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SINGAPORE: Starting January this year, only certified renovation workers are allowed to carry out demolition works in HDB flats.

To be certified, contractors will have to send their workers for a safety course organised by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) and the Building and Construction Authority (BCA).

HDB said the course was introduced in June 2013 to train workers to avoid renovation pitfalls which could damage flats.

It said the number of illegal demolition cases has remained low over the years. However, a single incident could affect the stability of an entire building.

So those who want to give their flats a festive makeover, for instance, will now have to check if the proposed demolition works are allowed under government regulations.

For example, structures such as those bolded in black in a floor plan, typically cannot be demolished.

But to the layman, it can be a challenge to tell which structures can be removed.

Wong Kok Hwa, deputy director (maintenance management) at HDB, said: "Most of the flat owners may not be able to recognise which walls are structural walls and cannot be tampered with. So our advice to flat owners is that they have to seek HDB's approval before they carry out any demolition works."

HDB said such walls and columns support the building, and removing them may affect the stability of the entire block.

Contractors caught doing so may have their registrations suspended or cancelled, and disqualified for a maximum period of five years.

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Demolition crews began tearing down the Deseret Chemical Depot, which was responsible for destroying almost half of the nation's chemical stockpile. The first building to go down was the Office of International Treaty Inspectors Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 in Tooele.

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TOOELE A demolition crew has begun tearing down the U.S. Army's chemical weapons incinerator complex in Utah.

The plant has finished the job it was built for two decades ago: destroying almost half the nation's stockpile of chemical weapons, mostly rockets and artillery shells loaded with deadly mustard and nerve agents.

In Tooele County, there are mixed feelings regret that more than 1,000 jobs have disappeared at the Deseret Chemical Depot and relief that the nasty chemicals are gone for good.

The first building to bite the dust Thursday was the office used by treaty inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The inspectors came to Utah over the years to keep an eye on the Army's huge incinerator complex.

"(They) had remote monitors to view the operations that took place and verified that we destroyed the weapons that were stored here, said Gary McCloskey, general manager of URS, the company contracted by the Army to operate the incinerator complex.

Between 1996 and 2013, the incinerator burned more than 1 million bombs, rockets and other munitions, loaded with 13,000 tons of deadly blister and nerve agents. Under an international treaty, civilized nations agreed to get rid of it all.

"Chemical weapons were something the world could have easily done without, McCloskey said.

According to the Army, the site has now been cleaned of all dangerous chemicals. Some civilian businesses may be allowed to use a few remaining structures, but the Army itself will likely use the infamous igloos that stored the chemical weapons. Many of the munitions developed dangerous leaks as they aged into the 21st century.

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Residents of five communities in Olorunda Local Council Development Area, Badagry Lagos State, on Friday protested the demolition of numerous houses in their area, which left them displaced.

They took their protest to the Lagos State House of Assembly in Ikeja, where they urged the lawmakers to come to their rescue.

Mr Charles Adu, the Spokesman of the residents, said that the state government should urgently come to their aid because of the hardship the demolition had brought on them.

He also said that though the state government had written them a notification letter on the impending demolition of houses at Agemuwo and Agalato communities, the exercise was extended beyond the areas.

Adu said that the residents were surprised at the extension of the demolition to Muwo Phase Two, Araromi-Ale, and Atiporomeh communities.

He said that they believed that an unknown personality, who had been using the police to intimidate the residents, had engineered the demolition.

Adu said that 250 policemen invaded the communities on Dec. 14, 2013 to effect the demolition of their houses.

The spokesman said that the displaced residents now lived in churches and mosques under terrible conditions.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the protesters also threatened to go on hunger strike at the Assembly premises, until their demands were met.

Addressing them, the Speaker, Mr Adeyemi Ikuforiji, who was represented by Mr Segun Olulade, Chairman House Committee on Information, Strategy, Publicity and Security, commended the protesters for their peaceful conduct.

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(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Work is beginning to demolish structures at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, seen here in this 2009 photo. From 1945 to the 1970's munitions and chemicals were "stored" in open trenches. Contaminated metal was stored in barrells in a site on the property. The incinerator in the background was used for over a decade to dispose of the nation's nerve gas stockpile.

Buildings tumble Agents such as mustard gas and VX were once stored in igloos.

For 15 years, chemical weapons were destroyed at the former Deseret Chemical Depot. Thursday, work began to destroy something else: buildings.

The demolition is expected to take nine months and will bookend the former facilitys role in complying with the international Chemical Weapons Convention.

The property last year was transferred to the control of the nearby Tooele Army Depot and given the new designation as that depots South Area. Amy Blauser, a spokeswoman for South Area, said two modular buildings were scheduled for demolition Thursday.

One was a building that housed foreign inspectors who ensured U.S. compliance with the convention treaty. The other building was used to support those inspectors.

