At Kew, a pile of large iron nails rusted together show that boat building and repair went on, and pieces of 17th-century slipware mingle with Tudor pot handles.
Portsmouth City Council, which owns the building, said it did not have enough money to repair the building.
If the building is beyond repair, either party can terminate the lease.
Already, at least one landlord of a damaged lower Broadway building, afraid of losing tenants, has told them he can repair the building in eight weeks.
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are attempting to remove highly radioactive water from a reactor building to allow repair work to the cooling systems knocked out on 11 March.
The typical New York City lease requires a landlord to repair a building that is damaged but not destroyed.
And while in the past developers might repair a building knowing they could sell it and recoup their costs, the "conservation deficit" has rocketed during the recession.
According to the government's blueprint for dismantling Fukushima Daiichi, engineers will first have to repair the reactor building leaks, which could take six years, then drain the buildings of radioactive water, which could take an additional two years.
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The jury also found the building owners liable for failing to repair the elevator after being warned it might be dangerous.
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The cost of repair works to the building is still being calculated.
Earlier this month trustees of the collection announced plans to upgrade and repair the 30-year-old building to make it fit for the 21st Century.
However, an architect for the building's owner has said it is not beyond repair.
It was in a cheaply constructed, boxlike, one-story building on a desolate street of bars, car-repair shops, and empty lots.
Previous projects have included everything from workshops on designing and building less-polluting cookstoves to efforts to build and repair schools and roads to a two-year survey by scientists to study and map the Mekong.
At this time, a reconstruction program involving mine clearance, road building, food and medicine distribution, refugee return and infrastructure repair would be taken on by the UN administration with the cooperation of the militias and under the protection of the foreign military.
"Prior to that incident, the military never directed KBR to repair, upgrade or improve the grounding system in the building in which Maseth resided, nor was KBR directed to perform any preventive maintenance at this facility, " Browne said.
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While housing construction and other building will take time to return to pre-financial-crash levels, the repair and restoration side of this industry is doing well, particularly since those who have had their buildings foreclosed upon are stripping gutters and other exposed metal for recycling.
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For the church, built over a cave which marks the traditional birthplace of Jesus Christ, the biggest problem is water damage from unrepaired leaks and the reluctance of the Greek, Armenian and Roman Catholic hierarchs to agree on any repair plan that might disrupt the Ottoman-era system for sharing access to the building.
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Infrastructure investments could include bridge and highway construction and repair, new commuter and high-speed rail lines, upgrading communications systems, renovating or building new schools, community colleges and state-of-the art job training facilities, investing in dams, waterways and water treatment facilities, reclaiming key wetlands, and improving the basic livability of impoverished neighborhoods.
"The original intention was to preserve this building, but it turned out it was in a far worse condition structurally than we anticipated and uneconomic to repair it, " she said.
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