The Building
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| First episode date | August 20, 1993 |
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| Final episode date | September 17, 1993 |
| Networks | CBS |
| Creators | Bonnie Hunt |
| Sep 10, 1993 | |
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| ID | 2315944 |
About The Building
A struggling Chicago actress lives in a building full of colorful characters.
Shea Ryan: Mother to sue firm over boy's manhole death
... " The court heard The Building site was close to a playpark but it was only secured by a single fence which had been vandalised in the past and breached on six occasions...
Evacuation of Barton House forecast to cost £3. 5m
... The costs for Bristol City Council are expected to significantly increase if surveys show The Building remains unsafe for residents to return to...
House prices edge higher as signs mortgage rates will fall
... The Building society said financial markets estimated interest rates had peaked and would start to come down, easing affordability pressures...
Pressure grows for ban on new leasehold flats
... " Baroness Penn, a junior minister in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, told peers reforming leasehold for flats was " inherently more complicated" than for houses as they required an arrangement to facilitate management of The Building...
Bristol Beacon: Former Colston Hall reopens after name change and £132m rebuild
... " We did have to shut for three weeks because a baby seagull got into the roof void and dislodged a whole load of asbestos, " says Louis Mitchell, chief executive of the Bristol Music Trust, which runs The Building...
How the Elgin Marbles scream injustice for most Greeks
... Inside The Building, the outline of missing parts of the Parthenon are highlighted - along with an explanation of where they currently reside...
The Laird of Tomintoul: £5m police fraudster who lorded over village
... " " He started here with the Clockhouse, which was formerly a village shop, and completely gutted The Building from roof to basement, " Mr McPherson added...
Indo-Chinese cuisine makes a splash in US dining
... " On his tour, Mr Neogi shows participants The Building which housed the first posh restaurant - Nanking - in the 1920s...
Grenfell: Gove says government guidance partly to blame for fire
By Christy CooneyBBC News
Flawed government guidance on building standards was partly to blame for the Grenfell Tower Fire , Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said.
He believes The System of regulation was " faulty and ambiguous" and not policed properly by the government.
Mr Gove said there was also an " active willingness" on the part of developers to endanger lives for profit.
The Inquiry into the 2017 Fire - in which 72 people died - has closed and is expected to report later this year.
A final hearing in November was told of " weak" building controls and failures of government as well as " cynical" and " possibly dishonest practices" within The Building industry.
The government had previously of technical advice that had been criticised for not making clear that combustible cladding panels should not be used on tall buildings.
Asked in an interview with whether he now accepts the guidance was wrong, Gove said: " Yes. The government did not think hard enough, or police effectively enough, the whole system of building safety. "
He added that ambiguity in the guidance " allowed unscrupulous people to exploit a broken system in a way that led to tragedy".
The Inquiry that some of the companies involved in a 2015 refurbishment of The Tower knew, or should have known, that the cladding being installed was flammable and not safe for use on tall buildings.
Richard Millett KC, lead counsel for The Inquiry , told The Panel it should conclude " with confidence" that all 72 deaths resulting from The Fire were " avoidable".
Mr Gove drew a distinction between " sins of omission and sins of commission" suggesting that, while the government was guilty of the former, some developers were guilty of the latter.
" There is an active willingness to put people in danger in order to make a profit, which To My mind is a significantly greater sin, " He Said .
Mr Millett also accused some of the companies who gave evidence to The Inquiry of " indulging in a merry-go-round of blame" so as to " minimise their own exposure to legal liability".
The government has begun introducing a series of measures intended to force developers to they manage or face being blocked from accessing funding or building new homes.
Source of news: bbc.com
