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HUGE sections of temporary roofing are being put in place to protect the fire-damaged Mackintosh building at Glasgow School of Art before the onset of winter.

The work is being carried out by one of the biggest scaffolding companies in the country.

SGB has spent the past few weeks putting specially designed scaffolding in place around the historic building.

Project manager John Watson said: "It is a unique design for a unique building.

"Our inhouse design engineer Chris Rogers came up with a scheme that caused minimal damage to the fabric of the listed building.

"The scaffolding had to be attached to the actual building, so that was quite a challenge.

"Chris also had to design scaffolding ties which are unique to this project, so there are a lot of firsts."

Once the scaffolding was in place, a 75 tonne crane was brought in to start the delicate job of lifting temporary roof panels into place.

The three sections of the fire damaged roof are all a different design so 12 individual panels had to be designed and constructed to ensure the building is kept watertight.

Each roof section is 5m wide, 30m long and weigh between 1.2 and 1.8 tonnes.

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Published: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 6:32 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 6:32 p.m.

The following is a rundown of action at the Terrebonne Parish School Board meeting Wednesday. All members were present, and all votes were unanimous unless otherwise noted.

Action: Approved a resolution recognizing Oct. 21 as Geaux Pink Day.

Action: Approved a resolution recognizing Oct. 20-24 as School Bus Safety Week.

Action: Approved a resolution recognizing October as national Anti-Bullying Month.

Action: Approved a bus lease agreement between the School Board and Vandebilt Catholic High School.

Action: Accepted low bids for door and window replacement.

Action: Approved the low bid for $225,000 from M&H Builders for the South Terrebonne High School press box renovation project.

Action: Approved substantial completion for the Village East Elementary School re-roofing project.

Action: Declared the Daigleville School property at 8542 E. Main Street as surplus.

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MUSCATINE, Iowa Major repairs on the Muscatine County Courthouse's clock tower have been completed and all four clock dials are back in operation.

Muscatine Couny Budget Coordinator Sherry Seright reported the news to the Muscatine County Board of Supervisors during its weekly meeting Monday morning. Seright said that while repairs to the clock mechanism were completed, some lighting in the tower still needed to be replaced, but that would be done at a later date by county personnel.

After months of the clock being out of operation and research by the board, members voted in August to award a repair contract to Verdin Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the amount of $26,149. Work on the project began soon afterward.

HVAC

On another construction matter, Seright also reported to the board that work on a new heating, venting and air conditioning project for the Muscatine County Administration Building, 414 E. Third St., was ahead of schedule. She anticipated that project being completed by the end of October.

The project will install a new $1.02 million geothermal HVAC project for the building. Contractors are tapping into the existing geothermal system currently in operation at the Muscatine County Courthouse across the street from the administration building to provide heating and cooling to those buildings through underground wells and pumps to heat and cool buildings without the need for conventional boiler systems, providing an energy cost savings to the county.

Voting

Muscatine County Auditor Leslie Soule, who also serves as county election commissioner, noted during the meeting that early voting for the Nov. 4 general election had begun in Muscatine County.

She reminded county voters who are receiving absentee ballots by mail that they are required to sign the back of the envelopes for their ballots to have a valid vote. Soule noted that the auditor's office has had to contact some of those voters to make sure those envelopes are signed.

Soule also announced locations for satellite voting in the Muscatine County area during the next two weeks. She noted that those who have requested ballots by mail should wait for those ballots, but any other residents who have not voted were encourage to vote. (See info box elsewhere with this story for the list of satellite voting locations.)

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Boston Properties is in talks with two potential tenants to take the top floors of its $275 million, 17-story, 888 Boylston St. building under way in the Back Bay.

Were well into discussions and negotiations, confirmed Bryan Koop, senior vice president and regional manager of the real estate investment trusts Hub office.

Koop confirmed the company is targeting boutique financial, private equity, hedge fund and investment management firms.

Boston Properties and signed anchor tenant Natixis Global Asset Management will formally mark construction of the building with a groundbreaking today. Its the Back Bays first speculative office building since Boston Properties finished 111 Huntington Ave. in 2001 in the same Prudential Center complex.

In addition to 365,000 square feet of office space, 60,000 to 80,000 square feet of retail space could accommodate three to four retailers. Weve got really, really exciting retailers in discussion and close to agreement, Koop said.

Boston Properties goal with 888 Boylston city-approved in 2008, but delayed by the economic downturn is to build Bostons most sustainable office building. It is designed to consume 45 percent less energy and 37 percent less potable water than a typical office building of its size. It will produce energy on site through an 85 kW solar array and 14 wind turbines.

Everything about the building is designed first and foremost for the lives inside of the building, Koop said, noting the natural light will allow tenants to turn off their lights 60 percent of the time.

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The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) was asked yesterday to dismiss from office Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin Jun-Jun Binay and 20 councilors charged earlier with plunder and graft in connection with the alleged overpriced construction of the Makati Parking Building.

A group mostly young Makati residents belonging to the United Makati Against Corruption (UMAC) trooped to the OMB headquarters in Quezon City City to file the 15-page consolidated reply-complaint.

It said the evidence submitted earlier against the respondents was strong that warrant their immediate ouster from the service.

UMAC spokesman Jhasper Cuayzon said lawyer Renato Bondal and Nicolas Enciso, convenors of the group, were supposed to file the reply affidavit but could make it for security reasons.

The consolidated affidavit also asked the OMB to include in the plunder and graft charges 10 key officials of the Hillmarcs Construction Corporation which put up the controversial 11-storey office-parking building.

They were identified as Efren Canlas, Damian Ramos, Trinitas Canlas, Susan Ramos, Shiela Dayrit, Edoyuard Canlas, Juan Canlas, Christima Elisse Canlas, Hak Jin Kim and Roberto Henson. (Jun Ramirez)

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Raleigh, N.C. Crews demolishing an office building in Raleigh's Glenwood South district Tuesday morning damaged a neighboring jazz bar.

It happened shortly after 10 a.m. when a wall crashed through C. Grace Cocktail Bar, at 407 Glenwood Ave.

"I didn't know what had happened. It was really scary. Our whole building shook," said Lynn Snow, who was working at a nearby coffee shop at the time.

She went outside, she said, and found bricks and steel beams falling on top of the bar.

No one was injured, but C. Grace owner, Katrina Godwin, said the fall left a gaping hole over one of the bathrooms and a food prep area. A damaged water line caused flooding throughout the business.

The bar, Godwin said, will be closed for at least several days but that it could reopen by the weekend.

William Robertson, superintendent for Choate Construction Co., said he is still trying to find out what went wrong.

Crews began demolition last week on the office building to make way for a 6-story luxury apartment building at the corner of Glenwood and West North Street.

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