"Ensure Defect Inspection for Education Office Facility Construction"... Ordinance Passed by Gyeongbuk Provincial Assembly Member Jo Yong-jin

Assemblyman Jo Yong-jin (People Power Party·Gimcheon) of the Gyeongbuk Provincial Council, who was the main proposer, saw the “Ordinance on Support for Defect Management of Facility Construction by the Gyeongsangbuk-do Office of Education” passed at the plenary session on the 9th, creating an opportunity to establish a system that can prevent poor-quality construction and enable effective and efficient defect management for facility construction projects undertaken by educational institutions.

The main contents of the ordinance include the superintendent’s responsibilities regarding defect management of facility construction, the scope of application of the ordinance, defect inspections and supervisory checks, the establishment, operation, and functions of the defect management support system, maintenance and management of the defect management support system, and matters related to statistics and information disclosure on defect inspection details of facility construction.

Gyeongbuk Provincial Council Member Jo Yong-jin

Articles 69 and 70 of the Enforcement Decree of the Local Contract Act stipulate that defect inspections must be conducted regularly at least twice a year during the defect liability period.

However, according to data submitted by the Gyeongbuk Office of Education to Assemblyman Jo Yong-jin, over the past three years, there were 9,546 legally mandated defect inspections for 3,033 facility construction projects (construction amounting to 841.7 billion KRW) by the Gyeongsangbuk-do Office of Education and 23 educational support offices, but only 7,210 defect inspections were actually conducted, resulting in a legal defect inspection processing rate of only 76%.

According to this data, four locations?including the Gyeongbuk Office of Education’s Facilities Division, Gyeongsan, Bonghwa, and Gimcheon?showed defect inspection implementation rates in the 60% range compared to the legally mandated defect inspection counts of the 23 educational support offices in the province, while 12 locations were identified in the 70% range.

Assemblyman Jo of the Gyeongbuk Provincial Council explained, “The ordinance was proposed to provide a basis for establishing a system that can systematically manage defect management of facility construction projects, reducing cases where the opportunity for free defect repairs is missed due to failure to properly conduct legally mandated defect inspections for facility construction projects commissioned by the Office of Education, thereby preventing waste of renovation budgets.”

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