Decidedly, the city of Brewers is experiencing a bad patch. One of the heritage symbols of Schiltigheim, a municipality bordering Strasbourg, is being destroyed. It is the 39 meter high chimney of the old Fischer brewery, which towered over the city, was a marker of industrial and brewing history and visible to thousands of motorists from the highway.The firefighters were indeed called Tuesday shortly after 4 p.m. because the chimney sank two meters, threatening to collapse, indicates a report from...
Precautionary principle. The city of Lille ordered, Friday, a new evaluation of building, “because of a certain risk”, announces the town hall, in a press release. This is the 10th emergency evacuation order taken since the collapse, on November 12, of two adjoining buildings in the city center, which had caused the death of a person.This time, it is a building located at 51, rue de la Clef, between Old Lille and the city center, which is targeted. The business...
Has a new drama been avoided in Lille? A little less than three months after the collapse of two buildings, which claimed the life of a doctor, a building was evacuated on Friday afternoon. It is located rue de la clef.In a press release, the town hall speaks of a “certain risk for the occupants of the building” detected after an audit. “A barrier has been put in place to prohibit access to the sidewalk of the building. The business,...
The results of the collapse of a building in a district of Aleppo are terrible and unfortunately only temporary. Sixteen people including children died on Sunday in this tragedy which affected Syria's second city, according to several local sources.At 3 a.m., in the predominantly Kurdish district of Sheikh Maksoud, the five-storey building collapsed following "water infiltration in the foundations", while its inhabitants were sleeping, indicated the official Syrian agency Sana. Seven families were housed there according to the Interior Ministry,...
Since the disaster in the rue d'Aubagne in Marseille, and more recently the collapse of buildings in Bordeaux and then Lille, town halls have been looking for ways to better control "building risks" on the oldest dwellings. Toulouse, which had to manage the collapse of a roof on rue Cujas in 2019, then that of the first floor of a building on rue de la Fonderie in 2020 – which fortunately did not cause any injuries but weakened adjacent buildings...
The collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet - which could cause catastrophic sea level rise - is not "inevitable", researchers concluded in a study published Monday in Nature Communications.Since the early 1990s, scientists have observed an acceleration in the melting of the ice in this area of Antarctica, under the effect of climate change caused by human activity. Some fear a now irreversible collapse of the ice sheet, which would continue regardless of future climate change.It would thus be...
The situation at day care centers in Munich is coming to a head. The Caritas Association of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising is now warning of a collapse in childcare. In many daycare centers, shortage management is the order of the day, the staff are working at the limit of their resilience. "The consequences are fatal," said Caritas director Hermann Sollfrank on Wednesday. "There are more cases of illness and burnout and a higher turnover." Sollfrank called on politicians...
Investments in Berlin start-ups collapsed after an extraordinarily good year in 2021. Last year, growth companies in the capital raised around 4.9 billion euros in venture capital from investors. That was less than half of the previous year's figure, according to an analysis published on Wednesday by the consulting and auditing company EY. Nationwide, investments collapsed by 43 percent to 9.9 billion euros - in 2021 Berlin alone had topped this value (10.5 billion euros). In Germany as a whole,...
The situation at day care centers in Munich is coming to a head. The Caritas Association of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising is now warning of a collapse in childcare. In many daycare centers, shortage management is the order of the day, the staff are working at the limit of their resilience. "The consequences are fatal," said Caritas director Hermann Sollfrank on Wednesday. "There are more cases of illness and burnout and a higher turnover." Sollfrank called on politicians...
