Sentences with phrase «school buildings collapsed»
I would think, with the widespread loss of life, that far more than school buildings collapsed.
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The collapse poses a headache for Theresa May's government, which had employed Carillion to work on 450 projects including the building and maintenance of hospitals, schools, defence sites and a high - speed rail line.
We send most poor students of color to school in collapsing buildings.
And they will not reverse the damage done by two years of deep cuts to long - term projects like house building and the school building programme which have seen a collapse in the construction sector.»
But there is persistent concern about the quality of some of the construction and this is because, local officials sometimes take bribes and allow construction companies to build things below standard and so we have a situation in the Sichuan province where the earthquake occurred, where schools were collapsing and collapsed at a much greater rate than other government buildings and the suspicion is of course that local officials have taken bribes and allowed the schools to be built this way.
It followed two schools in his constituency, Calder High and Todmorden High, both missing out on funding under phase two if the Priority School Building Programme earlier this year — despite problems with gas leaks, sewer collapses and asbestos.
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 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 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.
Phyllida Barlow has had an important career as a teacher at the Slade School of Art, and now concentrates on elaborate constructions that exploit everyday building materials to create sculptural installations that embody time, weight, balance and collapse.
The mangled steel covering the gallery's floor is repurposed from collapsed school buildings after China's 2008 earthquake.
Men build the frames for classrooms to replace a Port - au - Prince school that collapsed in the earthquake.
Whereas according to a 2007 Department of Geology and Mineral Industries study, there are, over 1,000 school buildings in Oregon subject to partial or total collapse in a large earthquake,
Whereas today is the one year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Szechwan China where more than 10,000 school children were killed in collapsed school buildings,
I think that the real issue here is whether there have been some corruption cases where some officials and construction builders had some back - door deals that compromised the safety standards for those collapsed school buildings and residential apartment buildings.
The images [below] show students killed when a poorly built school collapsed in Sichuan Province in 2008.
(A Haitian school collapsed under its own weight in November 2008, illustrating that basic lapses in building practices are widespread in poor countries.)
Yumei Wang, who leads Oregon's effort to cut risks from inevitable earthquakes, pointed me to news from Japan that more than 7,300 school buildings in that country face «a high risk of collapse» in a strong earthquake.
According to The Japan Times, the number of school buildings at risk of collapse declined by 3,347 from the previous year.
In the same block where buildings held the schools collapsed.
It appears that at least one hospital and a school — two of the keystone structures in any community — are among the buildings that collapsed, along with dozens of shanties built on steep slopes.
The article said the ministry had pledged to make 16,000 school buildings quake - resistant in the current fiscal year and planned to eliminate school structures at risk of collapse by March 2011.
A section of the roof at one of the buildings at Hill School in Pottstown had collapsed, taking down 47 - year - old Sensenig and his coworker down with it.