No lifts for 200 flats because it is too costly

[Ripley]

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Oct 20, 2009
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200 HDB blocks are not eligible for lift upgrade because it is too costly. -- ST PHOTO: JOYCE FANG
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ONLY 200 out of around 5,300 HDB blocks built before 1990 will not be getting lifts that stop at every floor. They do not qualify for the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP) because it would cost more than $30,000 per unit to install lifts in these blocks. This is in spite of innovative and cost-effective solutions by the Housing and Development Board to bring costs down, Parliament heard on Monday. Senior Minister of State for National Development Grace Fu said these solutions include installing shaftless lifts, smaller lifts for low-rise blocks and reconfigured lift access for blocks with lift landings halfway between floors. She was responding to a question by Mr Christopher de Souza (Holland-Bukit Timah GRC), who asked for the number of HDB blocks that do not qualify for lift upgrading because of cost issues. When the lift upgrading programme was introduced eight years ago, almost 1,000 blocks - or around one in five - failed to qualify because it would have been too expensive.

Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

[Yoshitei]

Poor designs and lack of foresight caused the older HDBs to be equipped without lifts on every level.

And every peasant has to bear the cost of that mistake!

Next time, they'll build one toilet in a flat irregardless of size, cost and configuration. Then 1 or 2 years down the road, they'll build another toilet and bill the peasants for the "upgrade"

 

[Jabba]

it's Regardless...not irregardless...

 

[johnny333]

Next time, they'll build one toilet in a flat irregardless of size, cost and configuration. Then 1 or 2 years down the road, they'll build another toilet and bill the peasants for the "upgrade"

If they did that they would loose $$$.

Look at your utility bill. The more bathrooms you have the more you have to pay for sewarage.

 

[Ramseth]

They do not qualify for the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP) because it would cost more than $30,000 per unit to install lifts in these blocks.

Something funny. Let's take a typical pre-1990 3-room block with about 300 units per block. That's almost $10,000,000 to upgrade their lift. Who's the contractor they got their quotation from? Even more funny, my block already has upgraded every-floor landing lift several years ago. They're now reupgrading it into...every-floor landing lift again.

 

[po2wq]

No lifts for 200 flats

which r ze 200 blocks? ...

where r dey located? ...

 

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[myo539]

You can always vote not to upgrade.