2024-04-09 16:41 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, the support pillars of the “Taipei Family” community on Yanhe Road, Tucheng, collapsed and the steel bars were twisted. 53 households , more than 80 people were evacuated. Residents found that exposed steel bars were suspected of being cut corners, and demanded that the builder Jihong Construction be held responsible. The supervisor is the current legislator Zhang Zhilun. Zhang Zhilun said that the company changed ownership about 13 years ago. In the 1990s, the condition of the building was unclear. He is now making a proposal in the Legislative Yuan to ask the Executive Yuan to refer to the 921 Reconstruction Ordinance or the “0403 Major Earthquake Disaster Special Ordinance.” “Assist the victims.
Residents of the “Taipei Family” community were forced to evacuate their homes after the earthquake. Mud blocks collapsed from the building’s support columns and the steel bars were exposed and deformed. Afterwards, the residents found that the structural diagram of the building did not match the number of steel bars, and the thickness was also reduced. They suspected that work had been cut, and they requested the city government to thoroughly Check and the builder, Jihong Construction, is responsible.
This newspaper checked the website of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and found that the current legislator of New Taipei City, Zhang Zhilun, is the company’s supervisor. Zhang Zhilun said that the construction project was built in 1990. He was only 8 years old at the time and had no knowledge of it, and he could only become a director if he was 20 years old or above. , supervisor, said that this construction project has nothing to do with him.
He said that after asking about Jihong Construction, he learned that the Taipei Family was built in 1990. Jihong Construction was bought about 13 years ago and changed hands in about 2010. The company representative at that time was also the same as the current representative. People are different and do not understand the business conditions of the company before it changed ownership.
Zhang Zhilun said that today in the Legislative Yuan, there is also a proposal for the Hualien earthquake. There are 42 red-listed dangerous buildings in Taiwan, 70 yellow-listed buildings, and 693 buildings that do not need to be posted with danger signs. However, the Executive Yuan has only allocated 300 million yuan to aid the Hualien earthquake. Compared with the special reconstruction regulations during the September 21 earthquake, it is far from enough.
Mud collapsed and the steel bars deformed after the earthquake at the “Taipei Family” community. Reporter Li Dingyu/Photography Current legislator Zhang Zhilun is the supervisor of Jihong Construction. Photo/reproduced from the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ website. Residents of the “Taipei Family” gathered together today to hope for the city government’s assistance in post-disaster reconstruction. Reporter Li Dingyu/Photography The residents showed their usage licenses and asked the builder Jihong Construction to take responsibility.Reporter Li Dingyu/Photography
Zhang Zhilun said that in order to help the affected households overcome the difficulties and rebuild their homes as soon as possible, it is recommended that the Executive Yuan should refer to the 921 Reconstruction Ordinance or propose the “0403 Major Earthquake Disaster Special Ordinance” in accordance with the Budget Law to help obtain more budgets and respond to the people’s post-disaster reconstruction , repair needs.
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