Scaffolding

LONDON - For more than half a century, the handbook for how developing countries can grow rich hasn't changed much: Move subsistence farmers into manufacturing jobs, and then sell what they produce to the rest of the world.

Four Albanians* died after a construction scaffolding collapsed in Hamburg, DPA reported, referring to the German emergency services.

As reported by Bild, the accident happened around 9:10 a.m. when the scaffolding collapsed on several floors, burying at least eight workers.
About 700 construction workers are currently being evacuated from the large construction site.
Several ambulances and paramedics are on the scene.

After an inspection ordered by the Supreme Administrative Prosecutor's Office 5092 breaches of construction safety regulations were found in the country only in December. The inspection was provoked by an incident at a construction site in near the Dimitar Petkov market  in Sofia, where one worker died and several others were injured.

Ljubljana – Representatives of the Slovenian event industry are erecting a New Year tree in Ljubljana’s Congress Square made from stage scaffolding and lights in order to warn about the sector having ground to an almost complete halt in 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis, and about the financial troubles of its employees.

A Banksy mural, covered up by builders' hoarding and scaffolding for the past few months, will be uncovered on Nov. 11 in the heart of London's Notting Hill area.

The 35-year-old leader of Venezuela's National Assembly showed off his passport before climbing onto scaffolding and pumping his fist during the demonstration in Caracas.

Design Boom  -  The london mastaba, a temporary sculpture by world-renowned artist christo, has opened in london's hyde park.the public work, which consists of horizontally stacked colorful barrels on a floating platform, will be on view until september 23, 2018 on the park's serpentine lake.

Residents living on number 45 on Nikola Petkov Boulevard in Stara Zagora complained about falling vertical elements from terraces,reports Bgnes.  

About 200 people occupy the 72 apartments in the block, each of the terraces have five vertical tiles. Some of them have already fallen, their outer cover is gone, and the only thing left is the reinforcing net.

At least 67 people were killed by the collapse of the work platform at a power plant cooling tower that was under construction, in China, Thursday, state media reported. Two others were injured and one worker was missing.