"Ultimately, well knock down everything associated with destroying the chemical weapons," Blauser said.

The last mustard gas-agent filled munition was destroyed at the depot in 2010 and the last bulk mustard gas was destroyed a year later. Chemical weapons destruction formally completed Jan. 21, 2012. But that doesnt mean South Area, or Utah, is free of chemical weapons.

An unknown number of munitions some which still hold the remnants of deadly chemical agents remain at South Area.

Thomas Ball, the staff engineer and Utah Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste, who oversees the Armys cleanup of the remaining waste, said the Army will probably spend several more years removing burnt or buried munitions, some of which contain chemical weapons that were not subject to the treaty.

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SALT LAKE CITY Crews started demolition Thursday of an Army depot in Utah that was responsible for destroying more than 40 percent of the nation's stockpile of chemical weapons.

The Deseret Chemical Depot once held 13,600 tons of chemical agents, making it the world's largest stockpile of a witch's brew of toxins and blister and blood agents that accumulated throughout the Cold War.

Army officials said they've completed the destruction of chemical weapons at the site, no longer need its incinerator, and want to tear it down for safety reasons.

The demolition work at the site 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City will last nine months and include dismantling the incinerator that destroyed liquid agents and munitions in 1,500-degree heat.

The depot didn't just hold obsolete U.S. weapons. A supply of nerve agent seized from Nazi Germany at the end of World War II was destroyed last year.

The U.S. Army has destroyed about 90 percent its chemical weapons under an international treaty. However, the job has taken 20 years longer and cost billions of dollars more than anticipated.

The U.S. still has a stockpile of mustard agent in Pueblo, Colo., and a mixed inventory of mustard and nerve agents at Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.

Russia is further behind than the U.S., having destroyed only about 65 percent of its chemical-weapons cache, according to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, Netherlands.

Deadlines set by the original treaty have been repeatedly pushed back because of the complexity of the work.

The U.S. is now helping Syria get rid of its chemical weapons.

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Crews started demolition Thursday of an Army depot in Utah that was responsible for destroying more than 40 percent of the nation's stockpile of chemical weapons.

The Deseret Chemical Depot once held 13,600 tons of chemical agents, making it the world's largest stockpile of a witch's brew of toxins and blister and blood agents that accumulated throughout the Cold War.

Army officials said they've completed the destruction of chemical weapons at the site, no longer need its incinerator, and want to tear it down for safety reasons.

The demolition work at the site 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City will last nine months and include dismantling the incinerator that destroyed liquid agents and munitions in 1,500-degree heat.

The depot didn't just hold obsolete U.S. weapons. A supply of nerve agent seized from Nazi Germany at the end of World War II was destroyed last year.

The U.S. Army has destroyed about 90 percent its chemical weapons under an international treaty. However, the job has taken 20 years longer and cost billions of dollars more than anticipated.

The U.S. still has a stockpile of mustard agent in Pueblo, Colo., and a mixed inventory of mustard and nerve agents at Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.

Russia is further behind than the U.S., having destroyed only about 65 percent of its chemical-weapons cache, according to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, Netherlands.

Deadlines set by the original treaty have been repeatedly pushed back because of the complexity of the work.

The U.S. is now helping Syria get rid of its chemical weapons.

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(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Work is beginning to demolish structures at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, seen here in this 2009 photo. From 1945 to the 1970's munitions and chemicals were "stored" in open trenches. Contaminated metal was stored in barrells in a site on the property. The incinerator in the background was used for over a decade to dispose of the nation's nerve gas stockpile.

Buildings tumble Agents such as mustard gas and VX were once stored in igloos.

For 15 years, chemical weapons were destroyed at the former Deseret Chemical Depot. Thursday, work began to destroy something else: buildings.

The demolition is expected to take nine months and will bookend the former facilitys role in complying with the international Chemical Weapons Convention.

The property last year was transferred to the control of the nearby Tooele Army Depot and given the new designation as that depots South Area. Amy Blauser, a spokeswoman for South Area, said two modular buildings were scheduled for demolition Thursday.

One was a building that housed foreign inspectors who ensured U.S. compliance with the convention treaty. The other building was used to support those inspectors.

"Ultimately, well knock down everything associated with destroying the chemical weapons," Blauser said.

The last mustard gas-agent filled munition was destroyed at the depot in 2010 and the last bulk mustard gas was destroyed a year later. Chemical weapons destruction formally completed Jan. 21, 2012. But that doesnt mean South Area, or Utah, is free of chemical weapons.

An unknown number of munitions some which still hold the remnants of deadly chemical agents remain at South Area.

Thomas Ball, the staff engineer and Utah Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste, who oversees the Armys cleanup of the remaining waste, said the Army will probably spend several more years removing burnt or buried munitions, some of which contain chemical weapons that were not subject to the treaty.

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