Chronicle of a building of houses

Will House Dems risk a rout?

2010-08-19T11:03:00.003-07:00

With Republican prospects looking ever better for this fall, the House Democratic Campaign Committee and the PACs that follow its lead face tough triage decisions: Who will they fund?
Republicans need 39 seats to take away the Democrats' majority, so the temptation is to focus on protecting the weakest seats. But protecting a House majority is becoming more unrealistic -- so what should the party do? Will it mount a goal-line stand and pour funds into its weakest 39 races -- or tacitly concede the House, back up and defend the seats it can win?

By moving resources out of the races where they're weakest, Democrats would be swallowing a bitter pill by admitting that Nancy Pelosi's days as House speaker are numbered. But if they focus their funds and manpower on the most endangered seats, they may well let slip away dozens more seats that they might have defended successfully.
Futile efforts to protect a disappearing majority could lead to a loss of 60 to 80 seats, where a more prudent allocation of resources might hold the damage to 50 seats.
Condemning those dozens of "extra" Democrats to defeat would deny the Democrats the incumbents on whom they'd need to build a future majority -- opening the door to a longterm GOP majority.
Take Virginia, for example: Three House Democrats are facing tough re-election races there -- and one is as good as gone. In Charlottesville, freshman Democrat Tom Perriello is running more than 20 points behind his GOP challenger, Robert Hurt. In Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Glenn Nye is slightly behind his Republican opponent, Scott Rigells. In the southwestern part of the state, longterm incumbent Rick Boucher still leads his GOP challenger, Morgan Griffith -- but the Republican could well come on and win.
So where should the Dems put their money? They'll probably need both the Perriello and Nye seats to keep their majority. But if they put funds there, they won't have enough left to protect Boucher.
So do they endanger Boucher to try to protect Nye and Perriello, or fall back and make sure solider incumbents like Boucher win -- even if it means virtually guaranteeing a loss of their majority by giving up on the Nye and Perriello seats?
The GOP math is different: If strategists conclude that the Nyes and the Perriellos of this Congress are goners and devote their resources to true swing seats like Boucher's, the Republicans vying for the Nye and Perriello seats will still attract all the money they need from opportunists eager to fund their winning campaigns.
As November approaches, watch how the Dems allocate their resources. It'll soon be evident if they're attempting a desperation defense of those 39 seats or if they're falling back to protect what they can.
Falling back would be an admission of defeat. But the desperate defense could transform a defeat into a rout.

Newport News house goes up in flames

2010-08-19T11:03:00.001-07:00

A vacant house in Newport News was badly damaged by fire early Wednesday.
Firefighters arrived on 29th Street around 2:00 a.m. and found the building in flames.
During the firefight, the roof collapsed.
No one was hurt.
The cause of the fire is under investigation and will take some time due to the extensive damage, fire officials stated.
Damage is estimated at about $38,000, authorities added.

Architecture council under CBI scanner over affiliations

2010-08-17T11:02:00.000-07:00

The CBI has tightened the noose around the Council of Architecture (CoA) — an apex body of professional architects — which has been accused of granting affiliations to institutions and courses without any authority. On Friday, the agency conducted raids in Goa and Delhi and seized documents related to unauthorized affiliations granted to several courses and institutes in India.

The raid in Goa was carried out at Vidya Vardhan’s Institute of Design, Environment and Architecture, whose director V S Sohoni is also the president of CoA. Sohoni is alleged to have violated various guidelines of the central government in running CoA, a national level autonomous body recognized by the Union government. CBI had last year received a letter from the HRD ministry, after which a preliminary investigation was launched.

“COA is similar to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India where professionals need to register themselves. It has no right to give recognition to courses or colleges. We have found several such cases where CoA’s name was used to grant recognition. Sohoni’s college in Goa is also one of the institutes where students were given false representation,” said a CBI official.

“We are probing all such colleges and institutions which have been given affiliation during the tenure of Sohoni, who has been the head of COA since 2004.The documents seized have been sent for forensic examination. The role of other officials of COA is also under scanner and nationwide raids are being carried out to unearth the entire scam. We’ve come to know during investigation that in many cases, the council did not even seek approval of the ministry in decision-making,” the official added.

When contacted by TOI, Sohoni refused to comment, saying that the matter was sub-judice. The power to recognize a course or institute is vested with the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) only.

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Architecture program will pay off in South Dakota

2010-08-14T10:57:00.000-07:00

Beginning this school year, students at South Dakota State University will be able to earn a degree in architecture. Believe it or not, it will be the first accredited architecture program in the state.

