Almost half were suicides and many were as a result of falling from high buildings, often while trying to escape their employers.
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The culture secretary's motion called on Holyrood to recognise the importance of high quality buildings and places and the vital contribution that they make to Scotland's economy as well as its cultural identity.
The Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop's motion called on Holyrood to recognise the importance of high quality buildings and places and the vital contribution that they make to Scotland's economy as well as its cultural identity.
"A lot of tourists, citizens and residents who live in high rise buildings along the lakefront are not protected, and that's what we are fighting for, " Bond said, adding that the mayor had originally advocated instituting a no-fly zone of 25 miles around O'Hare Airport.
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Tom Broadbent has adapted the early river waterwheel electrical generation system for use in high-rise buildings.
There are some high-rise buildings that are running their elevators and their stairwell lights on generators.
Glass broke in high-rise buildings, causing the injuries, the federal Emergency Ministry said in a statement.
Construction crews are swarming over new high-rise buildings in Seattle and big suburban areas such as Bellevue.
Some high-rise buildings in China do not have a fourth or 14th floor for that very reason.
High-rise buildings in major cities are designed so that they sway rather than shake during earthquakes, making them safer.
Studies have also found that the high-rise buildings in cities create a barrier that can redirect regional weather patterns.
Dandong's city government has moved offices to the area, but the thickets of surrounding high-rise buildings remain unfinished and empty.
His employees started to throw out recommendations of how to address the high-cost buildings, including consolidating their workforce or simply rebuilding.
The old town of mud-brick houses linked by labyrinthine alleys is disappearing, eaten up by broad avenues lined by high-rise buildings.
Over the decades, Tishman Speyer has purchased high-profile buildings throughout the world, such as Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building in Manhattan.
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Peel's Liverpool Waters plan includes building high-rise buildings housing offices, shops and up to 14, 000 apartments on an area of disused land.
As if things weren't bad enough for Silicon Valley tech companies, now some are being forced to buy their buildings high and sell low.
It is also ideal for hopping between high-rise buildings in cities it being stable in winds due to gyroscopic forces of the spinning disc.
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The quake was felt across the Gulf in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, where workers were evacuated from high-rise buildings as a precaution.
The Wirral Waters scheme includes plans for high rise-buildings, green spaces and 13, 000 homes built on 1.7m sq m of land around the borough's docklands.
The number of fire engines that respond to fires in high-rise buildings has now been increased and there have been changes to equipment and tactics.
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My uncle is an engineer and he was teaching the next day in McGill and coincidentally the lecture he was giving was about high-rise buildings.
Schindler lifts, in use in hundred of high-rise buildings, use technology such as a personal identification card readers or keypads to understand the exact requirements of a user.
Only thorough research could discern that residents of high-rise buildings are more likely to be victims of crime, because stacked tenants make for poor monitors of the surrounding streets.
From the 1950s onwards, the collective turned a once sleepy, small town of 6, 000 into a city with massive high-rise buildings and a population of exactly 67, 881 in 1989.
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Mea culpas also came from those who were now stranded at the top of high-rise buildings or stuck in areas with no power, hot water and dwindling food supplies.
One expert in the UAE has estimated that 70% of the high-rise buildings there have panel facade cladding made of a combustible thermoplastic core held between two sheets of aluminium.
In her letter to Mr Pickles, she has recommended the government publishes national guidance on fire safety for residents in high-rise buildings and urged local authorities to install sprinkler systems.
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