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INSPECTION: Workers in protective clothing examine BNZ House, where demolition has been halted.

Demolition specialists, wearing protective clothingbecause ofthe asbestos risk, inspected the roof ofBNZ House in Cathedral Square today.

The demolition of BNZ House was stopped last July 20 when asbestos was found on steel beams encased in concrete.

Specialists are stripping asbestos from the steel beams, but the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority(Cera) has no date for when demolition will be complete.

A spokeswoman said thework was part of theprocess that would lead to the building coming down.

Last year, contaminated demolition rubble from the building was stockpiled on a Hereford St site until asbestos was found.

The stockpile site was covered in tarpaulins and dampened down after the July discovery.

The BNZ House demolition also contaminated Hereford St, where loose fibres of the harmful material were found.

Traces of white and brown asbestos were found at five points in Hereford St and nine points on the stockpile site,a report commissioned by Cera found.

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Liberty University began demolition Thursday on one of its oldest residence halls, bidding farewell to an important part of its history, but elevating the quality of campus life for students by kicking off a massive housing project that calls for an eight-story high-rise residence tower.

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The one-story, 24-room Dorm 4 building opened in spring 1978 and has housed male students ever since. Mark Hine, senior vice president of Student Affairs and a Liberty alumnus, was among the first to live in the building, serving as a resident assistant his senior year. On Thursday, he toured his old residence before demolition began.

The building was brand new. The furniture was brand new. They were exciting times for Liberty as we watched the halls go up, Hine recalled. Its kind of neat to stand here (in his old room) and come back to my roots.

Only meant to be temporary buildings when they were constructed in the 1970s, the 16 Circle residence halls have long outlived their purpose and will all eventually be torn down as Liberty continues its quarter-of-a-billion dollar campus transformation.

Demolition of Dorms 1-3 will follow in the coming weeks. Liberty students who lived in those halls have relocated to the Quality Inn, now owned by Liberty and adjacent to the schools Residential Annex on Odd Fellows Road, a short distance from campus. These students will have the first choice of rooms in the new building, Hine said.

Hine, who oversees the Office of Student Housing, has heard nothing but excitement for the new project.

Everybody Ive talked to that has actually seen the artists rendition of the new residence hall have absolutely been blown away. That building is going to take Liberty University into the future, he said. Even though its kind of sad to see these old butler buildings come down, the excitement for what is going to replace them is absolutely amazing.

When the project was first announced in October 2012, Chancellor and President Jerry Falwell, Jr. said it would help Liberty continue to attract the best Christian college students in the nation.

God has given Liberty the resources to make this university a better Christian university and we feel we have a responsibility to do it while construction costs are still low due to the poor economy and to do it without delay, he said.

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Iain McGregor

INSPECTION: Workers in protective clothing examine BNZ House, where demolition has been halted.

Demolition specialists, wearing protective clothingbecause ofthe asbestos risk, inspected the roof ofBNZ House in Cathedral Square today.

The demolition of BNZ House was stopped last July 20 when asbestos was found on steel beams encased in concrete.

Specialists are stripping asbestos from the steel beams, but the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority(Cera) has no date for when demolition will be complete.

A spokeswoman said thework was part of theprocess that would lead to the building coming down.

Last year, contaminated demolition rubble from the building was stockpiled on a Hereford St site until asbestos was found.

The stockpile site was covered in tarpaulins and dampened down after the July discovery.

The BNZ House demolition also contaminated Hereford St, where loose fibres of the harmful material were found.

Traces of white and brown asbestos were found at five points in Hereford St and nine points on the stockpile site,a report commissioned by Cera found.

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HOUSTON -

Demolition began Wednesday at the last of Houston's "Dirty Half-Dozen" dangerous buildings.

The bulldozing began Wednesday at the abandoned Aries Motel in the 8100 block of Gladstone in Sunnyside in southeast Houston.

"The demolition will include the removal of the structure, the parking lot and the foundation," Mayor Annise Parker said. "(It will) have a clean lot and hopefully we'll be able to get it back out to the market and have it redeveloped."

