Sentences with phrase «from building collapse»

Damage to property from building collapse after an explosion is also covered.

A 2011 study published in Nature found that an overwhelming majority of deaths from building collapse in earthquakes occur in corrupt countries.

The death toll from a building collapse in Bangladesh has risen to 160 and could climb higher, police said on Thursday, with people trapped under the rubble of a complex that housed garment factories supplying retailers in Europe and North America.

Steel reinforcing bars reclaimed from buildings collapsed in the sichuan earthquake.

But don't be tempted to write off high death counts from building collapses in shaky developing countries as simply another unavoidable consequence of poverty.

Not exact matches

«We have so many casualties proliferating of women and men collapsing from burnout, being distracted, depleted and unfulfilled,» says Huffington, who is herself one of those casualties: She collapsed from exhaustion and broke her cheekbone as a result of the fall — an accident that resulted from working regular 18 - hour days for the preceding two years while she was building HuffPo.

The Huffington Post founder had collapsed of exhaustion and broken her cheekbone as a result of the fall — a collapse that resulted from working regular 18 - hour days for the preceding two years while she was building the site, now one of the most widely - read in the U.S.

Even as Bangladesh tries to extricate itself from the Rana Plaza building collapse, the Dhaka disaster that killed more than 1,100 garment workers, one private equity fund is trying to infuse new capital into the economy: The $ 88 million Frontier Fund, a private equity fund managed by Brummer & Partners, a Stockholm - based asset manager.

Built on the timetable of a premier desperate to divert attention from her collapsing LNG plan, Site C will produce power we will not need at its completion date and will lose $ 800 million in its first four years of operation.

MILESTONES: BANGLADESH By Udayan Gupta Even as Bangladesh tries to extricate itself from the Rana Plaza building collapse, the Dhaka disaster that killed more than 1,100 garment workers, one private equity fund is trying to infuse new capital into...

It's hard for a company in any of the three countries to know how to calculate the payoffs of sourcing car parts from the US or building a factory in Mexico if, in a just few years, access to those parts or that labor might become a lot more costly if NAFTA collapses and border taxes start soaring.

A man who died when an old church building collapsed in Cardiff has been named as a 55 year old man from the Welsh capital.

From the stairs that led folks up to twin buildings collapsing on a morning where both towers were not even close to normal capacity.

The political and economic system created by the United States and its allies after World War II — a system built around common defense measures and free trade — rescued Europe from the self - inflicted catastrophe of 1914 - 1945, prevented nuclear war, preserved the peace until the collapse of the Soviet empire, and allowed once - captive nations to reclaim their liberties.

In particular, while using, the build - in petals protect it away from collapsing.

Welcoming the promise to make it easier for councils to build council homes, Mr. Dromey added, «Council house building has collapsed from three hundred thousand to three hundred a year in a generation.

But I have to say I'm a bit stunned that Lazio is using footage from the actual attack — and the glowing background of the still - smoldering site behind the shell of one of the towers still standing after both buildings had collapsed.

While other right - wing leaders either deserted the cause or joined the left to profit from its structural advantage (which cleverly used Franco's regime to portray the right as repressive and intrinsically antidemocratic) and Suárez «centre party» was collapsing, Fraga's solitary work from 1977 to 1989 to build a united center - right party recalls Tennyson's final line in Ulysses» monologue: «to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield».

Cuomo's HUD decree led to an explosion in home building and then the financial collapse from which the American economy has yet to recover.

The building collapsed at about 9:30 am on Sunday morning and there were initials fears from neighbours that people might be trapped under the debris.

According to a release from the NIC, the compulsory insurance will cover fire and allied perils like flood, earthquake, the collapse of buildings, storm and as well, legal liabilities of an owner or occupier of premises in respect of loss of or damage to property, bodily injury or death suffered by all users of the premises and third parties.

What Stevenson saw was the partial collapse of an underground concrete flume built in the early 1950s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of a 3,300 - foot system of enclosed flumes and culverts to protect the village from being flooded by Woods Creek.

The backyard of one home is filed with debris from another building that collapsed long ago.

While changes in escape - stair width, firefighter communications systems and the addition of sky bridges (all noted by Lamster) can only improve life safety in tall buildings, they do not prevent structural collapse resulting from fire.

As for how to keep the tunnel walls from collapsing: The spiders studied incorporate silk threads into the tunnel as they build it, so it remains standing even if all the surrounding sand is removed.

