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Discover LudwigThe phrase "at risk building" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to refer to a building that is at risk of damage or failure, but it lacks clarity and proper grammatical structure.
Example: "The city has identified several at-risk buildings that need immediate attention to prevent potential hazards."
Alternatives: "vulnerable building" or "hazard-prone structure."
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The next "at risk" building is not yet 50 years old - the Catholic church of St Thomas More, at Sheldon in Birmingham.
To grow, it needs to persuade investors to put their money at risk, building a new hotel or enlarging a pre-existing one.
Chris Read, the leader of Rotherham borough council, said of the new project: "We know from Professor Jay's findings and from what victims and survivors have told us that projects like this can make a real difference, reaching out to young people who might be at risk, building trust and supporting those who may become victims".
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So is a parking garage on the first floor of an at-risk building: cars are moved, water comes in and out, cars go back.
Caroline Stanford, a historian and head of engagement at the Landmark Trust, said the building was "the most important at-risk building in Wales" when the trust began a painstaking process of restoration, partly thanks to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Retrofit programs for these at-risk buildings have been proposed with the first such program in a major city mandated in San Francisco in 2013.
English Heritage has set itself a target of reducing by a quarter the number of at-risk buildings from its 2010 survey by 2015.
The annual list of once-celebrated structures, compiled by the Victorian Society, is dominated by "at-risk" buildings in the north and for the first time features none in London or the south-east.
The Landmark Trust is a charity that restores at-risk buildings and lets them out for holidays.
The trust, which rescues at-risk buildings by turning them into holiday homes, is also in talks with other institutions to make the author's dream a reality.
Sectors typically have a population of about 300,000 and are relatively independent of each other in the sense that one can decide to set up a fund to rehabilitate at-risk buildings while another can choose not to do so.
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