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EXPENSIVE BILL: Policy-holders with damage to a fenceline like this liquefaction damage in Queenspark Dr in Christchurchs eastern suburbs, could be liable to an excess of up to $10,000 in Christchurch.

Insurers are imposing tough new $5000 excesses for some structures on residential properties which will save them millions of dollars in the next big natural disaster.

It will mean homeowners will be paying a large chunk of the cost to fix damage to their driveways, paths, fences and swimming pools caused by an earthquake, tsunami, flood or storm.

It is all part of the huge shake-up in residential insurance policies after the Canterbury earthquakes.

The changes, which are being imposed in insurance policies now as they are renewed and for new customers, are pushing risk back on to homeowners.

Insurers want to be rid of the smaller claims to fences, paths, driveways and swimming pools in natural disasters.

The $5000 excess is being introduced throughout New Zealand and only applies in a natural disaster.

However, one insurer, Vero, has singled out Christchurch and has a higher $10,000 excess on the cover for fences, paths, driveways and swimming pools.

Vero introduced the $10,000 excess in late 2011 and is now bringing in the $5000 excess for the rest of New Zealand.

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Archive photos: El Paso City Hall

The family behind Controlled Demolition Inc. -- the company bringing down the former City Hall -- has long been in headlines as it has worked on some of the largest demolition projects around the world and on some big-name Hollywood action movies.

On April 14, CDI will add El Paso's former City Hall building to its long list of projects, which includes a handful of Las Vegas hotels.

In 2009, the company imploded what was dubbed the "leaning tower of South Padre," a 38-story skyscraper with great ocean views. The Ocean Tower high-rise remained unfinished when it began sinking into the sand and cracking. That set the world record for the demolition of the tallest reinforced concrete building.

Nearly 10 years before that, CDI set the world record for imploding the tallest structural steel building: The 44-story, 439-foot-tall J.L. Hudson Building in Detroit.

The company was founded in 1947 by Jack Loizeaux, a forestry worker who began to use explosives to remove the roots of trees that had died. He then branched out, knocking down bridges and buildings.

Today, CDI is known as a leader in the commercial explosives demolition industry.

"It's definitely a family thing," said Stacey Loizeaux, the

Her father, Mark Loizeaux, is now president of the company.

Controlled Demolition Inc. is known for its implosions, where strategically placed explosives break a building that then falls into its own footprint.

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It's D-day for the old I-595 ramp to southbound Florida's Turnpike.

Drivers on Florida's Turnpike could continue to face slowdowns near Interstate 595 through at least midday Sunday as workers continue to demolish an old ramp.

Half of the 280-foot-long span over the turnpike's southbound lanes was knocked down on Saturday. Late Saturday and early Sunday, the other half over the northbound lanes was to come down.

From an area just north of the demolition, project manager Paul Lampley watched as chunks of debris fell from the bridge. Several pieces of heavy equipment, include backhoes with jackhammers, banged away at the bridge deck, removing 2,000 tons of steel-reinforced concrete, which will be recycled. A cushion of dirt protected the turnpike lanes below.

"It's a piece-by-piece process," Lampley said. "It went off without any problems."

Signs on I-95 coming out of Miami and as far as 50 miles away on the turnpike warned drivers to expect delays at I-595. Some turnpike drivers, however, got caught in a jam early Saturday.

On a typical day, 120,000 vehicles use that section of the turnpike, a popular route to and from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Port Everglades, and a fast-moving alternative to the more congested I-95.

But two of the turnpike's three northbound and southbound lanes were closed at I-595 at 6 a.m. Saturday.

It didn't take long for northbound turnpike traffic to back up almost five miles to Hollywood Boulevard. Crew reopened a second northbound lane for a few hours Saturday morning to relieve the gridlock but closed the lane again about noon as demolition moved closer to the northbound lanes.

All lanes on the northbound turnpike closed at 5 p.m. Saturday and will remain closed until 1 p.m. Sunday. Traffic is being detoured onto I-595, State Road 7 and Sunrise Boulevard back to the turnpike. The southbound side will continue to get by the demolition in a single lane until 1 p.m. Sunday.

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TOURISM department regional head Helen Catalbas has requested to the City Government of Iloilo for the demolition of a city-funded overpass, which, she said, is useless.

"Useless and has outlived its usefulness to the present condition of the city that must be demolished immediately" is the stakeholders' reaction against the P400,000-worth city-funded overpass along Bonifacio Drive in front of the Department of Tourism (DOT) regional office.

DOT regional director Helen Catalbas, who wrote the request to the City Government of Iloilo, said the overpass outlived its usefulness for 20 years.

She added that several sectors, including DOT and the Provincial Government, are against the construction of the overpass even during the time of Malabor; however, Malabor insisted to build the project with city funds, claiming the people will have a safe passage across the busy street especially to the Hall of Justice building.

There were police reports that the unlighted overpass was used only by drunks and members of the cultural minorities to sleep during the evenings and a rape incident and murder case happened at the edifice.

Leone Gerochi, head of the City Council committee on engineering, construction and public works, said the committee concluded a public hearing on Thursday, April 4, 2013, on the requested demolition of the overpass and will render its recommendation to City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog immediately after the May 2013 elections.

The public hearing was participated by Catalbas and other stakeholders along the Bonifacio Drive area.

The overpass was built in 1993 during the term of former City Mayor Mansueto Malabor as the mayor's legacy project.

Gerochi said the overpass project is a last recourse in any urban planning and may come up with a solution soon.

Gerochi said he will exhaust all means to get public sentiments on the project or may recommend for a demolition or redesign and rehabilitation if warranted.

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Construction crews started demolishing an out-of-service flyover ramp connecting I-595 to the southbound lanes of Florida's Turnpike on Saturday.

The demolition is part of the $1.2 billion reconstruction of the two major roadways.Drivers are already using the new ramp used to connect Westbound I-595 to the Southbound Turnpike.

Northbound is shut down until 1 p.m. Sunday to keep drivers safe. Until then, drivers are being rerouted.

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The detour will take drivers eastbound on I-595, where they can get off on 441 and head north to Sunrise Boulevard. There, drivers will be able to hop back onto the Turnpike.The southbound lanes are expected to be open with a single lane.

A contractor, who specializes in bridge demolition, has been brought in to do the job. All told, it will take two dozen crew members some 10 hours to bring down the old ramp. The carefully choreographed demo will include more than a wrecking ball.

"Its a steel girder bridge, so they'll be demolishing the concrete deck and taking down the steel beams one-by-one, said Paul Lampley, the project manager. "They'll be using specialized equipment for the demolition.

Construction crews laid out a bed of sand on the Turnpike going in both directions.A cover on the northbound side should keep the debris from flying eastbound.

Once the debris is hauled off, the sand will be swept and the lanes will re-open.

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