No, that's the actual building, not the scaffolding.
Regards, Ivan
Posted on 03/14/2005 7:12:17 AM PST by dead
France's tallest building, the Tower of Montparnasse in Paris, contains so much asbestos that it represents a cancer risk for employees and visitors, French media reported yesterday.
According to the daily Le Parisien, the legally required technical asbestos report just presented to the tenants of the 59-storey building by the company that manages it, Adyal-Cogetom, states that there are traces of the carcinogenic substance "almost everywhere", behind the false ceilings in most offices, in the corridors and in the basement.
In addition, the weekly Journal du Dimanche reported that, according to an initial analysis carried out in 1996-1997, all of the building's common spaces and its mechanical and supervisory offices were classified category three, the highest level of asbestos pollution.
In a letter written on February 11, the lawyer for the unions representing the building's employees, Anne Willie, said: "Measures of prevention must be taken urgently to ensure the safety of the maintenance workers and the site's tenants."
About 5000 people work in the 210m high building, which was constructed between 1969 and 1972, when there were no laws against the use of asbestos.
In addition, an estimated 600,000 tourists a year visit the building due to the panoramic view it provides of the French capital.
Experts say that to rid the building of asbestos would cost up to four million euro ($6.8 million) per storey and would require totally evacuating the structure for three years.
Carrying out the work by sections would take at least 10 years.
Asbestos was used in insulation in French construction until it was legally banned at the beginning of 1997.
A powerful carcinogenic, it is considered responsible for about 4000 deaths a year in France.
DPA
Is there any surprise here...the entire nation is symbolism over sustance....
I wonder what has happened over the years to the occupants of this building? Any studies?
No, that's the actual building, not the scaffolding.
Regards, Ivan
Holy crap! It looks like it grates cheese.
No comment, it would only show my lack of sympathy.
I assure you, it's not much better on the inside. When I first visited, I asked aloud when it was going to be finished.
Regards, Ivan
I hate to bring this up, but were there any substantive findings to the rumors of asbestos in the WTC?
That looks like a still life of crumpled balls of Christmas wrapping paper.
Regards, Ivan
It use to crack me up when all the parents of New York City were up in arms over asbestos in the schools. They were protesting and calling for the administrators heads, then they would head home to their pre-60's constructed homes covered in asbestos shingling, asbestos flashing and mastic, asbestos ceiling tiles, pipe wrapping etc., and they didn't even know it. Not to mention the lead paint peeling off the walls.
There goes France surrendering again.. to asbestos....
Le Tour Montparnasse is also a horrible eyesore--the only modern skyscraper in an otherwise historic district.
Imagine the Trump Towers on Capitol Hill.
If they have to knock the damn thing down, all the better.
WTF!!! (What the fudge???)
(french accent) "huuuuhnn huuhhn le nice buildingz are tooooo Americanz.. Ve vill build le Ugly buildingz insteadz.."
True, but, after the extensive renovations, the interior is one of the most marvelous museums I have ever been in.
I'm shocked...
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