Even Pro's Can Messup

Nov 11, 2008 5 Replies
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"Building caves in for second time



A high street in the West Midlands has been cordoned off after a building collapsed for the second time.



Walls and scaffolding of the Bairstow Eves estate agents on High Street in West Bromwich caved in at just before 1200 GMT on Tuesday.



Firefighters say some people have not been accounted for.



In June a builder, Lakhvir Singh, 47, died when the building first caved in. Search and rescue dogs have been drafted in after the latest incident."



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I'd rely on them organising a survey of a property. Not.

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I would suggest (although I have no evidence) that the people working on these premises are far from what one would call 'professional' (with or without an errant apostrophe).

I see it all the time; people (of whatever nationality or ethnicity) with little or no experience or skill attempting quite major engineering projects, and just about getting away with it without killing themselves or others. It appears Mr Singh was one of the unlucky ones.

If there's an argument for licensing builders, it's this.

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So it would appear, judging by the report on the roiginal incident:

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the building must have been inspected and pronounced safe by the appropriate inspectors after the June incident, so I imagine someone's going to get his balls chewed off over the latest event. Although - the present report does mention 'scaffolding' so maybe one of the late Mr Singh's chums was carrying on his work...

David

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I guess,after the first event,the estate agent's staff must have been sitting in trepidation that it was going to happen again ....and it did .

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