Building engineering

In the village of Divotino, Pernik, a formwork that had fallen onto a poured concrete slab trapped two individuals. According to the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Pernik, one person has died as a result of the incident.

Despite the well-established doctrine that "fires are extinguished in winter" - through prevention - its implementation has proven ineffective. Fire protection regulations for property owners turned out to be complex and costly. Municipalities undermined these very regulations, claiming they could neither enforce them nor collect the flammable materials.

Seven people, including a child, were injured when the ceiling of a wedding hall near Kardzhali collapsed during heavy rain shortly after 7:30 p.m. last night. The incident caused panic among the over 150 guests attending the celebration, reports BNR.

Four Communist Party MPs have tabled a question in Parliament about the fate of "thousands" of works of artists from the city of Karditsa. 

The central Greek city's municipal gallery was flooded in the disastrous storms of September 2023. The basement, where the works were stored, was completely covered in mud. 

The character of the suburbs surrounding Athens is being compromised by the country's new building regulations, which allow basements to cover entire plots of land, at the expense of trees and, by extension, an area's aesthetics, according to the mayor of Kifissia, in the north of the capital, Vasilis Xipolitas.

A partial collapse of a seven-story building in Istanbul on June 27 exposed illegal construction practices, revealing that three of the building's floors were added without authorization.

The collapse occurred in Bahçelievler district's Zafer neighborhood, revealing that three of the building's seven floors had been added illegally.

The Council of State is giving state agencies a six-month extension regarding the demolition of the top two floors of the Coco-Mat hotel in the Makrigiannis area of Athens which have been declared illegal. The extension was granted to allow sufficient time to prepare a tender for the study necessary for the demolition of the two top floors of the 12-story hotel.

The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office (SCP) is starting operations on the Anti-Corruption Fund's revelations about violations related to the selection of a contractor and the accelerated construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline through Bulgaria.

Dust and rubble fill the street as an excavator tears off chunks of concrete from an old apartment building. Bystanders and former residents watch from afar as construction equipment tears down the structure. Among the bystanders is Ibrahim Ozaydin, 30, a former resident. He watches the demolition not with worry, but with relief, as his building was marked by officials as unsafe months ago.

In the latest twist in the Mykonos saga, a new Environment Ministry legislative provision stipulates that if the Principote and Nammos bars on the island demolish all of their illegal structures by early May, they will pay a minuscule fine of just 500 euros instead of the millions first envisaged.