According to Lao Dong Newspaper reporters at CT1B building, many items in the building have been damaged and degraded, such as the stairs; the fire prevention and fighting equipment cabinet. Many electrical bulbs are broken, not repaired, brick floors are broken and broken in many places...
CT1B building has 2 elevators but 1 is broken. At the time the reporter arrived on the morning of July 2, both elevators stopped operating.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Hang (character's name has been changed, a worker renting a room in CT1B building) said that the building's elevators are often broken and jammed, affecting people's lives. "In the house, almost every room is soaked with water and mold" - Ms. Hang reflected.
According to the reporter's investigation, at the end of May 2025, Hanoi Housing Management and Development One Member Co., Ltd. sent an official dispatch to the Hanoi Department of Construction to report and propose the implementation of investment to replace new elevator equipment in this housing area.
According to the document, the company is currently assigned to manage and operate 24 low-rise buildings and 4 high-rise buildings for workers to rent. Currently, the equipment of the buildings is seriously degraded, affecting the safety of users, causing public outrage, complaints and long-term reports.
The elevators in the housing fund have continuously been damaged, affecting the lives of workers renting houses here, especially the two 15-storey CT1A and CT1B buildings for workers' households, the high density of users, causing the elevator's operating frequency to be high, many equipment to deteriorate and wear down.
The document added that maintenance and repair work is carried out annually. However, limited funding due to problems with procedures and procedures as well as time to carry out work, maintenance work was interrupted not regularly and continuously. The damaged equipment cannot be completely repaired, causing difficulties and frustrations for the renter and the risk of unsafety in use.
The company proposed and recommended that the Department of Construction report to the City People's Committee to approve specialized units and organizations with the capacity to re-evaluate the overall quality of construction equipment and arrange funding sources to soon have a thorough solution including a solution to replace part or all elevators.
In the immediate future, while waiting for the competent authority to approve the plan to replace the elevators here, to avoid public concern and to have a basis for carrying out maintenance work in 2025, including contents on elevator maintenance, the company requested the Department of Construction to soon consider approving the previously submitted adjusted and supplemented maintenance plan.
