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Recycling as much debris as possible has become part of the process of demolishing structures in this day and age. Some items taken from buildings, such as steel, wood and concrete, are in high demand and command fairly nice prices. Then there are items left behind that the demolition contractor can salvage and sell. Pat Clauss, owner of Clauss Construction in Lakeside, removed a pair of wood and glass doors that once served as the entrance to Steve Wynns art collection at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. The doors, including frames with inlaid gold, and magnificent beveled glass designs, were installed at his new Lakeside office, along with glass sconces retrieved from the same project. At several sites he has found workable heavy equipment and other machinery easily sold, or re-used by the company.
BEIJING, Oct. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- The Amish of West Nickel Mines, Pa. don't believe in using modern machines or technology, but it was heavy construction equipment that razed the one-room schoolhouse Wednesday where a gunman fatally shot five girls and injured five others. The Amis h relied on an outside demolition crew with heavy machinery to bring closure to the painful chapter in their peaceful community. I think the Amish leaders made the right decision," Mike Hart, a spokesman for the Bart Fire Company, said as loaders lifted debris into dump trucks to be hauled away. It seems this is a type of closure for them," Hart said, as a group of mostly Amish gathered to watch as the schools bell tower toppled and the walls crumpled.
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Last week at IIDEX/NeoCon Canada in Toronto, Canada's leading conference for design and management of interior environments and the country's premier floorcovering exposition, the three brands of Tandus – Monterey, C&A, and Crossley – took top honors in the Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) Awards of Excellence for products. Crossley earned the Gold Award in the Broadloom Carpet category for its TeaHouse Collection; Monterey earned Silver Broadloom for its product Full Volume as well as Bronze Broadloom for its Beneath the Surface Collection. C&A earned Silver in the Modular Carpet category for its product Sira. All were produced under the direction of Suzanne Tick, Design Director, Tandus. "This most recent performance coupled with a Best of NeoCon Gold award this past June in Chicago shows continued recognition from the architecture and design community that Tandus is the floorcovering industry's design leader – a goal we set out to achieve a year and a half ago," said Ms.
Foreclosure activity has shown a dramatic increase in San Diego and Riverside counties, far outpacing most of California and the rest of the nation, according to a foreclosure tracking firm, RealtyTrac.The large disparity is probably because of the cooling real estate market in what is one of the most expensive regions of the country, according to one local economist. San Diego County had 4,069 properties in some stage of foreclosure for the quarter that ended in September, compared with 970 properties for the same quarter in 2005, an increase of 319 percent. Riverside had 4,403 such properties for the most recent quarter, versus 1,297 for the same quarter in 2005, an increase of 239 percent. .
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