 600,000 square feet of commercial space and four separate apartment buildings with 297 units. The developer said tenants will include Market Basket grocery, Showcase Cinemas, a bowling alley, and several restaurants.

Johanna Seltz can be reached at seltzjohanna@gmail.com.

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NO-BUILD AREA The demolition of residential and commercial buildings along Bulabog Beach on Boracay Island. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines The demolition of 10 structures allegedly encroaching on the beach easement on Boracay Island will be completed this week, according to an official of an interagency task force.

We do not have enough personnel and we are removing concrete structures but we expect the demolition to be completed within the week, Natividad Bernardino, general manager of the Boracay Inter-Agency Rehabilitation Management Group, told the Inquirer.

Bernardino said three of the 10 commercial and residential structures targeted for demolition had already been dismantled.

These include the Freestyle Academy Kite Surfing School, Lumbung Residences and a unit of 7 Stones Boracay Suites.

The demolition of parts of the Aira Hotel, Ventoso Residences, Kite Center at Banana Bay, Wind Riders Inn, Pahuwayan Suites, Boracay Gems and a unit of 7 Stones Boracay Suites is ongoing.

The commercial and residential occupants were found to have encroached on the easement, a no-build area since the island was closed to tourists for the six-month rehabilitation set on April 26 to Oct. 25 last year.

A road will also be built along Bulabog Beach, at the eastern side of the 1,032-hectare island parallel to White Beach, the islands main attraction.

Owners of the buildings up for demolition have filed a civil complaint before the Kalibo, Aklan, Regional Trial Court to have the demolition stopped and declared illegal.

They maintained that they were already compliant with easement rules after they removed parts of their properties based on measurements conducted by the local government of Malay, Aklan, and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

They are also questioning the new measurements conducted by the DENR in 2018.

The demolition started on Nov. 7 after a 20-day temporary restraining order lapsed on Nov. 4.

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