Ha Noi to rebuild old apartment buildings
VGP - The Ha Noi municipal Department of Construction has been assigned to finalise the reconstruction of old apartment buildings in the city in 2016-2020 and the next years, according to the Ha Noi People’s Committee
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The Department of Construction was assigned to present the plan to the Prime Minister and the municipal People’s Council before January 31 in 2017
The plan should be able to state the number of apartments and apartment buildings that need reconstruction, identify related tasks and assign them to concerned parties, and present a clear pathway for the reconstruction process, according to the committee.
Ha Noi’s Department of Planning and Architecture proposed that the committee be in charge of the overall classification of different types of old apartment buildings and give directions to the urban architecture and planning process to facilitate reconstruction of the buildings.
The old apartment projects are located across the city. They are listed among 42 shabby apartment buildings in Ha Noi which are at risk of collapse because most of them were constructed before the 1980s.
Statistics of the department showed Ha Noi now has around 1,516 old apartment buildings of two to five floors, with most of them built in the 1960s-1990s.
Most of the apartments have their areas widened twice and their population is around 1.5 times higher than their initial designs.
In addition to deterioration, most of the old apartment buildings are not equipped with fire prevention and fighting systems.
By Vien Nhu
