Sentence examples for substandard building from inspiring English sources

It is an important work which, on one level, can be seen as a comment on the substandard building methods used for regional government building projects.

Chinese officials said that the magnitude of the earthquake was to blame, but experts blamed poor design, substandard building work and lax enforcement of standards.

The earthquake provided the first hard evidence that millions of people in many of the world's most populous cities are at risk from earthquakes because of widespread use of reinforced concrete and substandard building practices, experts said.

A larger 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit the neighbouring Sichuan province in 2008, leaving almost 90,000 people dead or missing and sparking a huge political storm over corruption and substandard building work that meant that many schools were unable to withstand the quake.

The causes of the collapse were the addition of an unpermitted, poorly engineered four stories coupled with substandard building materials.

Consequently we have identified many ecological as well as social problems in the coastal settlements: inadequate planning of infrastructure and facilities, illegal and substandard building, aesthetically questionable constructions and divided communities.

Here a governmental body condemns an entire area, frequently one containing a number of substandard buildings and inappropriately mixed land uses, and then razes the area.

The result is that concrete for even very large homes is often made in a batch process on site, which can result in substandard buildings with significant structural flaws.

The strip of land north of Giants Stadium along Patterson Plank Road, in particular, is plagued by "substandard buildings, flooding problems, obstacles against pedestrians and poor traffic circulation," the commission said, citing an acute need for revitalization.

During roughly the same period, the number of families with children in "worst case" housing situations — meaning that they spend more than half of their income on housing or that they live in hazardous, substandard buildings — grew to 3.3 million from 2.2 million.

It's the educational system that punishes our kids more harshly than white kids for the same offense; that gives us substandard buildings, learning materials, and teachers, then sends us to jail for minor offenses: the school to prison pipeline.