The attempts to tackle high winds at the base of Aedas's problematic 32-storey Bridgewater Place tower in Leeds rumbles on. At the reconvened inquest last week into the tragic death of a 36-year-old man, killed in March 2011 when a lorry was blown on top of him, the skyscraper's owners confessed that remediation work was unlikely to start until next year. According to the Yorkshire Post, the consultant team, which includes TP Bennett and Buro Happold, had tried 'nearly 30 different combinations of baffles and other structures before a working solution was found'. As a result, a planning application is not now expected until much later this year. Meanwhile the council has branded the building, completed in 2007, a 'legal nuisance'.
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