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[h=2]PRC constuction company Jingye in the news again[/h]
July 5th, 2014 |
Author: Editorial
Last Friday (27 Jun), TRE published an article highlighting that new residents moving into HDB BTO flats in Anchorvale Horizon at Seng Kang were complaining about the defects and poor workmanship found in their newly completed flats (‘Complaints against poor workmanship in new HDB flats‘).
It was so bad that the grassroots leaders at Anchorvale Horizon were themselves complaining about the problem too. The grassroots leaders even roped in Seng Kang West MP Lam Pin Min to visit Anchorvale Horizon just to show him how terrible the defects are.
As it turned out, the construction company responsible for the Anchorvale Horizon BTO project was China Jingye Engineering Corporation Limited.
Today (5 Jul), the media reported that Jingye has been told to stop work and clean up its Choa Chu Kang Avenue 1 HDB construction site, another HDB project which it has been awarded.
35 of its workers are now down with dengue. Jingye has about 900 staff – most are construction workers.
NEA said it will take the Jingye to court after an inspection of the site found four mosquito breeding areas. This is the 4th time the site has been found to be breeding mosquitoes. It has already paid fines of more than $10,000 in total for the 3 previous cases of mosquito breeding.
In addition to pleading guilty, Jingye will be apologizing to residents in the area – 22 of whom have also fallen sick.
NEA said it will check the seven construction sites in Choa Chu Kang every week. It is the neighbourhood with the most new dengue cases in the last fortnight.
One resident blamed the construction sites. He said, “Before those came up, we never had so many people with dengue.”
Jingye is a Beijing-headquartered, wholly state-owned company of China. It is a subsidiary of Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd (MCC), which is listed in Hong Kong and Shanghai [Link].
It was also found that in the various projects in Singapore, Jingye’s work-sites had been issued with Stop Work Orders (SWO) by the Manpower Ministry (MOM) [Link] 5 times since 2008:
It was so bad that the grassroots leaders at Anchorvale Horizon were themselves complaining about the problem too. The grassroots leaders even roped in Seng Kang West MP Lam Pin Min to visit Anchorvale Horizon just to show him how terrible the defects are.
As it turned out, the construction company responsible for the Anchorvale Horizon BTO project was China Jingye Engineering Corporation Limited.
Today (5 Jul), the media reported that Jingye has been told to stop work and clean up its Choa Chu Kang Avenue 1 HDB construction site, another HDB project which it has been awarded.
35 of its workers are now down with dengue. Jingye has about 900 staff – most are construction workers.
NEA said it will take the Jingye to court after an inspection of the site found four mosquito breeding areas. This is the 4th time the site has been found to be breeding mosquitoes. It has already paid fines of more than $10,000 in total for the 3 previous cases of mosquito breeding.
In addition to pleading guilty, Jingye will be apologizing to residents in the area – 22 of whom have also fallen sick.
NEA said it will check the seven construction sites in Choa Chu Kang every week. It is the neighbourhood with the most new dengue cases in the last fortnight.
One resident blamed the construction sites. He said, “Before those came up, we never had so many people with dengue.”
Jingye is a Beijing-headquartered, wholly state-owned company of China. It is a subsidiary of Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd (MCC), which is listed in Hong Kong and Shanghai [Link].
It was also found that in the various projects in Singapore, Jingye’s work-sites had been issued with Stop Work Orders (SWO) by the Manpower Ministry (MOM) [Link] 5 times since 2008:
- Mar 2013
- Apr 2013
- Jun 2011
- Aug 2009
- Nov 2008
