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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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Having withdrawn from the Bosphorus tunnel bid due to "heavy conditions," Japan's interest in Turkey is once again on the rise. Major companies, including Kajima, Japan's biggest construction company, is focusing on Turkey to bid on construction for the third Bosporus bridge, as well as and electricity distribution for nuclear energy. Sadao Umeda, Japanese-Turkish Economic Council and Kajima president, stated their interest in these fields have increased, and hinted they were also keeping an eye on the communications industry. Concerning bids on third generation mobile phone long awaited in Turkey, Umada suggested they "establish a fully competitive market." Currently in Tokyo, Turkish State Minster Kursad Tuzmen and a delegation of businessmen accompanying him met members of the Japanese-Turkish Economic Council under the umbrella of Keidanre, which is the rival of the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen Association (TUSIAD) in Japan.
On a typical day, Eleke Crescent (now called Walter Carrington Crescent) in Victoria Island, Lagos, is a beehive of activities. In this crescent, embassies have their offices. People troop in and out. Business booms. The crowd is always overflowing. On the shade overlooking the lagoon, there are seats for visa applicants, who sit waiting patiently for their turn to enter embassies and high commissions that inundate the landscape of Eleke Crescent to face visa interviewers who must decide their fate as it where.
The stress and humiliation many a Nigerian young man goes through in trying to secure visa for the proverbial greener pastures abroad has been told and retold several times. Impatience and peer pressure have made several people to abandon all they have in the country to become economic refugees abroad.
MODESTO - Kaiser Permanente's new Modesto Medical Center has earned national recognition as one of the "greenest" health-care facilities in North America.
It is being hailed by environmental advocates as a national model for future hospital construction even before it is fully operational.
Stories have appeared on National Public Radio, in several construction magazines and The Wall Street Journal - owned by Dow Jones & Co., The Record's parent company.
The Discovery Channel recently filmed at the site for its "Get Fresh" program scheduled for broadcast in January. And John Fowler, health and science editor for the Bay Area's Fox affiliate, KTVU Channel 2, will air a story at 5 p.m. Tuesday on the "green" aspects of the medical center.
What they focused on was Kaiser's decision to build its first medical facility registered under the Green Guide for Health Care.
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