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Building Construction Before Mechanization
Jerry-building may be defined as shoddy practices that result in unsafe or
dangerously substandard structures, that flout existing building regulations by
substituting faulty or inferior materials or by utilizing adulterated, damaged,
inadequate or ...
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Post-Construction Liability and Insurance
JERRY-BUILDING A builder who builds flimsily and cheaply to reduce his outlay
is a jerry-builder.15 The term jerry-building may mostly be used about contractors
but it is, in fact, applicable to any party who knowingly delivers sub-quality work ...
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Architectural Technology
... thus endangering life both during construction work and after. Such practices
were, and still are, known as 'jerry-building', a term used to describe shoddy
practices which lead to substandard, unsafe structures, often flouting regulations
...
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Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese ...
Conder had drawn a distinction, however, between skilful daiku and jerry-
building brick-masons. As a British architect, he could not have overcome the
irony of referring to daiku, the very model for the Western craftsman, as jerry-
builders.
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Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the ...
Driving down costs gave rise, in turn, to charges of poor quality 'jerry building'.
The private builders paid too much attention to the superficialities of style, rather
than the soundness of construction, it was argued. They also sought to speed up
...
There was no litter on the sidewalk in front of Jerry's building, no dandelions on
the lawn. No spilling Dumpsters, only a row oftidy garbage cans.Jerry would get
along well with Hazel, Kate decided. Kate got off by the liquor store and bought a
...
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Semi-Detached Empire: Suburbia and the Colonization of ...
Moreover, as Conrad recalls in A Personal Record, a variant of the term came up
during his master mariner's exam, when he was asked how he would construct a
“jury-rudder” (188).21 In any case, although jerry building and speculative ...
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Too Blessed to be Depressed
Just as the jerry building districts in their day had sprung up with the arrival of
mortgage financing, so too was urban renewal facilitated by financial innovation:
urban renewal funds, the 'interim balance ruling' and individual rent subsidy.
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Aristocracy and People: Britain, 1815-1865
Even in the rows of workers' houses on the outskirts there were examples of jerry-
building. During the Napoleonic Wars, when costs of materials, land and labour
rose sharply, the temptations before the small builder must have been great.
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Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of ...
Damn the Empire! It was England! It was Bemerton Parsonage that mattered!
What did we want with an Empire! It was only a jerry-building Jew like Disraeli
that could have provided us with that jerry-built name! The Tories said they had to
...
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George Kerevan: Edinburgh green belt plan is murky
... of their own city – free of speculative booms, jerry-building and secret deals. I never voted in any council matter where EDI had involvement. «Scotsman, 十月 14»
Why our trust will survive Rolf Harris's abuse
... in road design and sat-navs, in civil engineers; we do not think that overpasses and bridges will collapse through negligent jerry-building (as ... «Telegraph.co.uk, 七月 14»
Historic day monarch visited grand hall
... thousands of old bricks; and to prevent the magnificent trees being felled for jerry-building and road”. The grand building was Aston Hall. «Birmingham Mail, 五月 14»
System Focus: Adam Harper on the Divine Surrealism of Epic …
... jerry-building a mock-epic (anti-)hero's tale along the way. Standalone tracks can be found on DBHB's Bandcamp and Soundcloud accounts, ... «The FADER, 五月 14»
The men who made Glasgow great, and why we're still paying the …
"The surviving 19th-century tenements were very well built, unlike lots of the shoddy jerry-building in the 20th century. "Every city has social ... «Herald Scotland, 三月 14»
Another enormous con job
The result of this jerry-building is an unwieldy creation in which the joins are all too apparent. Gibney would have been better off junking the ... «Irish Independent, 二月 14»
A Scottish constitution to serve the common weal
The latest example of Westminster's constitutional jerry-building was announced this week. In a bid to solve the notorious West Lothian problem ... «Herald Scotland, 七月 13»
Coalition Government: can they make it work?
... just a patched-up piece of political jerry-building necessitated by an unsatisfactory election outcome. But it gets off to the worst possible start. «Telegraph.co.uk, 五月 10»