Architecture is an important industry in South Dakota. There are at least 80 licensed architects in the state, according to the South Dakota Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and dozens of more associate architects.

But until now, South Dakota high school graduates who wanted to study architecture needed to leave the state to earn an accredited degree. And we're certain that some South Dakotans who went to Montana State, Tulane, Nebraska or Arizona State probably didn't return to their home state after graduation.

So practicing architects in the state started working with SDSU to change that. Starting a new program like this takes a lot of time and money, but that didn't deter the architects. The new program offers a bachelor's degree in architectural studies after four years and a master's degree after six.

We think there are lots of opportunities in the architecture field. While the nationwide construction boom peaked a couple of years ago, there are still great possibilities in South Dakota, which includes not only new building design and construction, but renovation, landscape architecture and, perhaps the hottest field, "green" architecture. We know a Sioux Falls architect who is working to help rebuild Haiti after the tragic earthquake there in January.

Fire Breaks Out in Jersey City Building

2007-10-10T12:12:00.001-07:00

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A fire broke out Monday night near the top of a high-rise luxury condominium building under construction, prompting evacuations and disrupting light rail service close to the heart of the city's financial district.

There were no reports of injuries.

Dozens of firefighters battled the blaze at the 18-story building, which began in an elevator well between the 17th and 18th floors. The cause was not immediately known.

Firefighters had trouble reaching the fire, partly because the building's standpipe, or source of water, was activated only up to the 14th floor, said Fire Director Armando Roman.

The fire was declared under control shortly before 1 a.m., but firefighters expected to be at the scene for hours longer until pockets of fire inside the building could be extinguished.

Service on the Hudson Bergen Light Rail line was disrupted and police said an area of several blocks around the fire scene would be closed to vehicular traffic on Tuesday morning.

Flames could be seen across the Hudson River in Manhattan. The fire quickly accelerated, feeding on lumber being used to frame interior areas of the upper floors.

The building's steel and concrete construction helped limit most of the damage to the two upper floors and the building itself was in no danger of collapse. Occupancy is slated for the summer of 2009.

Weir Valves buys Ipswich building

2007-10-10T12:08:00.000-07:00

Weir Valves & Controls USA bought an Ipswich manufacturing building for $6.74 million after it considered building a new manufacturing plant in North Carolina, a broker involved in the transaction said.

The broker is Klemmer Associates LLC, a Winchester-based commercial real estate firm.

Weir, a subsidiary of Glasgow-based Weir Group PLC, plans to move out of its existing facilities in Salem to larger, more modern space in Ipswich around January, Greg Klemmer of Klemmer Associates said.

The seller of a manufacturing building with 106,897 square feet of space is Kortec Inc., a supplier of co-injection systems; Kortec plans to remain in a portion of the building as a tenant, Klemmer Associates said.

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2007-06-17T03:27:00.000-07:00

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What actually makes a consultant?

2007-05-03T10:19:00.001-07:00

Since on Tuesday the kitchen company comes to the air passage, I checked today already times. With the fact I noticed that the parapet wall height of the windows is only times at each window different and is too high particularly in the kitchen the window 2cm. Since however the sill plate into the window cutout are to project, now the no more does not fold. Property naturally equal a notice of defects to the builder gefaxt and defect removal demanded. At the same time I inquired with the consultant, what so its task is actually. See times, when it answers.

Laminate sampling

2007-05-03T10:18:00.003-07:00

As already expects, the selection did not fail too largely. The painter had approx. 10 different samples also. Since we had already decided with the internal doors for beech, the choice went having very much fast and we also here again to beech seized.

Laminate

2007-05-03T10:18:00.001-07:00

For this evening floor-casually for sampling the laminate soil to us home announced. Is naturally very comfortable, however the selection will probably not be so large. If I am not bad in addition, the Enscheidung falls more easily…

There neither the drying farmer nor the Putzer were.

2007-05-03T10:16:00.000-07:00

There neither the drying farmer nor the Putzer were.
But the Gesimmskasten was already nearly finished, when I arrived at the house. , But becomes also time had not been announced that the roof becomes finally correctly close. Capers become I the box probably again, is only primed.

Before the stand is diminished, I made also once again a snapshot on our property. If I imagine the whole (garden) work, which comes there still to us, becomes also not better me.

Dry construction

2007-05-03T10:15:00.000-07:00

Today it would have to actually continue with the dry construction and the external plaster. Times it sees who there this afternoon everything is (was). Since Antje has freely, she has to negotiate order with drying farmer about the range the hitting a corner bath tub. There some is to become differently than planned.
Credit now also noticed that the window sills are inside VERY narrow, the outside against it more than twice as broadly like the inside. Is that standard?

