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The Commission will investigate
Eglė Šlajūtė, Head of the Department of Housing Administration of the Municipality of Vilnius 15 minutes He said the municipality is required by law to establish an accident investigation commission to determine the cause of the accident, who is at fault, what actions or omissions caused the accident. The commission will also make recommendations on how to deal with the accident.
“The municipality does not have that capacity, there are more than 7 thousand people in Vilnius. Apartment building. The maintenance of the building is the responsibility of the manager, the partnership, the administrator or the authorized representative of the joint venture agreement, and we will give them written instructions to inspect the balconies, especially to take into account buildings such as an accident with a reinforced concrete enclosure. .
We will oblige to carry out extraordinary inspections, if during the inspection it is established that there are indications of a possible emergency condition, we will force to order an expert examination. The expert will tell you if it is an emergency, because only he can tell and give recommendations on what to do with that balcony, ”said E. Šlajūtė.
However, residents are advised not to wait for an inspection, but to take care of their property themselves.
“People need to understand that when conducting inspections, facility owners often do not enter apartments and specialists cannot inspect those balcony constructions from the inside. And from an external inspection, there are no signs of emergency in this particular case. Yesterday I went to see me, up there you didn’t see anything. The owners themselves must understand this, ”said a representative of the municipality.
Rock Lukoševičius / 15min photo / Broken balcony in Vilnius Lazdynai district
She mentioned one of the reasons that could lead to disasters of this type or similar in apartment buildings: “Most of the residents have arbitrary glazed balconies, the project did not foresee it. The greenhouse effect comes out, the condensate accumulates, those balconies are not ventilated. The partition is made of reinforced concrete, weighs two tons, attached to two knots. So when condensate builds up, it doesn’t get vented, it starts to erode, it holds up and rebounds.
Outraged by the negligence
However, Architektų st. Miglė Kadonova has bought a house in 65 houses 15 minutes He told me that this incident that ended happily could only become the first disaster in this apartment building. All you have to do is compare the two sixteen floors side by side and it’s easy to see how much they differ.
15min photo of the reader Miglė / Architektų st. Houses 65 and 67
“It was only by chance that the victims were avoided. However, significant harm was caused not only to the residents of the lower floors but also to all owners of the common partial property. The event sparked a great debate about the buildings of Soviet-era apartments and who was responsible for the maintenance, management and operation of the building.
It is true that the house was built in 1982, did not participate in the renovation program and did not submit any applications. Although few have pointed out that the identical apartment building next door is even a few years older, i. It was built in 1980, but in much better technical condition, and the overall view of the house is completely different, ”said the Vilnius resident.
She herself says that she does not live in this apartment yet, but after acquiring a home here, she became interested in the work of the president of the housing association, who also serves as administrator. It is said that there are no reports, and showing what has been done is not much.
The elevators are old, the stairs are not repaired, the windows have not been replaced, so the heat is wasted in winter.
“You can see that this Architektų str. Both the technical condition and the general view of the 65 homes are deplorable. (…) Therefore, the risk of a similar disaster increases, taking into account the annual Architektų str. 65 residential building maintenance laws and a multi-apartment house located at Architektų str. 65, Vilnius, following the actions of the owners’ association administration following the extraordinary inspection of the building on August 6, 2020. Could a properly maintained and managed building have become so neglected? The unequivocal answer is no “, assured M. Kadonova.
Action has been taken, but it’s too late
Rekvizitai.vz.lt The president was unable to call the community phone number provided – the phone was off.
However, E. Šlajūtė does not intend to blame the president of the association, at least for the specifically fallen balcony.
“The visual inspection of the house does not show any defects. The owners themselves have to notice and report, notice, not the manager himself, because I really don’t think that happened during the day. We saw photos sent by the owner that the The upper edge of the plate was already uneven, there were vertical cracks, it could be suspected that the condition was bad. I had to inform the president immediately, “said the head of the Department of Housing Administration of the municipality.
However, the president of the association received a message from residents about the possible danger only on the same Friday, when the disaster occurred, he had fenced off the area of the STOP strip under the balconies, carried out an extraordinary inspection, the conclusions of which indicated the need for expertise.
Photo by Vytenis Miškinis / 15min photo / Balcony of a broken apartment building in Vilnius Lazdynai district
Fell on friday
Balcony in one of Architektų st. the apartment building collapsed on a Friday afternoon. The police department reported that the accident report was received at 4 p.m. 50 min.
As debris fell, the balconies on the first three floors of the house were destroyed. It was only by chance that there were no people on any of the balconies and outdoors near the house at the time, so no one was injured.
Residents of several apartments were evacuated due to cracks in the structure of the house.
Speaking on LRT radio on Saturday, Mindaugas Pakalnis, the chief architect of the Vilnius city municipality, said that the fallen balcony of an apartment building in Lazdynai showed that the apartment buildings built during the Soviet era were not completely safe, therefore, the municipality of the capital intends to carry out additional inspections to prevent similar situations from happening again.
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