#building code violations

Why “cheap” can become costly—and how Brewer Contracting protects your investment In commercial construction, staying on budget is important—but cutting corners can lead to serious long-term consequences. From structural failures to code violations, the hidden costs of shortcuts often outweigh the initial savings. Brewer Contracting has seen firsthand how poor decisions by other contractors end…

As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan struggles to defend his response to last Monday's devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake, videos from a few years back have emerged showing him hailing some of the housing projects that crumbled, killing thousands of people. Critics say contractors were allowed to skip crucial safety regulations, increasing their profits but putting residents at risk. The videos have fueled public outrage over slow efforts to help residents in the aftermath of the massive earthquake — the world's deadliest in over a decade — that killed more than 35,000 people in Turkey and neighboring Syria, and left many injured and without a home, food or heating in the middle of winter. In one video, taken during a campaign stop ahead of Turkey's March 2019 local elections, Erdogan listed some of his government's top achievements — including new housing for the city of Kahramanmaras, also known as Maras, near the epicenter of last week's quake. "We solved the problem of 144,156 citizens of Maras with zoning amnesty," Erdogan said, using his term for the construction amnesties handed out to allow contractors to ignore the safety codes that had been put on the books specifically to make apartment blocks, houses and office buildings more resistant to earthquakes.

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This is my alternate exit (the fire exit) in the place I am in right now.  Anyone see anything wrong?

This is a steeel door

From outside:  You know - in case the someone wanted to help me escape from a fire - they could just grab on to???   and the fire fighters - they could just stand on the unsafe landing (whole other picture set to come later) and try and ram through the dead bolt and two sliding deadbolts??