Screed

2007-05-03T10:14:00.002-07:00

… one does not mix naturally in the bucket. Heut early 8,00 o'clock came the screed company with the appropriate technology. It would however not have thought that he is only touched locally.

Yesterday the inspection report of the district chimney sweep over the acceptance of the chimney, equal the calculation came enclosed naturally over 50, - EUR. It appeared still thus to 11.07 nevertheless sometime.
Had however in minutes still three things to criticize:
1. The chimney is too low. It must exceed mindesten 40cm over the roof roofridge.
Seems however to be already settled, the chimney sweep has it probably equal that
present roofers said.
2. It must become secured in the roof with special mounting material.
3. According to the vehicle identification plate no solid fuels may be used. The pipe sees
but actually so out, as if it can do that. Thus probably only wrong sign.

Property of everything skillfully to Domus, construction supervisor is to worry drum.

Heut afternoon was then the screed already finished. Pictures are from Saturday.

Screed

2007-05-03T10:14:00.001-07:00

According to statement of the building leader today or tomorrow the screed is to come. Heut afternoon directly times to clean-look. Property also equivalent still in demand whether in the place of the zukünfigen fire-place no screed comes. (See picture down, left in the back in the corner) answer: No. To this place “full concrete” comes.
Before the house a large mountain sand or the like with a delivery note of a screed company lies. Is that touched things in the bucket?

Under-floor heating

2007-05-03T10:11:00.000-07:00

The heating engineer are finished with the floor insulation, is completely beautifully thick man.

Yesterday they then still called afternoon me, where the distributor for the heating was. This morning we specified then with a suburb date that it comes directly beside the warm water boiler. Is completely beautifully large, 70x70x15 determines.
To it nobody has thought when planning amusing-proves. The washing machine angedachte for this place must move now somewhat forward toward door.

This afternoon the heating was then already shifted completely.

External plaster

2007-05-03T10:09:00.000-07:00

As already expects, the first layer of the external plaster was applied really yesterday.

The interior plaster is and the heater company with the isolation of the floor began.

again Saturday

2007-04-17T04:42:00.002-07:00

The Putzer were today really already 07,00 o'clock there and the interior plaster also finished got. Up to a few little things they are really finished, must clear up this Riesensauerei only. As it looks, they will directly continue however with the external plaster, although according to construction period planning only the ends of the monthly to would be.

Monday can loose-go it then with the under-floor heating. To those we look forward already enormous, where my wife is so a frost boil nevertheless (probably all women). Cold feet have I in the winter also always…
Property with eBay a trailer for 200, - EUR ersteigert and it today in Berlin fetched. 520kg additional load become I with the external area surely still well to use can.

The Putzer

2007-04-17T04:42:00.001-07:00

there are. Credit of its boss the instruction to become finished until Saturday. Is ne completely beautiful Sauerei,

Well or no?

2007-04-17T04:41:00.000-07:00

Putzer did not come because of a machine damage nevertheless yet, me however promised yesterday that it loose-goes today.

Property with neighbour to talk know. With 6m the first water, since their it was however “too little”, came has it to 23m further-bores to leave. In addition, no more waters became. That means thus, with approx. 10m I might come. Am I to let one bore now or nevertheless dear cistern? The price is approximately the same.

Whether the roofers became finished, I cannot at all say so exactly. Still slats lie on the roof and roof stones on the stand. In any case ones will have to clear up it once again.

Before and in the house one cleared up now beautifully properly. Nothing more rum and the place for the silo of the Putzer lie are also clean.

Roofers became nevertheless not finished yesterday

2007-04-17T04:40:00.000-07:00

Roofers became nevertheless not finished yesterday. Although they worked to 16,30 o'clock, nevertheless still some is to be done. It would not have thought that in addition, it was to hold so complex actual a while.

Tomorrow geht's with the interior plaster loosely. But silo with a surface area must be set up by 3,5 x 3.5 m. Fortunately is enough place before the house, so that they do not have into the garden with the thing.

Property straight with construction supervisor called, why the Gesimmskasten is not yet to, actually should have passed roof decks before that. It wants to worry drum. How often it is the construction supervisor actually locally that he did not notice that yet, are now already 2 weeks ago, which should have been the box to!

Chimney sweeps bring luck…

2007-04-17T04:39:00.002-07:00

of because of…
Today “against 08.00 o'clock” had a date with the district chimney sweep for acceptance of the chimney. 09,30 o'clock I then by the building site said good-bye and to the roofers answer, if the chimney sweep still emerges, are it said it please in the house to leave.
I call that times service, but with their of the state provided monopoly, sit at the longer lever…

And they work nevertheless on Saturday.

