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  2. Leaky homes crisis - Wikipedia

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    Leaky homes crisis. The leaky homes crisis is an ongoing construction and legal crisis in New Zealand concerning timber-framed homes built from 1988 to 2004 that were not fully weather-tight. The problems often include the decay of timber framing which, in extreme cases, have made buildings structurally unsound.

  3. Leaky condo crisis - Wikipedia

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    Leaky condo crisis. Low-rise residential building undergoing repairs to correct apparent "leaky condo syndrome" in Vancouver's West Point Grey neighborhood, 2014. The leaky condo crisis, also known as the leaky condo syndrome and rotten condo crisis, is an ongoing construction, financial, and legal crisis in Canada.

  4. New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development

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    By the end of 2021, the City of New York financed more than 200,000 affordable homes since 2014, breaking the all-time record previously set by former Mayor Ed Koch. [3] The Agency also enforces the City's Housing Maintenance Code, [4] which covers heat and hot water, mold, pests, gas leaks, fire safety, and more. HPD performs over 500,000 ...

  5. Another 200,000 homes in 10 years? Columbus betting on zoning ...

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    Central Ohio must add around 200,000 housing units throughout the next 10 years as the region's population begins to swell to more than 3.1 million, said Columbus City Councilman Rob Dorans. As of ...

  6. Code for Sustainable Homes - Wikipedia

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    Compliance with higher levels of the Code is voluntary, with a long-term view for step-change increases. Landowners and agents sell sites with stipulations to build at certain Code levels. The extra-over cost of building to Code Level 3 was valued around £2000-3000. Additionally the Code assessment cost around £2000 for a small project.

  7. Leaky abstraction - Wikipedia

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    Leaky abstraction. In software development, a leaky abstraction is an abstraction that leaks details that it is supposed to abstract away. [1] As coined by Joel Spolsky, the Law of Leaky Abstractions states: [2] All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. This statement highlights a particularly problematic cause of software ...

  8. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, response codes are used to describe a mode of response for an emergency unit responding to a call. They generally vary but often have three basic tiers: Code 3: Respond to the call using lights and sirens. Code 2: Respond to the call with emergency lights, but without sirens. Alternatively, sirens may be used if necessary ...

  9. Side-channel attack - Wikipedia

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    Because side-channel attacks rely on the relationship between information emitted (leaked) through a side channel and the secret data, countermeasures fall into two main categories: (1) eliminate or reduce the release of such information and (2) eliminate the relationship between the leaked information and the secret data, that is, make the leaked information unrelated, or rather uncorrelated ...