Gyeonggi-do Promotes 'Consulting and Standardization' of Apartment Long-Term Repair Plans... First Nationwide

Gyeonggi Provincial Government

Gyeonggi Province will standardize long-term repair plans for apartment residents nationwide for the first time to prevent conflicts caused by insufficient long-term repair reserves in multi-family housing (apartments). It will also promote a plan to review and consult on apartment long-term repair plans.

On the 25th, Gyeonggi Province announced that starting in July, it will accept consultation requests for long-term repair plans of newly registered apartment complexes in each city and county. To this end, Gyeonggi Province recently held a meeting with city and county officials to explain the background of the consultation review.

The long-term repair plan is a system that sets the targets and repair cycles for major shared facilities in apartments, such as elevators, and accumulates a certain amount of long-term repair reserves monthly. Apartment project entities must submit a long-term repair plan 'after completion but before use approval' and obtain approval from the city or county.

However, since there is no standard manual when the project entity initially establishes the long-term repair plan, the plan is often poorly prepared without verification procedures. During the handover of the plan to the management entity, under-accumulation of long-term repair reserves leads to neglect in facility management, causing safety accidents, disputes, and conflicts.

To solve these problems, Gyeonggi Province decided to standardize the long-term repair plans, register them in a system, and provide a service to review their appropriateness through verification by the Gyeonggi Province management advisory group.

First, Gyeonggi Province will encourage apartment project entities to draft the long-term repair plan and register it in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’s Central Apartment Management Support Center’s ‘Apartment Maintenance Information System.’ This system, based on an automatic calculation program, allows convenient establishment of long-term repair plans by entering detailed items, such as repair cycle-based reserve amounts and long-term repair reserve charges per household.

Once the long-term repair plan is established and sent to Gyeonggi Province through the city or county, the Gyeonggi Province multi-family housing management advisory group reviews the appropriateness of quantity estimation, repair cycle setting, and annual and household reserve charges. Finally, the plan is handed over to the management entity through the system, used for regular and occasional adjustments, enabling systematic management of the long-term repair plan.

Gyeonggi Province plans to first apply this to apartment complexes nearing use approval and then expand the service to older existing apartment complexes.

Lee Gye-sam, Director of the Urban Housing Office of Gyeonggi Province, said, "As the feasibility of reconstruction projects becomes unclear and the aging of existing apartments continues, the importance of managing multi-family housing facilities is increasing. We have now entered an era of preparing 100-year apartments that maintain healthy performance. This improvement plan for establishing long-term repair plans was prepared to continuously manage apartments where 71% of residents live, maintaining a safe and pleasant living environment for a long time."

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