2007-04-17T04:39:00.001-07:00

Whereupon addressed they said only: “We do not work always Samstag's. for it make we from Monday to Friday anything ”

There roof stones are.

2007-04-17T04:38:00.000-07:00

Were supplied with to roof stone nevertheless already last night at 20.00 o'clock. Are not however black and antrahzit, as orders. Me gefällt's in addition. The roofers have probably nevertheless no desire, on Saturday to work… It is strained whether nevertheless already today one covers up.

Again a step further

2007-04-17T04:34:00.000-07:00

The electricians are finished, plumbers also.

Now it is called sampling the finery and the house color, gotten on Friday the tables of samples.
The chimney is now also finished, the district chimney sweep comes on Monday to the acceptance.

The roofers continued also finally. The Lattung is now complete, and the roof drainage (speak gutters) are to. The roof stones come on Friday and velvet day are then to be covered up. It is strained whether really Saturday one works…

With the neighbour the well became completely, it will times ask, how was deeply bored. Would like a well for the garden irrigation, a question of the price is natural.

Bell?

2007-04-17T04:32:00.000-07:00

Key has itself angefunden, comes thus finally again into MY house.
Yesterday now the electricity installation went loosely. Despite lengthy planning the electrician had locally still another quantity of questions, e.g.: Is 'ne bell intended? - Had however already a box inserted… Further questions: Height of the kitchen (kitchen plan), distance of the doses from the walls out, place for the satellite mirror and the ventilation in the bath and and and…

Also “gas/water/Sch…” already trade ELT has. The dry construction construction for wash basins and Kloschüssel are already installed. The water pipelines are all only so thin plastic or flexopneu hoses!

Excluded

2007-04-13T04:29:00.000-07:00

On Friday all windows and Terassentüren as well as the window boards were inserted. Antjes desire accordingly was planned a window board as „flower window “and is nearly twice as broad like the others.

Into the Eingangstüre a door leaf from plywood was built. And we have still no key! Me today for one will care.
The waste water pit was dug and the revision pit was set. If not straight is beautiful, one has however little influence drauf, since this lies directly before the house discharge.

The roofers come

2007-04-04T10:22:00.000-07:00

The inner walls are nearly finished

develops

2007-04-04T10:20:00.000-07:00

Roof framing

2007-04-04T10:16:00.000-07:00

08,30 o'clock beginning sets up roof framing

10,00 o'clock finished also sets up, crane away
16,00 o'clock arranging celebration, approx. 50 building workers and guests, was really beautifulThe meal came from the lock hotel Schkopau and was really lecker.

further pictures

2007-04-04T10:09:00.000-07:00

Chronicle of a building of houses 4

2007-04-04T09:56:00.000-07:00

Attention for all Häuslebauer: Price for evacuation/disposal overburden
Times inquire and several offers catch up - is not cheap really!
27,05 low farmer surface completely taken off, 14 containers, excavation, backfilling begun with freeze protection gravel
31.05. Base plate poured, 5 concrete mixers

03.06. Stones delivered, for boarding from base plate removes

called and informed that the wrong stones were supplied, it wants to worry 04.06. 10,00 o'clock Domus drum06.06. Wasseranschluss opened07.06. new stones supplied, carcass begins, water provisionally put on

Chronicle of a building of houses 3

2007-04-04T09:54:00.000-07:00

01.04. Call notary - by 31.03. still nothing with the land register office received
Call insolvency manager - is to 29.03. raus
04.04. Call land register office - rewriting of one into other company is present, release from insolvency mass is missing however still
05.04. Fax at director of the district court Merseburg with request for assistance
Call insolvency manager - release at land register office goes today still raus, lies however
actually the Notarin forwards
08.04. Answer by director Amtsgericht Merseburg: after its opinion everything i.O.
09.04. Parents-in-law building of houses gebeichtet
11.04. Call of notaries, still nothing new, land register office sat down directly with insolvency court in connection and waits now for release of this
Call land register office, insolvency court and - managers already previous week written down, up to now still no reaction
Call Insolenzverwalter - copy of the release is not sufficient land register office, insolvency managers sits down tomorrow morning directly with insolvency court in connection tries clarifying
13.04. Call with the insolvency manager, has with land register office contact taken up, now is clear as and into which Forma the land register office which wishes, tomorrow sits down insolvency managers with insolvency court in connection, insolvency court must only release of properties at land register office send
15.04. Antje calls confirmation of the rewriting with insolvency manager, land register office and notary, arrived in the land register on GmbH not yet on insolvency court, afterwards release takes place via this
21,04 Antje calls with insolvency manager, letter should with the insolvency court be, recommends however there not “to nerves”
23,04 complaint of supervision of service at insolvency court Hamburg because of
“impudent” occurrence and kidnapping
25.04. Call with land register office, EVERYTHING THERE! - became except our property
“selected” forget - hectars, hectar
26.04. Complaint of supervision of service insolvency court because of “inadvertently
Schusslichkeit "
28.04. Remainder also there - goes nevertheless
19,05 building Rome requests
23,05 commencement of construction measurement there, thread stand placed building firm there, foundation engineering company with MIDEWA request continues to fill out there, only, then geht's
25.05 12,00 o'clock date with low farmer locally for arrangement overburden and surface soil: o'clock calls 13,30, beginning not today, but tomorrow zw. 9.00-10.00 o'clock
26.05 09,15 o'clock locally, low farmer appears 10,20 o'clock offer
Overburden disposal, preparation terrace

