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"Bawen Building" Wenyuan Building's outer wall burst like a dangerous building. Political parties urge repairs: it's a collapsed time bomb

2022-06-24T08:19:07.827Z


One of the redevelopment areas of the Urban Renewal Authority's "Yuwang Study", commonly known as "Pak Man House", a unit on the ground floor of Man Yuen Building, Man Wah New Village in Jordan, has cracks in the outer wall, about two feet long and about 2 cm wide, and is accused of collapsing crisis. Jingmin


One of the redevelopment areas of the Urban Renewal Authority's "Yuwang Study", commonly known as "Pak Man House", a unit on the ground floor of Man Yuen Building, Man Wah New Village in Jordan, has cracks in the outer wall, about two feet long and about 2 cm wide, and is accused of collapsing crisis.

Criticized by the Pakatan Harapan today (24th), after receiving help in July last year, the Buildings Department only conducted basic inspections without issuing repair orders, etc., making the dangerous building a "collapse time bomb". Wu Cai promised to install an "I-frame" reinforcement for the units involved.


The Pakatan Harapan urged the government to add to the URA maintenance fund before the start of the redevelopment project, to encourage owners to rebuild, and to adopt the "joint building joint management" scheme to provide joint basic management for the "three-nil buildings" in the district, so as to improve the public Living Environment.


Cracks appeared on the outer wall of one of the units on the first floor of Wenyuan Building in "Bawen Building". The cracks extended from the window. The cracks were about 1 to 2 centimeters wide and about two feet long.

(Photo by Liang Pengwei)

The crack is about two feet long and 1 to 2 cm wide

The reporter went to the Wenyuan Building to inspect the building. There was a crack in the outer wall of one of the units on the first floor of the building. The crack was about two feet long. The crack extended from the window and was about 1 to 2 centimeters wide. There were two iron pillars supporting the outer wall. .

According to the pictures circulating on the Internet, there is a "dangerous building" on Ferry Street in Jordan. The unit is full of many thick and long cracks. The concrete peeling is serious, and even the steel bars are exposed. The safety situation is questionable. Whether the unit has cracks in the exterior wall.

▼Directly hit the "Bawen Building" Wenyuan Building's outer wall burst▼


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The district director pointed out that the BD did not issue a repair order after receiving help in July last year

Chen Shaotang, the district director of the Pakatan Harapan, said that he had received requests from residents and corporations in July last year, pointing out that there were cracks in the outer walls, and he was worried that it would affect the structural safety of the building. He immediately asked the Buildings Department to follow up, but the department only dispatched staff. We went to the site to investigate the condition of the exterior wall, but no repair order was issued to the stakeholders of the exterior wall. The OC could only temporarily reinforce it on its own, making the problem of the dangerous building a time bomb.

He mentioned that the construction of Bawen Building began in the 1960s, with an average age of more than 50 years. Each building has more than 400 households, and there are countless grassroots subdivided houses. In the past, there have been problems such as insufficient power load, water seepage and concrete spalling. Residents have been deeply troubled, receiving double-digit complaints every week.

▼"Bawen Building" The outer wall of a unit in Wenyuan Building, Wenhua New Village, burst▼


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The Pakatan Harapan also mentioned that after the Urban Renewal Authority announced the "Yu Mong Study" last year, the building corporations and residents in Yau Tsim Mong District are looking forward to acquisition and reconstruction, which has caused the building to fall into disrepair and become a collapsed "time bomb".

The party put forward five suggestions on the incident, including requiring the Buildings Department to strengthen active inspections, the URA industry to increase the maintenance fund for future redevelopment areas, so that the public will not be constrained by economic problems and ignore the risk of building disrepair, and make good use of technology to explore and predict problems. buildings, the implementation of "joint building management", and the establishment of a task force for large-scale redevelopment.

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Source: hk1

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