Rita_Poon
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Don't most ask for two extra feet?
Big engineering
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For why? Extra arms means I can carry more pints from the bar.
Ribblehead Viaduct. The Settle to Carlisle line was the last main railway in Britain to be constructed primarily with manual labour (Navvy's).
I`ve stayed and ran around there.
It`s bleak and remote, but in it`s own way, it has a very unique beauty.
Simon Buttle
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I remember as a kid being with my grandparents and we went to go across there and got stuck in a massive jam as some bloke had climbed up to the top of it and was trying to throw himself off it.
I was in that white building earlier in the year and they're all p'd off because what's going there is going to destroy their view of the river.
I bet.
The way they’ve been getting thrown up in the last 15 or so years, you more or less have to expect to get blocked in.
Interestingly some of the older residential building are able to exercise a statutory entitlement known as ‘ancient light’ and often have signs up to remind developers…
There’s also a City of London mandate to protect specific sight lines of some historic sites too.
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An impressive feat of engineering here
Tony Hibbert's Wife
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What they have is a right of light acquired by a period of 20 years' enjoyment. Right of light works like any right of way - subject to certain conditions, if you've been using it for 20 years it becomes a right in law.
Usually a developer will have a Rights to Light Surveyor do a survey of the surrounding apertures identifying those those where light will be sufficiently diminished for it to become actionable. Developers Lawyers/Surveyors pretty much work on the assumption that if a building has been there for more than 20 years, they'll have acquired the right unless there's something in the title that suggests the right has been reserved to the land being developed.
When the windows impacted have been identified and the legal position established the developer has a choice: a) insure against the risk (which costs a fortune); or b) obtain a release from the proprietors of the affected windows (which costs a fortune).
Courts have powers to award either damages or injunction to stop development. In the most extreme cases a court can order a building to come down if a right of light has been breached sufficiently. So developer has a balancing act not to pay more for releases than the Court would award but also avoid an injunction.
Fascinating area of law
Meh....
Watch: World's highest bridge opens in China
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge towers 625m (2,083ft) above a gorge in the country's Guizhou province.www.bbc.co.uk
Worlds highest bridge, delivered in 3.5 years on time. Across a gorge that once took 2 hours to cross now takes 2 minutes. The industrial might and infrastructure it is delivering country wide has never been delivered at the scale the Chinese are currently rolling out. Impressive stuff.
I'm not sure I'd like to be in that white building on the left after seeing this angle.
What's holding it up
Good shout, there’s some pretty huge pilings there but can’t imagine they go much deeper!
You’ve just reminded me of another bit of engineering with pilings to avoid the London Underground system, must find it!
I personally oversaw significant recentl improvements to one of the world's most historic big engineering projects
How’s your piles?
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Landsec’s new London development: Threading a building through the eye of a needle
The ground below the developer's n2 office in Victoria was so congested by tunnels, it is supported in just four places. Thomas Lane looks at the pinpoint accuracy of the building's fit
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