camplate schreef:
> I can't answer your questions but I have a one of my own. How was this building in
>Germany costing money? I can see some money, if there was security, enough
>maintenance to keep the building okay in case the project moved forward, etc. But I
>can't see how this money would be anything but a fraction of a percent of the cost to
>just build the thing in the first place.
IIRC the building of that thing started somewhere in the seventies. It took them ten
years or some such (at least it was more then the two years they had planned). Then
regulations got strickter and the building needed to be adjusted to those regulations.
During all that time there was a legal battle going on between activists the
government and the owner about the validity of the building licences and something
about building regulations and the place where the thing was built. I think they won
in court with the objections they presented and the building was initially declared
illegal. They had to stop what they were doing untill court decided in favour during
another round in court, and another and another. Then the building at last and finally
was declared legal or is
it still illegal ? I don't really know. However after some 20 odd years of legal
bickering the thing was unfinished, unsafe and obsolete and now it has to be torn down
and they still don't know how to do it. Anyway all that time it cost money to make
building modifications and adjustments to newer standards, to restart and stop
building it and to keep maintenance up during that time. It really is a multi billion
Mark wreck they built there.
Sonja
