LH Officially Apologizes for Collapse Accident... "Deeply Responsible, Will Establish Measures to Prevent Recurrence"

Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) officially apologized for the collapse accident of the underground parking lot at the apartment construction site in Geomdan, Incheon, which occurred last April. The apology came after the government’s investigation results revealed that the cause of the accident was due to poor quality throughout the entire process of design, construction, and supervision.

On the 6th, LH posted an apology letter signed by President Han Jun Lee on its homepage. The letter expressed deep remorse for the accident that occurred at the construction site they commissioned and stated that they would promptly prepare measures to handle the aftermath of the accident.

The apology letter also included a commitment to establish fundamental improvement plans and recurrence prevention measures through a comprehensive review of construction project management going forward.

Meanwhile, on the previous day, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’s Construction Accident Investigation Committee announced the investigation results on the collapse accident of the underground parking lot at the Geomdan apartment construction site in Incheon, stating that the cause was a total failure from the design stage through construction and supervision.

In particular, the committee pointed out that there were issues even with the design drawings for which LH was responsible. The 'shear reinforcement bars,' which are bundles of rebar supporting the roof on the underground parking lot columns, must be included, but the design drawings indicated that about half of the 32 underground parking lot columns?15 columns?did not require these rebar bundles.

Additionally, LH has an obligation to verify at least once a year whether the construction company is properly managing quality according to the quality management plan, but the committee criticized LH for failing to carry out this verification.

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