3/7/2017-4

Two major suggestions to enhance the owners maintenance awareness

In the face of the challenges of aging in Hong Kong, Mr WEI Chi-cheng, Executive Director of URA, thinks that if building preventive maintenance is done well, building life can reach 100 years or more.

Wei Zhicheng said that to prevent the aging of the old areas, not only for the “downstream” to rebuild the old building to start, plan to “upstream” force, starting from the new building to improve the two proposals.

Prepare account guidelines for maintenance manuals

First of all, the building of the new building will require the owners of the building to set up a special account, but no clear instructions to put the amount of spare, due to the local owners of maintenance and maintenance awareness is relatively weak, not clear enough to reserve a fee is sufficient to pay the future building maintenance And other expenses, the day after the buildings encountered for regular inspection or rehabilitation, or failed to have funds in a timely manner to properly handle, it is necessary to prepare detailed guidelines to promote the public to understand.

Secondly, when the developer completes the project, the maintenance manual will be prepared for the project building so that the future property management company and the owner can carry out the maintenance of the tenement according to the manual information. However, most of the maintenance manuals are not comprehensive and generally only describe the project unit Of the accessories, inspection and simple maintenance methods, the proposed manual to join the building’s structural safety and other content for detailed instructions to improve the owners of maintenance awareness.

Wei Zhicheng said that many properties in Hong Kong only about 50 years will have to dismantle the building, it is a considerable waste of resources. He said that as long as the building of reinforced concrete and other maintenance ideal, the structure is safe, life can be more than 100 years at any time, and for example, Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok area planning, there are more than 300 old buildings, if all demolition and reconstruction, estimated cost of 150 billion Yuan, so whether the old building, or the new building, the owners have the responsibility for the property to do preventive maintenance, in order to reduce the pressure of future reconstruction of aging.