Chronicle of a building of houses 2

2007-04-04T09:53:00.001-07:00

04.01.05 call: DKB rejected
05.01. Financial office Mueller called, date agrees
07.01. Date financial office Mueller, Übergabe documents
10.01. Date Debeka because of financing
12.01. “ÖSA” because of insurance there, also still on financing set
13.01. Call financial office Mueller, Finanzierung stands
14.01. Bank documents in the office Mueller fetched
03.02. Land charge entry with the notary requested, agreement insolvency manager is missing still
07.02. Chimney oven with rake bought, sill plate for kitchen with furniture Walther changed
08.02. Info. of notary, permission of insolvency manager there, land charge order goes today by post office raus
Letter of COMPANY Dessau to the purchase of land (property - house)
01.05. Call with notary, where land charge order remains. Contract must once again of the insolvency manager with the notary will sign. Call at municipality whether release took place. Answer: No, documents of the notary are missing. With notary called, wants to worry.
02.05. Call with notary: Problem with municipality clarified. Board of works Schkopau says however that release cannot give you yet.
Because of insolvency managers still costs can come to us
03.05. Cash municipality Schkopau: Municipality needs release of
Insolvency manager. Comment of the notaries: on our property no cautionary mortgage
07.05. With the notary nothing arrived.
08,05 Antje with the mayor von Schkopau: Property is released tomorrow
09.05. Fax of municipality Schkopau, release gives
09.05. Call with notary, still no release of the insolvency court Hamburg, to
16.05. once again call
16.05. Call with notary, still no release of the insolvency court Hamburg there
17.05. Call with insolvency court Hamburg, this not responsibly, but
Insolvency manager, insolvency manager called, bla, bla, bla
18.03. Insolvency manager (representative) called, for your part all into the ways led, insolvency court rear spar must become now with district court MQ united, property owners must once again the Notarin, wanted this already previous week make
21.03.Notar called - nothing new
Land register office called - wait for report of the insolvency court
Insolvency court called - wait for preparatory work of the insolvency manager
Insolvency manager - requested preparatory work does not admit, sets themselves directly with insolvency court in connection insolvency managers called - put and sends necessary letter on called it directly to the land register office

Chronicle of a building of houses

2007-04-04T09:49:00.000-07:00

06.11. Sample house visits
07.11. House inspection “green house”
09.11. Architect “green house” with us
10.11. Discussion financing
11.11. Conception building contractor “Gutsell” in Ermlitz
12.11. “Town & Country” because of bad criticisms in the Internet called off
12.11. Financial adviser BHW with us
13.11. House inspection
14.11. Info. discussion “Bien Zenker”
16.11. Discussion financing
16.11. Consultation heat pump “heat” with us
17.11. Consultation with architect “building concept”
18.11. Building advisor “domicile” with us
19.11. Inquiry at board of works Schkopau because of B-plan
22.11. Consultation financing financial office Mueller
24.11. Consultation heat pump “Terraterm” with us
06.12. Building advisor “Rothkegel” with us
07.12. Financing discussion with “competent specialists” called off
11.12. Consultation “Domus” in Leipzig
16.12. Signature property with the notary in Merseburg
27.12. Purchase of the installation kitchen with furniture walter
27.12. Financial adviser because of signatures with us, DKB assured
30.12. Call DKB bank: Credit in danger, announces itself in 1. January week again

light stones

2007-04-04T09:47:00.000-07:00

Stone weighed: 12kg, should actually weigh 15kg

District chimney sweeps called, at present not there, afternoon once again tryBoard of works called, necessarily for the arranging celebration no suburb dateLower water authority called, request for Verrieselung informally, request for wells in the Internet