Sentences with phrase «water damage to the building»

What if there is water damage to the building?

Not exact matches

The Bennett Dam built by BC on the Peace River has done huge actual damage to one of the largest fresh water deltas in the world (The Peace — Athabasca Delta, UNESCO World Heritage Site).

They said changes to the shore could impact the interpretive center, and placing a building so close to the water could lead to structural damage.

The Town Water Department, ServiceMaster of Albany, Crown Point Telephone Co. and town maintenance workers all pitched in to clean up the building and repair the damage, he said.

In 2006, the firm settled with Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to fix water damage and structural defects in a Harlem building, and three years later BFC was in court defending itself against a lawsuit by condo owners in Williamsburg who alleged defective design.

Never mind the water damage to the living quarters of some buildings.

The groups estimate only three and a half million dollars of the five hundred and eleven million dollar loan requested would actually go to preserving clean water, and they say some of that money would be used to offset damage to water purity caused by building the bridge in the first place.

Building out the clean energy system will create 4 1/2 million jobs in our state over the next 15 years, far beyond the most outlandish job projections by the fracking industry, but without the costs to air, land, water, and climate and without the damage to existing industries, including agriculture, tourism, and all manufacturers and other businesses that depend on clean water.

According to the town engineer, it would cost about $ 750,000 to mothball the building, including making the heating system operational to prevent damage to finishes and utilities already installed, draining water and blowing out the plumbing system to prevent broken pipes, completing the exterior finish to maintain the waterproofing already in place and finishing the roof.

As NRC staff noted during the Fukushima emergency, when there was concern that the spent - fuel pool at Unit 4 may have lost its cooling water as well as been damaged by the reactor building explosion, adding cold water to already hot fuel can create a problem in its own right.

Prolonged afterslip could delay post-earthquake recovery by continuing to cause damage to critical infrastructure built across the fault such as rapid transit and utilities, said Lienkaemper, who noted that better forecasts of afterslip «can be used to plan temporary and final repairs to rapid transit tracks, water, gas and data lines.»

UTMB officials said that although none of the buildings on campus suffered any structural damage, many were inundated with 1 to 1.3 meters of water.

Some float or swim through pools that have formed in the building's bowels because of the constant need to inject water to cool the damaged cores.

Marine researchers are facing «substantial» water damage to one of two major laboratory buildings at the University of Texas (UT) Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, according to Communications Coordinator Sally Palmer.

They range from improving earthquake forecasting and developing early - warning systems to understanding how to increase the resistance of existing buildings to damage and how to preserve electricity and water infrastructure.

If emergency systems — stairs, water pipes, elevators, phone lines — are clustered in a compact core, as they usually are in tall buildings, damage to the core means damage to all the systems.

Less than a fifth of the building suffered severe structural damage and had to be demolished, another fifth was affected by water and smoke; the rest was undamaged.

They also want to make more forays into attributing actual impacts, like heat - related deaths and infrastructure damage, but that takes building partnerships between different disciplines, such as water management and epidemiology, which takes time.

The building's extensive water damage, cracking walls, falling plaster, and dry rot was unsafe, the board said, calling for a $ 2 - million bond referendum to pay for the needed repairs.

Whether the current roof is allowing water into the building, causing damage, or an upgrade is due to enhance thermal performance and reduce energy bills, choosing to embark on a roof refurbishment can have very positive results.

There is no need to document each and every hazard that exists, but you should think about the likelihood and effects of, ice, snow, excessive water and high winds, and the effect of these, e.g. tree and branch falls, excessive leaf fall in walkways and damage to buildings.

Custodial crews arrived at the building on Thursday and were able to mop up the water, preventing any major structural damage to the floors, Ates said.

If there's a fire several doors down, you could be impacted by the smoke and water damage, or by the inability to get into the building due to the fire.

Due to fire, smoke, and water damage, an entire wing of the building is uninhabitable and most of the contents are beyond repair.

