Company behind botched demolition didn’t follow regulations, says city.
In what must surely qualify as the year’s finest example of stating the obvious, Vancouver city officials have declared that the company behind last month’s double-demolition near miss “didn’t follow regulations”. (The fact that Global Excavating & Demolition Ltd twice deposited several tonnes of debris onto busy streets in just a few minutes was probably a clue).
The city’s review of the incident found the contractor did not have a written safety plan in place and did not have final clearance from the district building inspector.
The city’s chief building official on Thursday lifted the suspension of the company’s demolition permit for the site after reviewing and accepting Global’s construction safety plan for the location, payment for the damage to city property and compliance with the requirements set out for the company to do demolition work in the city, it said in a press release.
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