Concrete falls off Po On Building, Mong Kok Road
Concrete falls off Po On Building, Mong Kok Road
Concrete plaster on the outer wall of Po On Building on Mong Kok Road fell down the street twice within 4 days. Concrete and gravel fell like rain, and some were as big as a fist. Fortunately, no serious casualties were caused on both occasions. Mr. Ho, who was unloading goods nearby when the incident happened yesterday, heard the loud noise when the concrete fell. He admitted that he was taken aback, but fortunately, the incident happened during the off-peak period, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous. Miss Xiao, who was passing by, said that she was cut on her calf by a large piece of stone and feces. She described the injury as a “skin trauma, trivial”, but “if I walked a second or two faster, I would be hit directly by a stone. !”
Ning Hanhao, director of the Development Bureau, believes that it may be due to heavy rain, and the detailed reasons are yet to be studied by the Buildings Department. The Buildings Department issued a release in the evening stating that it is not ruled out that micro-cracks appeared on the canopy on July 2 when the canopy fell, and then it was affected by heavy rain and high temperature weather, resulting in this peeling. The Department will continue to investigate the cause of the incident.
He Juye, the former chairman of the Building Surveying Group of the Institute of Surveyors, visited the site and pointed out that some of the fragments that fell on the ground retained their arcs, which were believed to be semi-circular tiles of the canopy, and were also seen and believed to be smeared on the canopy bracket and the building The plaster at the interface of the external wall is estimated to be the tiles and plaster of the illegal canopy that fell yesterday.
2023-07-05 20:30:39
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