Ensure your residence is safe!Bamboo City subsidizes the preliminary safety assessment of dangerous buildings after the earthquake with a maximum subsidy of 15,000 yuan | Central News Agency Information Platform

(Central News Service 20240422 09:31:48) To ensure the safety of housing buildings after the earthquake, the Hsinchu City Government recommends that citizens make more use of the “Hsinchu City Government’s 113th Annual Urban Hazardous and Old Building Structural Safety Performance Assessment Funding Subsidy.” The Metropolitan Development Office stated that the upper limit of the subsidy amount applied for the initial evaluation is 12,000 yuan or 15,000 yuan, and the subsidy amount for advanced to detailed evaluation is 30% of the evaluation cost (maximum 400,000 yuan). For wall cracks after the earthquake , tiles peeling off or other concerns about residential safety can apply according to regulations to ensure residential safety.

Mayor Gao Hongan said that a major earthquake with a Richter scale of 7.2 (maximum magnitude 6) occurred off the coast of Hualien a few days ago, causing damage to many buildings in Taiwan. The maximum magnitude of the earthquake in Zhu City also reached magnitude 4. Because the earthquake lasted for a long time, it still caused damage. The damage to some buildings in Bamboo City has caused people to have concerns about residential safety. The city government calls on citizens to make more use of the “Hsinchu City Government’s 113th Annual Urban Hazardous and Old Building Structural Safety Performance Assessment Funding Subsidy” announced on February 16 this year. Apply for a building structural safety performance assessment.

The Municipal Development Office explained that the “Hsinchu City Government’s 113 Urban Hazardous and Old Building Structural Safety Performance Assessment Funding Subsidy” is divided into two stages. The maximum subsidy for each building with a total floor area of ​​less than 3,000 square meters in the initial assessment is 12 , 000 yuan, and the maximum subsidy is 15,000 yuan for buildings with a total floor area of ​​3,000 square meters or more; the subsidy amount for each building with detailed assessment shall not exceed 30% of the assessment cost (maximum is 400,000 yuan); for other buildings If the property is an apartment building, the application should be made for the entire building.

The Department of Urban Development added that this year’s requirements for applicants’ qualifications for the urban hazardous and old building structural safety performance assessment funding subsidy, the required documents and other regulations can be checked online (https://pse.is/5uha83), and can be found online (https: //pse.is/5uhag2 ) Download the application form and related forms to apply for a structural safety performance assessment to the city government. The city government will entrust an agency assessed by the central competent authority to conduct the structural safety performance assessment and prepare an assessment report to confirm the earthquake resistance of the building. .