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From Wales (England) comes this tail (sic) of a daring ewe that saw that the grass was greener on the roof...
A BAA-MY sheep leapt onto a hospital’s “grass” covered eco-roof to graze and now a fence is to be built to keep livestock off it.
Ysbyty Alltwen, near Porthmadog, Gwynedd was built in 2009 to blend into the natural environment of south Snowdonia with local stone and an eco-friendly green roof, planted with sedum.
One daring ewe from nearby fields thought it looked so appetising it used a parked van as a stepping stone to leap onto the roof.
She would normally be thwarted by a gap of several feet between the Craig-y-Castell cliff face and the top of the building.
But when a contractor’s van parked up between the roof and the cliff the cunning sheep took its chance to test out the new greenery.
She initially climbed onto the van’s roof before leaping on the top of the hospital in Tremadog. The ewe was quickly spotted and she was safely removed after the incident last year.
Roofing Contractor Likely to Face Fines after Newly Applied Coating Washes into Creek
This is a warning to everyone who puts down coatings, roof, deck, whatever...make sure it's dry so it don't wash into da creek!
A roofing contractor that applied a white acrylic coating to the roof of a commercial building in Palo Alto, Calif., is likely to face fines after a rainstorm washed paint into a nearby creek.
City officials said approximately 25 gallons of paint entered the stormwater-runoff system and washed into Matadero Creek when the storm hit early Sunday. The paint had been applied Friday and Saturday, but some apparently had not dried and cured sufficiently before rainfall arrived.
A recent California case, Affan v. Portofino Cove HOA, highlights several important aspects of legal precedent and the judicial deference doctrine that all advocates must understand. First, in California, as applied to maintenance decisions only, the court in Lamden v. La Jolla made a reasonable clarification of the business judgment rule and established the “judicial deference” doctrine.
This court ruled:
It is important to note the narrow scope of the Lamden rule. It is a rule of deference to the reasoned decisionmaking of homeowners association boards concerning ordinary maintenance. It does not create a blanket immunity for all the decisions and actions of a homeowners association. The Supreme Court’s precise articulation of the rule makes clear that the rule of deference applies only when a homeowner sues an association over a maintenance decision that meets the enumerated criteria.
After Safeco Insurance Company of America (Safeco) denied Connie Stevens Fisher's claim for water damage to her Wyoming home, Stevens sued for breach of insurance contract. The trial court granted Safeco's motion for summary judgment and entered judgment in its favor. We affirm.
In July 2004 Stevens submitted a $67,000 claim to Safeco for damage caused by a leak from the home's terrace, which serves as the roof for a room with an indoor pool and spa, into the room below it. Stevens contended the leak resulted from a failure of the home's hydronic system, used to heat the stone on the terrace to melt snow and ice. The claim included the cost to repair the hydronic system, replace the terrace stone and repair the damage to the interior sheetrock and wood. Following inspection by a structural engineer retained by Safeco and a claims adjuster, review of the blueprints for the home and discussion with the tile setter who had installed the terrace stone, in September 2004 Safeco denied the claim, finding coverage was excluded by the water damage, weather and construction defect exclusions based in part on the structural engineer's report the leak resulted from improper construction methods and inadequate slope for the terrace.
In a December 2004 letter counsel for Stevens objected to Safeco's denial of coverage, asserting the exclusions Safeco had relied on were not found in Stevens's policy. Safeco responded it had relied on the correct Quality Crest policy form and sent counsel a certified copy of it. (It appears counsel had mistakenly believed the Quality Plus policy form sent to Stevens in late 2004 for the policy period beginning November 15, 2004 was the operative policy; Stevens canceled that policy on February 16, 2005.) Following more communications from Stevens and additional investigation, Safeco confirmed its denial of coverage in May 2005.
Speciality chemicals and materials supplier W. R. Grace & Co (NYSE: GRA | PowerRating) reported on Monday that it has completed the acquisition of the business and assets of Wuhan Meilixin New Building Materials Co Ltd (Meilixin) for an undisclosed sum.
Meilixin is a manufacturer of waterproofing products in China. The company has manufacturing facilities for the production of customisable, fit-for-use waterproofing membranes, materials and compounds, as well as administrative offices and warehousing operations in Wuhan, Hubei province. Its products include multilayer macromolecule compound membranes, self-adhesive rubber membranes, cementitious capillary crystalline waterproofing materials and macromolecule compound coatings.
The Meilixin business will be integrated into Grace Construction Products' Specialty Building Materials product group and will operate through Grace's Chinese subsidiary, Grace China Ltd.
