New Taipei City Buildings Marked Dangerous After Hualien Earthquake: Exposed Steel Bars and Corner-Cutting Sparks Outrage – Investigation Demanded

2024-04-09 07:58:08
2024-04-09 15:58 United Daily News reporter Li Dingyu/New Taipei Instant Report

After the Hualien earthquake on the 3rd of this month, 12 buildings in New Taipei City were marked with red or yellow notices as dangerous buildings. Among them, 53 households and more than 80 people were evacuated from the “Taipei Family” on Yanhe Road, Tucheng. New Taipei has the most. The community chairman held a press conference today to criticize the exposed steel bars after the earthquake and found that the steel bars had been cut corners and asked the New Taipei City Government to conduct a thorough investigation. Councilor Lin Mingren also asked the city government’s cross-bureau project office to establish a single window to assist disaster victims.

A 31-year-old community house in Taipei has an 8-story building. The earthquake caused cement blocks to fall off the support columns of the community and exposed steel bars. Community residents called up the structural diagram and believed that the steel bars were suspected of jerry-rigging. The chairman surnamed Xue said that two support columns in the community were knocked down, cement blocks fell, and the steel bars inside were twisted and deformed. After careful inspection, it was found that there should be 20 main steel bars in the support columns, but there were only 13 in total, and all should have been Use thicker No. 10 steel bars and turn some into No. 8 steel bars.

The chairman surnamed Xue said that the horizontal reinforcement part was originally supposed to be a bundle of three steel bars, but became a bundle of one; the No. 4 thick steel bars were also changed to No. 3. The two support pillars were also cut down on materials. The visible parts have been found to have been cut off, and there are other invisible parts. It is suspected that they were systematically reduced in construction. He said that the residents are ordinary people who don’t know how to deal with it. He hopes that the relevant departments of the city government can send people to clarify the truth and require the builder to take responsibility.

City Councilor Lin Mingren said that in the list of relief items issued by the Executive Yuan for the 0403 Hualien Earthquake, victims can apply for emergency assistance, heavy housing subsidies, rent subsidies, reinforcement of weak floors of buildings, loan extensions, etc., but all must be assisted by local governments. Registration, recognition, and subsequent reconstruction and repair of homes are not something ordinary people can complete alone.

A pro-community in Taipei, Tucheng, has been put on a yellow list and residents are no longer able to move in. Reporter Li Dingyu/Photography The community chairman said that both the main ribs and the binding ribs were cut corners. Reporter Li Dingyu/Photography Residents chanted slogans at the scene demanding that the government thoroughly investigate whether the builder was cutting corners. Reporter Li Dingyu/Photography After the earthquake, cement blocks fell and steel bars were twisted in the community support area.Reporter Li Dingyu/Photography

Lin Mingren said that it involves many projects and urban renewal parts that cannot be handled by the limited manpower and material resources of the Tucheng District Government. He called on the New Taipei City Government to form a team from across the bureaus and establish a single window to assist the victims and help the affected households rebuild as soon as possible. home.

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