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According to a study by the Faculty of Civil Engineering from 2006, the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the General Staff is possible, it is assumed that the price would be lower than the National Stadium. The Belgrade Remains Initiative calls on citizens to defend the General Staff from demolition with their bodies
With the votes of 130 deputies, the National Assembly passed the lex specialis on November 7, which enables the demolition of the General Staff for the construction of hotels and residential towers of Donald Trump's son-in-law. Lex specialis was passed even though it repeals the Law on Cultural Heritage and makes provisions that are not in accordance with the Law on Cultural Heritage, the Law on Planning and Construction, and even the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia.
A day after that, Forbes published "Opinion on the removal of destroyed and damaged parts of the facilities of the General Staff of the Army of Serbia and Montenegro and the Ministry of Defense of the Army of Serbia and Montenegro from the aspect of technical possibilities, safety and the total cost of the works."
The collapse has not been proven.
The authors of this document are professors of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade, and it was prepared in May 2006.
The lex specialis states that the buildings of the General Staff are threatened with collapse. Retired professor Dušan Najdanović, one of the authors of the Technical Control of the project, says that there is not a single document that proves this, and points out that the projects determined that there is a possibility of rehabilitation that would foresee the removal of part of building A, which would later be extended and connected to the two parts that are still standing today. It also confirms that building B is in a more favorable situation, that is, it is mostly stable.
"Both buildings can certainly be saved. Building B is missing one and a half floors in the affected part and one of the pillars is broken, but that can be solved. Also, a new structure would be built on the site of the collapsed part of building A and connected to the remaining parts. We should also check what is with the foundations of the buildings, but they are probably good because there was no damage from the explosions," said Najdanović.
Price
He estimates that the rehabilitation would cost several tens of millions of euros and says that it is not terribly expensive as the authorities say. "The National Stadium is terribly expensive," he says.
Also that "it would be a disaster if it all came crashing down. I can't fathom that anyone would have thought of that."
It is not known why the Government of Serbia, which decided a year ago to deprive the General Staff of its status as a cultural property, as well as the Parliament of Serbia, which passed the law on its demolition yesterday, did not take into account this document of the Faculty of Civil Engineering.
Defense General Staff
Also on November 8, the "Belgrade Remains" initiative announced that it invites all those who love Belgrade to sign up and join the joint defense of the General Staff buildings.
"Our mission is the concentration of all social forces - professional, cultural, civic and institutional, in a single strategy for the defense of the General Staff, the law and the state. After meeting with all interested organizations, we will prepare an action plan, which includes guards, a camp and everything that will be needed to physically disable them and preserve the General Staff complex," announced the "Belgrade Remains" Initiative.
Source: Forbes/FoNet
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