Investigation, surveys and quality inspection of apartment buildings in Vietnam from December 10, 2015

According to Article 6 of the Decree No. 101/2015/NĐ-CP of the Vietnam’s Government, the Department of construction shall take charge of and cooperate with local competent authorities to investigate and survey the status of the apartment whose useful life expires under regulations of laws on construction or run-down apartment buildings within its administration and shall inspect the quality of such apartment buildings. The inspection of quality of such apartment buildings shall be conducted in accordance with laws on quality control of construction works. The Ministry of Construction of Vietnam shall release guidance on risk assessment of apartment building structure and procedures for inspection of the apartment building quality.

Concurrently, with regard to a run-down apartment building which needs demolishing to be upgraded and rebuilt, the Department of Construction shall issues the inspection conclusion of the apartment building quality and request the People’s Committees of the province and central-affiliated cities (hereinafter referred to as People’s Committee of the province) to notify occupiers of such apartments of the inspection conclusion in writing. The written inspection conclusion shall be published on the portal of the People’s Committee of the province and the portal of the Department of Construction and shall be posted at least once on the local press of the apartment building. The written inspection conclusion shall give a clear conclusion of the run-down apartment building or the dangerous apartment building under guidelines of the Ministry of Construction of Vietnam.

Note: In the event that an apartment complex whose plan for reconstruction is approved by the State competent authorities has at least 01 block that needs demolishing to be reconstructed according to the written notification of the People’s Committee of the province and many wear-and-tear blocks beyond the demolition, the whole apartment complex shall uniformly be rebuilt according to the renovation/reconstruction plan approved by the People’s Committee of the province.

View more details at the Decree No. 101/2015/NĐ-CP of the Vietnam’s Government, effective from December 10, 2015.

Ty Na

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