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DURHAM -- State officials inspected Eagles Landing after North Carolina Central asked the state to buy the privately-owned dorm. Inside, they found trash dangerously packed into a garbage chute, which they called a fire hazard, sprinklers that did not work, and water damage. In a letter to the director of Durham's Inspections Department, officials from the State Construction Office said, "Regardless of whether the state purchases Eagles Landing or chooses not to...there needs to be immediate correction of all life safety items by the private owner." "We, of course, believe the building is safe," said Rosalind Fuse-Hall, who is with the NCCU Real Estate Foundation, which is the group that owns the dorm.
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President Traian Basescu said the rate of construction imposed by U.S.-based Bechtel on the Transilvania Highway must not respect the rule by which "when winter comes we no longer work."
"We must eliminate the rule according to which during winter, the construction sector is dead. We can excavate, work on the foundations, because we must eliminate the old Romanian rule," said Basescu. The president believes that if the Ministry of Transportation decides the company does not have the capacity to work properly, there will be a way to renounce the services offered by Bechtel.
In late June, Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu asked Bechtel to speed up works on the Transilvania Highway.
Tariceanu said, during his visit to a construction site in Cluj County that works needed to be sped up so that the Cluj-Oradea section is ready first.
Construction has resumed at Bluegrass Airport in Lexington and officials say the re-opening of the shorter of its two runways will occur by Thanksgiving. The shorter runway was closed after an August 27 crash that killed 49 people. The pilots of Comair 5191 mistakenly took off from the shorter of the two runways. Airport director Michael Gobb says construction is underway and will continue for 20 to 30 days. The construction project includes a new taxiway connection to the 7,000 foot runway for commercial flights and demolition of the shorter taxiway connection. .
ATLANTA, October 12, 2006 - Off-campus internships have ironically sent Oglethorpe University seniors Nate Blong and Robert Pavelka, Jr. back to campus. They are interning for companies chosen to design and build Oglethorpe's new residence halls. Blong, from Panama City, Florida, is in Oglethorpe's dual-degree engineering program with Georgia Tech and plays on Oglethorpe's basketball team. An outstanding student, Blong is interning on the residence hall construction project through the architectural firm Gardner Spencer Smith Tench & Hensley and liaising with their engineering subcontractors. "I sat in on all the planning meetings and made corrections to the plans so that the architects could just focus on designing. After graduation I hope to get a job in structural engineering," said Blong.
Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Louise T. Blouin MacBain, the multimillionaire arts publisher and patron, opens a London institute today with a show by the Arizona-based contemporary artist James Turrell, ``A Life in Light.'' The institute, a former 1920s car-body factory located in an underdeveloped area north of London's Notting Hill, was inaugurated with much fanfare last night at a party for some 1,000 people. Such were the crowds that bouncers briefly kept guests waiting behind security cordons before letting them in. Among those attending were singer Grace Jones, a brown cap lowered over her plucked eyebrows; human-rights campaigner Bianca Jagger, who stepped out of a chauffeur-driven limousine wearing dark glasses; and designer Ron Arad, who wore a large, lopsided baseball cap.
I applaud the LDS Church's substantial commitment to the economy and vibrancy of downtown Salt Lake City. The City Creek Center is progressive, engaging ideas congruent with current urban planning theory. Yet, I perceive an irreplaceable and regrettable architectural loss.
The blank-slate mentality inherent in the development plan echoes post-war urban renewal in which American cities permanently lost historic neighborhoods under the guise of progress. In efforts to enliven downtown, the authors of City Creek Center propose removing key elements of the city's historic architectural affluence.
Of those, the historic 1919 First Security Bank Building adds a rich architectural diversity to the relatively limited building stock downtown and should be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but is not, which makes its loss easier to bear and easier to propose.
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