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Lift ceiling in Pasir Ris falls and injures family
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SINGAPORE - Technical producer Mohammad Yazid Razali was heading home with his family last Thursday (Nov 10) evening when an ordinary lift ride took a tumble for the worse.

Part of the lift's ceiling at Block 480, Pasir Ris Drive 4, fell and hit Mr Yazid, his 63-year-old father and his two-year-old son.

"It just dropped on us suddenly and landed on our heads. Everybody was shocked," said Mr Yazid, 36, who was there for a dinner gathering at his parents' and grandfather's home.

While Mr Yazid escaped without injuries, the boy - his youngest child - ended up with a bump on his head. His father was scratched by the metal panel, which was left dangling on what seemed like a wire.

His wife and two older daughters, who were also in the lift at the time, were not hit.

Mr Yazid dialed the emergency number in the lift and also informed the Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council, before heading to a nearby 24-hour clinic. The doctor said the injuries were not serious.

But Mr Yazid, who lives in an HDB flat in Woodlands, said: "I am angry. What kind of lift is this?"

"My son cried loudly and had nightmares after. Now he's traumatised and afraid to enter lifts."

He hopes something can be done to prevent such incidents from recurring. "It's lucky that I am tall and absorbed a lot of the impact (from the dislodged ceiling)," said Mr Yazid, who stands at 1.84m.

"But my grandfather and parents use the two lifts in the block every day. There are also quite a number of elderly and kids who live there. I am worried that something might happen to them."

He is planning to seek compensation for the $128 that his family spent at the clinic.

This episode comes on the back of recent incidents which saw people getting injured in lifts and facade parts falling off Housing Board blocks.

The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) told The Straits Times it was alerted to last week's incident on Friday (Nov 11), and investigations are ongoing to determine the reason for the ceiling's dislodgement.

"When BCA engineers were on site to inspect the lift, they found that the dislodged ceiling panel had already been put back into place," a spokesman said.

She added that the lift contractor has conducted checks on lifts within the vicinity, and that BCA has not received any report on similar incidents.

MP for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC Zainal Sapari said that the town council is retrieving the CCTV camera footage to find out what happened last week.

"The urgent thing is to look at the cause of it and decide on any necessary action," said Mr Zainal, who is also chairman of Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council.

"We have told the family that we will look into compensation when the investigation is over," he added.

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/housing/lift-ceiling-in-pasir-ris-falls-and-injures-family
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

What an omen!

Everything's starting to unravel.....

The purple aura that protected Zikapore from evil dissipated when Old Fart passed away.

Will one of the carriages of SMRT train while ferrying commuters derail in the next 12 months?
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

What if the stairs collapsed?
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

PAP TC will say that it is not their problem ...it is the previous opposition run TC's fault.

PAP is the best government compared to Trump's.
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

victim must contact

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Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

Pls get a lawyer to sue HDB.. HDB is a public housing housing, so is their responsibility to make sure everything is maintained well.
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

Who did the residents vote for?
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

I doubt that one can sue HDB because they are the gov't. :confused:
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

Take HDB lift must wear helmet
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

Pls get a lawyer to sue HDB.. HDB is a public housing housing, so is their responsibility to make sure everything is maintained well.

Sinkies only them of themselves, never for the community. A $100 NTUC voucher should keep the m&d quiet.
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

Take HDB lift must wear helmet

pls dont give hdB idea.

it onli benefit crass-looter like johntan
and inconvenience sillypootians.

johntan will be the first to import special helmets for riding a lift.
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

Mr Yazid dialed the emergency number in the lift and also informed the Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council, before heading to a nearby 24-hour clinic. The doctor said the injuries were not serious.

But Mr Yazid, who lives in an HDB flat in Woodlands, said: "I am angry. What kind of lift is this?"

ah Ya Zid should asked what kind of garberment is tis
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

Didn't Lawless Wrong just said that HDB blocks are safer then ever? Is he a lying piece of shit then?

Parliament: HDB blocks safer than before, says Lawrence Wong addressing falling HDB parts
YEO SAM JO

SINGAPORE - Housing Board blocks are "safer than before", as the HDB continuously improves its designs and uses safe and reliable building methods, National Development Minister Lawrence Wong assured the House on Monday (Nov 7).

He was responding to Workers' Party chief Low Thia Khiang (Aljunied GRC), who had asked about HDB's guidelines in building design and material use.

The safety of HDB blocks had come up in the light of a recent spate of incidents in which block facade parts fell off.

