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The electronic MCP is a new way to survey, manage and create a Maintenance Control Program for all units under your control. Using a web-based maintenance management system, data such as age, use and environment is gathered from your specific unit and analyzed to automatically generate an annual MCP.
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TASMANIA’S TALLEST ON TAP
A two-tower development in Hobart, Tasmania, would include the island's tallest building, a 120-m-tall, 35-story hotel developed by Singapore billionaire James Koh's Fragrance Group at 28-30 Davey Street, ABC News reports. The plan also includes a 75-m-tall, 20-story hotel at 2-6 Collins Street. Designed by Samuel Haberle with the main building featuring a futuristic look and landscaped cutouts, the hotels would be built over the next five years. They are an indication of the confidence Koh has in Hobart, where he is already building an approximately 300-room hotel on Macquarie Street.
29-STORY APARTMENT TOWER FOR ST. LOUIS’ BALLPARK VILLAGE
A 29-story apartment tower is part of St. Louis' Ballpark Village phase two, a US$220-million project of baseball's St. Louis Cardinals and Cordish Cos. of Baltimore, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Designed by Hord Coplan Macht, the 310-ft.-tall building would house approximately 300 apartments. It would be joined by low- to mid-rise office and retail buildings, which would start being built in fall 2017. The Cardinals said the project would produce approximately 1,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs. It is being made possible by an improved economy and low borrowing costs, Cardinals President Bill DeWitt III said.
ESCALATOR MALFUNCTION CAUSES SCARE IN MALAYSIAN MALL
The metal plates of an escalator in a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur became detached on October 25, scaring shopkeepers and customers but resulting in no injuries, The Star reports. No one was on the escalator just after noon when the incident occurred. Observers said had it happened slightly later, the unit would have been crowded with lunch-hour customers. One shopkeeper said it was the second time in several months for such an incident to occur. The mall’s two escalators remained immobile in the wake of the malfunction.
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