The most dramatic instances of damage from the airburst were flying glass and one collapsed building: most of the people who sought medical attention in the aftermath suffered from cuts and bruises.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, desperate Kazakh villagers built a primitive dam out of sand to keep the water that trickled into the northern sea from draining away into the southern portion.

Aside from landslides, many lives were lost in collapsing structures in Nepal, often in homes constructed of rock, brick or concrete, and frequently built without adequate enforcement of building codes, the report suggested.

That's much too big for them to have been built up through the slow mergers of small black holes formed in the conventional way, from collapsed stars a few dozen times the mass of the sun.

Earthquakes simultaneously emit two kinds of energy waves from their epicenters — S - waves, which collapse buildings and rip up the ground, and P - waves, which pack little energy but travel much faster.

I was once asked, during a panel discussion about the future of commercial real estate development, how tall buildings should be designed given what we'd learned from the World Trade Center collapse.

Comets represent the icy planetesimals that are left over building blocks from the collapse of the solar nebula (Figure 11.2).

In some parts of the Arctic, trees, buildings and roadways have started listing to one side, or even collapsing, as soil that was once hard as a rock has softened from the warming that's already taken place.

Besides being the ultimate move for building a huge back and killer legs, the zercher squat will work your core harder than any squat or deadlift variation there is — it's effin» brutal and your core muscles will work like crazy to prevent you from collapsing forward!

First up is Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age Of Ultron, giving us first impressions of Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch, Aaron Taylor - Johnson as Quicksilver, and a shot of Hulk and Black Widow by a collapsing building that looks not unlike something from the climax of Avengers Assembled.

«Independence Day» writer - producer Dean Devlin's directorial debut, «Geostorm,» promises a whole lot of CG - heavy destruction porn in the first trailer released Wednesday: explosions, monster waves, collapsing buildings and bridges, and even a giant airplane falling from a very darkened sky.

As the movie begins, their apartment building is in the middle of collapsing from the vibrations of a nearby construction site, and so they flee for new quarters, eventually taking up residence in a just - vacated flat owned by the manager of their theater company.

We don't start there, however, but instead begin our story in a New York office building, where an unknown middle - aged financier collapses from a heart attack while drinking from a water cooler.

Watch John Cusack dodge giant donuts, collapsing freeways and crashing buildings in this five - minute destuction orgy from 2012.

The planes themselves are never seen; the building collapses shown only from the perspective of those unfortunate enough to be within them.

When the roof over East High School's gymnasium collapsed here last fall, renovating and repairing the crumbling building moved from a short list of priorities to among the Ohio school system's most critical needs.

From a fire safety point of view, many schools that were due for renewal, whose buildings are of the «CLASP» type or similar, are likely to have inherent problems associated with lack of fire stopping or poor fire separation between compartments and voids through which fire can rapidly and unknowingly spread, all of which have in the past led to rapid and sudden collapse of structure in a fire.

After hearing about the collapse of the buildings from another child at the playground, my daughter said about the World Trade Center: «I'm not too upset because it wasn't my favourite building.

The 700 immigrants from those three ships were the first to pass through Ellis Island and into AmericaBut this turned out to be only the first Ellis Island station, because on June 15, 1897 a fire broke out in one of the towers in the main building, and the roof collapsed.

In one scene, the hero was injured by debris falling from a collapsing building, and I wanted to bring in a doctor as a minor character.

Both terrified and excited, Beetle had waded through nests of shredded fabrics, dirty sweaters, blue jeans, and kids» blankets, all culled from the abandoned storefronts and dragged into the basement of one of the collapsed buildings on Main Street.

My attempt to restore this weekly feature on my blog was thwarted a few months into the year by a series of challenging, distressing, exhilarating, and generally overwhelming events — from editing a new speculative fiction anthology to the death of my mother - in - law, from a six - week home renovation to a partial roof collapse at my place of employment that caused 100 - hour work weeks, from caring for a sick bunny (he's better now, thankfully) to building a new website for one of the small - press publishers I work with.

There's no way you can add «build a massive following on Facebook» to your to - do list without eventually collapsing on your desk from lack of sleep.

The only coverage for insects would be for damages that were concealed from view and led to the collapse of the building.

Termite damage isn't covered by renters insurance generally, but if the damage to the structure from the termites is so severe that it causes the building or structure to collapse or partially collapse and damage to your property results, you could have coverage for your property.