Picking up on Mr Wong's point that HDB is a "good developer" that does its own regular checks on its buildings, Mr Low had asked "whether HDB is also a good designer" that comes up with safe designs and uses durable materials.

"Part of the requirements of being a good developer is to be a good designer too," Mr Wong replied.

"So HDB of course will always try its best. I won't say that we are perfect. Some of these buildings were done many, many years ago.

"But continuously year after year HDB will always look at improving its design, its guidelines, the way it builds and makes sure that it uses quality materials.

"It uses building methods that are reliable and safe. And if you look at the way this has been done progressively over the years, I can say for sure that the methods have improved and the materials are more reliable and our buildings are safer than before."

In the light of the recent falling facade incidents, MPs Christopher de Souza (Holland-Bukit Timah GRC ), Cheng Li Hui (Tampines GRC), Tin Pei Ling (MacPherson) and Tan Wu Meng (Jurong GRC) had asked about current measures in place to ensure the safety of HDB block facades.

Mr Wong said his ministry will review its policies and benchmark them against other high-rise, high-density cities to identify areas for improvement.

The Building and Construction Authority previously told The Straits Times that it is studying the regimes of cities such as Hong Kong and New York and exploring ways to step up building facade safety here.

Currently, building owners are required to appoint a professional engineer to carry out a Periodic Structural Inspection - every 10 years for residential buildings and five years for other buildings.

Such checks cover only structural parts such as beams and columns, and exclude facade elements such as false ceilings, sunshades and cladding boards, which were involved in the recent incidents.

Mr Wong pointed out that for older HDB blocks, this Periodic Structural Inspection is carried out every five years - more frequently than the stipulated 10-year cycle.

When asked by Mr Pritam Singh (Aljunied GRC) what is defined as an "older" HDB block, Mr Wong said age is not the basis in which the HDB looks at older blocks.

"HDB will look at risks and will also look at materials in that particular building, how they were used," Mr Wong explained.

"So if you look at older blocks generally, say, those built in the 80s, 70s, certainly the materials used then not just by HDB, by any developer then, are very different from the materials used today.

"So rather than have a specific year and say everything before that qualifies, everything after that doesn't qualify, we will look at building materials, we will look at the conditions and naturally we will give greater focus on the older blocks, as I think all town councils should within their own risk-based assessment and inspection."

Town councils are responsible for their maintenance of HDB building facades under the Town Councils Act.

In 2004, the HDB implemented a co-payment scheme in which it foots half of the repair cost incurred by town councils to repair external facade finishes of HDB blocks.

Mr Singh asked if the National Development Ministry would consider increasing this co-payment for town councils that have a larger number of older blocks under their care.

Mr Wong said they are "always prepared" to review and update their schemes and upgrading programmes, but added that town councils should do what is necessary first.

"I think first and foremost we would ask all town councils to abide by their requirements and their responsibilities and make sure that adequate provisions are put in place to maintain their estates well," he said.

Over the past two months, a sunshade, two ceilings and a cladding board have dislodged from HDB blocks in four separate episodes.

No one was injured in any of the incidents.

On Sept 25, a concrete sunshade on the fourth storey of Block 201E, Tampines Street 23, fell onto another sunshade on the third storey.

On Oct 9, several ceiling boards fell during lunchtime at a coffee shop at Block 148, Silat Avenue in Bukit Merah.

About a week later, on Oct 17, a false ceiling at the void deck of Block 807, Tampines Avenue 4, collapsed after termites attacked the wooden frame that held it up.

Most recently, a cladding board made from calcium silicate came off Block 51, Circuit Road in MacPherson, and crashed to the ground.

Investigations into the Tampines sunshade and Circuit Road incidents are ongoing.

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapor...ling-hdb-parts
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

PAP TC will say that it is not their problem ...it is the previous opposition run TC's fault.

PAP is the best government compared to Trump's.

They will blame delay by AHTC ( in finalising its financial statements for FY2015) for impacting/distracting the work of the PRPTC.
Anyway even if people die (like in SGH from hepatitis) also nobody lose their jobs-so what are you gonna do about it?
LSH more concerned about TPP, Teo with elected P, Charles about the transfer of sinking funds, Zainal about NTUC, Janil with teachers ect2-

that's what you get for part time MP's -you ASKED FOR IT PASIR RIS !
 
Re: Pasir Ris lift ceiling collapses, injures family - ActiveSG wants you to use stai

How come every time they bring up AHTC issues, this kind of things happens in PAP ward?

Some kind of one finger pointing outside four fingers pointing back at themselves?
 
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