Home Builder Developer - Interior Renovation and Design

Dads installed sprinkler system
via YouTube Capture.

By: Gavriela Madden

Link:
Dads installed sprinkler system - Video

While Ontario is thinking of speeding up its plans to equip all seniors homes with sprinkler systems after the LIsle-Verte tragedy, Quebec is still tiptoeing around the question.

A day after eight people were confirmed dead in a horrific fire, rescuers were scrambling to find 30 missing residents in the icy ruins of a Lower St. Lawrence retirement home.

Video: Pauline Marois on Quebec seniors residence fire

Everyone is saying: Is there something more we should be doing? Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews said. We have brought in regulations that will require sprinklers in all retirement homes and long-term-care homes. There is a phase-in period, and so I think we do have to take a look, another look, to see if there is anything we can do to accelerate that.

Introduced last year, the new rules require facilities built before 1998 when sprinklers became mandatory to be equipped with such systems. Private residences have five years to comply, while publicly owned ones have until 2025. Ms. Matthews defended that time frame, but said she wants to move it up.

I cannot imagine having to deal with that situation here in Ontario, and it is, I think, an opportunity to take another look.

In Quebec, politicians of all stripes are responding with caution to calls for mandatory sprinkler systems.

The provincial Liberal government proposed a new law in 2011 to tighten regulations on elder-care homes to make them safer. But while requirements for fire-detection systems were made more stringent, sprinkler systems were not mentioned. In Quebec, only facilities in which residents have no mobility are required to have sprinklers.

When the Parti Qubcois came to power, it essentially enacted the law as it was. Minister of Health and Social Services Rjean Hbert, who is also responsible for seniors, made a plea for safer care homes after learning that a private residence in his riding had no sprinklers and did not meet basic safety standards.

Do we need to wait for a tragedy ... before we set up stricter rules for residences that house people who are losing their autonomy, Mr. Hbert said in the Quebec National Assembly last February. He is out of Quebec this week, and calls to his office were directed to his colleague, Agns Maltais.

Original post:
Sprinkler systems are suddenly top of mind

Wooden Sheds
Get more information on :- http://www.ilikesheds.com/cat/wooden-sheds/ We offer a wide range of wooden sheds for your garden.we have a large range of quality...

By: Kenneth E. Rios

Excerpt from:
Wooden Sheds - Video

eazy sheds bespoke garden sheds and custom timber buildings
visit http://www.eazysheds.com or visit our manufacturing and show site on powderworks lane maghull liverpool merseyside call 0151 525 0004 for details.

By: eazy sheds

Originally posted here:
eazy sheds bespoke garden sheds and custom timber buildings - Video

Vermont Post and Beam Sheds and Cabins
60 second radio ad, winter time is the best time to buy, 0% financing and free shipping one tiny houses, storage sheds, firewood bins barns garages and play ...

By: Jamaica CottageShop

Link:
Vermont Post and Beam Sheds and Cabins - Video

United Airlines Tops Estimates, IBM Sheds Assets
The number of people filing new claims for jobless benefits rose slightly in the latest week to 326000. United Airlines beats analyst forecasts on both the ...

By: TheStreet

See the article here:
United Airlines Tops Estimates, IBM Sheds Assets - Video

Fear is back in the market.

Those fears converged to start a two-day rout in global markets this week, capped by a 318-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average Friday. It was the blue-chip indexs worst day since last June. The Dow plunged almost 500 points over the two-day stretch.

The Standard & Poors 500 index fell 38 points, or 2.1 percent, to 1,790 Friday. The Nasdaq composite fell 90 points, or 2.2 percent, to 4,128.

Investors are worried about slower economic growth in China, a gloomier outlook for U.S. corporate profits and an end to easy money policies in the U.S. and Europe.

Despite the sell-off, U.S. stocks remain near all-time highs after surging 30 percent last year. The S&P 500 is 3 percent below its record high of 1,848 on Jan. 15.

U.S. stocks have not endured a correction a drop of 10 percent or more over time since October 2011.

In Asia on Friday, Japans Nikkei 225 slipped 1.9 percent to close at 15,391.56; Hong Kongs Hang Seng shed 1.2 percent to 22,450.06; and Seouls Kospi dropped 0.4 percent to 1,940.56.

The turbulence coincides with a global economic shift: China and other emerging market economies appear to be running into trouble just as the developed economies of the U.S. and Europe finally show signs of renewed strength nearly five years after the end of the last recession.

