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Sealed drainage cover.
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67599067 The Garisenda Tower in Bologna, which leans significantly, has been sealed off due to fears of collapse, with a 5m high barrier being…
Link: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pensioner-80-left-live-room-28595422 An 80-year-old woman, Sheila Sneddon, was left living in a room where asbestos was found after a British Gas engineer replaced her boiler,…
Link: https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/carillions-botched-earthworks-blamed-for-fatal-stonehaven-derailment-10-03-2022/ Carillion’s poorly executed drainage construction has been identified as the cause of the Stonehaven train derailment in August 2020, which resulted in three…
A party wall comprising semi-hollow concrete blocks. Poorly sealed in places.
Link: https://theconversation.com/heatwaves-five-reasons-why-victorian-houses-are-cooler-than-modern-buildings-283934 The article argues that many Victorian houses stay cooler in heatwaves than modern buildings because they were designed around passive cooling, even though…