The demolition marked the successful end of Parker's goal to destroy the city's six most blighted properties known as the "Dirty Half-Dozen."Those properties also included 3902 West Little York, 10403 Forum Park, 3605 Crosstimbers, 5292 Memorial and 12540 Hillcroft.

The decaying two-story and 31-year-old Aries Motel has been vacant for three years.

"I want to thank the Mayor for all that she has done," added Pastor James Nash of the nearby Greater Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church. "She is familiar with this area and has been working with us for years. This blighted motel had shootings, drugs and prostitution. This is a great day for Sunnyside and all of Houston."

"This day is very special for me and my family and my neighbors. I am so glad because this place is no longer in front of my house," area resident Diana Maldonado said.

In the past three years, the city of Houston has demolished more than 1,000 blighted abandoned homes and 1,120 apartment/condominium units.

"We not only set an aggressive goal, we achieved it in record time," said Parker. "Although our resources are limited, I won't stop until we eliminate all of the dangerous, abandoned buildings threatening our safety, economy and quality of life. Now its on to the next dirty half-dozen."

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Ed Dietl, of the Historical Preservation Association of Rancho Cucamonga, is among a number of people who want to save the historic China House on the southwest corner of Klusman Avenue and San Bernardino Road from demolition. (Photo by Neil Nisperos/Staff)

An order to demolish the building by Feb. 14 has been moved to April 11, said Trang Huynh, Rancho Cucamonga's building inspector.

The extension came after a request this week by the Cucamonga Valley Water District, which owns the property.

After years of concern over the fate of the building, the district had come up with a plan to demolish it. It planned to use some of the original brickwork for a memorial to honor the Chinese laborers who lived in or near the building in the early 20th Century.

After learning of the demolition plan shortly before the new year, regional Chinese heritage group members rallied to convince local water district officials to delay demolition plans. The groups plan to form a China House preservation committee with the Historical Preservation Association of Rancho Cucamonga to come up with a plan to save the building from demolition.

Jo Lynne Russo-Pereyra, assistant general manager of the water district, said the water district is willing to give the groups more time to come back with some type of plan for the building.

Eugene Moy, vice president of the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California who will co-chair the new committee, said the first step will be to stabilize the building. Groups are also working to find

"If we can make progress, I'm hoping the city will be willing to provide further extensions," Moy said.

"We are going to work diligently and in good faith to come up with a plan and I'm hoping that the city would recognize that and would allow the process to be extended so that good work can be accomplished."

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The days have passed when the city of Hannibals old sewer plant will entice children with a sense of adventure, or serve as a haven for the homeless. Despite temperatures in the low teens Tuesday morning, members of the Street Department could be found using heavy equipment to bring down three buildings near Bear Creek. According to a person familiar with the project who spoke on the condition he not be identified, the demolition portion of the buildings will take only a couple of days. The fill from the stone buildings will be used to fill in basements in two of the structures. While three buildings will be razed, a fourth circular structure will be left standing, according to a worker. That structure, to which there is no ground-level entrance, was filled with sand years ago. The Street Department wants to get the buildings down as soon as possible so that the pieces of heavy equipment being used will not have to be parked overnight at the secluded site any longer than necessary. The city will be happy to have the buildings, which last month City Manager Jeff LaGarce said represented ongoing safety hazards, reduced to rubble as soon as possible. Despite efforts to keep them boarded up, they were frequently wide open, thanks to vandals and the curious. The citys decision to finally bring the long-vacant buildings down might have been spurred by an incident last fall when two children became stuck for a time in one of the buildings before being safely removed. The City Council approved the proposed demolition at its Dec. 18 meeting. The city, however, waited a while before moving forward with the project to give time to step forward to any private contractor interested in performing the work for the salvage rights of the stone structures. And while there was some interest in such a deal, ultimately it has fallen to Street Department personnel to complete the task. While Leon Wallace, Street Department superintendent, did have to coordinate with the BNSF Railway to provide a flagger when city equipment was being moved across the railroad tracks to the site, that was probably the biggest procedural hurdle. No further red tape was encountered since the 8.1 acre plat of city-owned land is not in the citys historic district.

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