I have been doing some research on the recovery to date trawling through hundreds of articles and interviews with people. This excerpt from what a city is experiencing in the Japanese Rebuild as a result of their Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011 is on a parallel to what we are experiencing with building projects here. The city hopes to have 4,000 new homes ready by March 2016, but at the end of 2013 only about 150 had been completed, of which around 100 were occupied. Construction blueprints quickly get caught up in a tangle of red tape that can hold up applications for planning permission by many months. Local officials complain that actual costs inevitably rise above budget allocations, as delays allow construction firms drive up their estimates. We then go back to the central government to ask for more money, and the response is: But weve already given you money, 100resilientcities.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/entry/ishinomaki-new-communities-rise-from-tsunamis-devastating-divisions
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 09:45:39 +0000
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