The trouble began Thursday after a January survey showed a drop in Chinese manufacturing activity. Days earlier, China reported that its economic growth last year matched 2012 for the slowest pace since 1999.

It is interesting how even a mild tremor in Chinas growth causes such anxiety around the world, said Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy at Cornell University.

Read the original:
Dow skids, sheds 318 points

A grandmother unable to sleep on a hot June night raised the alarm and save her grandsons as fire ripped through two garden sheds and entered her Upper Bucklebury home.

A statement from Christine, Rose of Mortons Lane, was read to the jury at Reading Crown Court on yesterday at the trial of Philip Ruta, 25 of Fallows Road, Padworth who denies arson with intent to endanger life at the home of Mrs Rose and her husband Dennis.

He also denies arson reckless as to whether life was endangered and criminally damaging a Peugeot car belonging to his ex-girlfriend Zoe Jury.

Mrs Rose described how she had gone to bed at 11pm on June 19 last year but woke at around 1.15am because she was hot.

She watched TV and made some food and at 3.15 noticed a light outside making it look like daylight.

Her statement said: "I immediately thought it looked like fire."

She saw through her kitchen door the garden sheds were blazing and woke her husband Dennis. He told her to call the fire brigade and wake their two grandsons who lived with them.

Mr Rose then threw water on the outside wall in an attempt to prevent the fire spreading to the house.

The court heard how he moved his own car and got the car keys from Miss Jury who lived two doors along in Mortons Lane because her car was parked next to his - close to the fire.

Mrs Rose said in her statement: "I keep thinking about what could have happened if I had not been awake as our fire alarm did not go off and the fire was very near the boys' room."

Go here to see the original:
Gran describes how fire ripped through garden sheds towards her home

MASON CITY | Electrical failure in the wiring above the ceiling in the banquet room caused the fire at the Rose Bowl on Wednesday, according toMark Christiansen, fire marshal with the Mason City Fire Department.

The fire, which was reported by an employee working inside the bowling alley at 3:12 a.m., involved the banquet room addition that was added to the original building in the 1980s.

The employee reported seeing fire in the banquet room prior to exiting the building, Christiansen said in a press release.

The fire originated above the suspended ceiling in the banquet room, according to Christiansen. It traveled throughout the wooden rafters before burning through the ceiling and igniting the room contents.

The east interior wall of the banquet room (former west exterior wall of the original building) was able to contain the fire and prevent it from spreading into the original building, Christiansen said.

Fire did enter the original building through a set of double doors that were open, causing some damage to the bar and kitchen area.

Video from the building's security system was recovered and analyzed with the help of the employees from Central Lock of Mason City. The video confirms the fire originated in the banquet room ceiling space, according to Christiansen.

Additional footage from an exterior camera shows the exterior lights flickering for several minutes before finally losing power, he said.

"Investigator Brian Schupe from the State Fire Marshals Office contacted our departmentand offered to assist in the investigation, and his help was greatly appreciated," Christiansen said.

Excerpt from:
Electrical failure ruled as cause of Rose Bowl fire

KU news More LJWorld KU News Coverage

Photo by Mike Yoder

At left, Alan Black, Professor Emeritus, Urban Planning at KU and 804 Studio student Christine Harwood, St. Louis, MO., visit during a celebration for the new addition to the School of Architecture's Marvin Hall. A model of the new addition, called The Forum, which is being built by Kansas University's Studio 804, will house the KU School for Architecture, Design and Planning's first-ever lecture room. Black and Harwood were at a ceremonial groundbreaking at the Lied Center Friday.

Photo by Mike Yoder

The construction site for the new addition to Marvin Hall is viewed outside the windows of the walkway between Marvin and the Fine Arts building on the Kansas University campus.

After clearing another set of bureaucratic hurdles, Kansas University's Studio 804 is ready to begin putting in place the first pieces of a new addition to Marvin Hall.

The addition will house the KU School for Architecture, Design and Planning's first-ever lecture room and commons area at its home in the 105-year-old Marvin.

Studio 804, a year-long workshop that takes students from the design of a building through construction, began the project last fall.

On Friday the school celebrated what architecture school dean John Gaunt described as a "symbolic groundbreaking" at the Lied Center Pavilion. The school hosted the Studio 804 students, faculty, alumni, KU administrators and potential donors to learn about Studio 804's work so far and the building soon to be.

It was good timing, too, Gaunt said. "They got the go ahead from Topeka. They're all clear on codes. The students are ready to dig in," he said.

Read more from the original source:
KU architecture school celebrates 'symbolic' groundbreaking for Marvin