The proximate cause of a loss is the thing nearest to it, such as water from a fire hose damaging the building.

The other people who live in that building have suffered smoke damage, water damage, holes cut in their roof for ventilation that may lead to additional water damage, and a host of other ills as a result of this fire.

While the majority of the damage will be to the building's structure, if winds or water enter your unit, it can mean thousands of dollars in property damage.

Therefore, you could be responsible for damage to and replacement of any personal property, the condo's floors and walls, electrical fixtures and appliances, water heaters and filters, built - in fixtures, and window treatments.

The policy sold by the landlord covered damage to the building from smoke, water, fire, and explosion.

But if you're responsible for damage to the building, from a fire or water damage caused by your negligence, you're responsible to pay back the landlord's insurance company.

In other words, water damage that you cause to another unit in the building could be covered even if it's not covered for your unit.

Those circumstances include damage to the building on Falls Road caused by a fallen tree, resulting in «severe water damage and mold, furthering the delay in construction.»

My glowing sense of pride was somewhat damaged, though, when a savage meteor shower rained down deathly pain by consistently annihilating the pipes carrying water and oxygen to the domes, and since I hadn't been smart enough to build in redundancies into everything my colony began to crumble.

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«I think it is unwise to assume water will never get into a structure,» Cotterell says, pointing out that no construction is perfect, and as the years go by, all buildings suffer damage and ageing.

Before occupants of buildings affected by water damage can safely return to their homes, they have to wait until the walls have completely dried out.

In recent years, the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP in Stuttgart has carried out a large number of experimental tests to investigate the drying behavior of wall, floor and ceiling structures with artificially induced water damage.

And don't forget the benefits arise from avoiding big problems, like scarcer water resources, damages to human - built environment; coastal flooding due to sea - level rise, and human - health impacts.

Water may become less scarce in regions that get more precipitation, but more precipitation will probably also increase flood risk; it may also raise the groundwater table, which could lead to damage to buildings and other infrastructure or to reduced agricultural productivity due to wet soils or soil salinization.

Buildings damaged during hurricanes are especially susceptible to water intrusion.

Increased saltwater encroachment and damage to water and waste infrastructure not built to withstand saltwater exposure

It would do you well to check up on why wet - lands need to be dried and flooded on a regular basis... the inflow of sediments and the build - up of toxic algaes and nitrous and associated elements in wetlands demand attention be paid to flush these systems out at regular intervals... you may remember the damaging blooms of blue - green algae back some years ago because of a sudden release into the river system of infected stored - water.

Instead, they paint a stark picture of rising temperatures causing floods and wildfires, food and water shortages, damage to human health, and widespread disruption of services and destruction of roads, railways bridges and buildings.

They are recognizing, too, that some changes to roads and buildings can wait for a future renovation, and they may prohibit building new roads or homes close to the water because rebuilding after future storm damage will be prohibitively expensive.

While the action may be understandably focused on measures directly related to storm survival of our built environment from wind and flood damage, systemic failures of water, transportation, power and other services — legislative efforts thus far have focused on the symptoms of our problems and not the root causes.

«Given that the UK are under immense pressure to build more homes year on year, any improved initiatives which might lead to measures during the construction phase to improve or reduce the impact on the environment and help mitigate flood damage, particularly from surface water run - off has to be a good idea.

The other people who live in that building have suffered smoke damage, water damage, holes cut in their roof for ventilation that may lead to additional water damage, and a host of other ills as a result of this fire.

Like your home, your business is susceptible to numerous kinds of water damage, not all of which are included in your commercial building insurance.

Homeowner: * Discount will be applied to each of Building, Contents, Additional Living Expense and the following endorsements: Weight of ice, snow or sleet — Ice Damming — Roof Water Damage, Sewer Back - Up and Domestic Fuel Oil Escape.

We will pay the cost to tear out any part of the insured building if necessary to repair damage caused by covered water, liquid, powder or molten material damage.