Gyeonggi-do Significantly Increases Workforce of 'Apartment Quality Inspection Team' to 120 Members

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province has expanded the inspection fields and personnel of the 'Apartment Quality Inspection Team.'

The province announced on the 8th that it appointed 120 private experts in various fields, including professional engineers and top-level technicians with specialized knowledge and extensive experience related to apartment construction, as the 8th Quality Inspection Team.

The province explained that in line with the nationwide expansion of the apartment quality inspection system due to the amendment of the Housing Act, which will be enforced on January 24 next year, it increased the inspection team to the maximum number of 120 members allowed by ordinance to expand the quality inspection fields.

While expanding the inspection team members, the province also reinforced members in architecture structure, soil foundation, fire safety, and traffic fields to prevent traffic accidents within apartment complexes, natural disasters such as typhoons and heavy rain, and on-site safety accidents.

The term of this Quality Inspection Team is two years, from this month until September 30, 2022. Members can be reappointed twice, allowing them to serve for up to six years.

The province introduced the quality inspection system for the first time nationwide in 2007 to preemptively check for construction defects in apartments with around 25% progress in frame work and those pending use approval (30 households or more), urban-type residential housing (50 households or more), mixed-use complexes (300 households or more), and residential officetels (500 units or more).

Last year, the inspection stage was expanded to include sites under frame work construction, and officetels with 500 units or more were also included in the inspection targets.

Over the past 13 years, the Quality Inspection Team has conducted on-site inspections of a total of 1,936 complexes, identifying and correcting approximately 77,000 cases of quality defects and construction flaws.

In addition, specialized committee members in each field visited sites to meticulously inspect defects and poor construction in specialized areas such as electrical, mechanical facilities, and fire safety, which are difficult for residents to recognize, resulting in very high satisfaction among residents.

Shin Wook-ho, head of the Apartment Division of the province, emphasized, "The quality inspection system is highly effective in preventing post-move-in defect disputes between construction companies and prospective residents due to poor construction." He added, "We will continue to conduct thorough quality inspections from the residents' perspective to increase occupant satisfaction."

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