The official response is that high-rise residential elevators have been experiencing frequent malfunctions for over 15 years? The committee member suggests actively investigating and evaluating the age | safety | elevators
There are many high-rise buildings in Shanghai, and in recent years, some elevators in high-rise residential buildings have encountered situations that require repeated maintenance. After conducting research, Chen Jiang, a member of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, found that there are more than 40000 residential elevators in Shanghai with a elevator age of over 15 years, accounting for 56% of the city's residential elevators. However, high-rise residential buildings with a building age of over 15 years, especially those over 20 years, have generally encountered various problems with elevators, and the proportion of elevators that need maintenance is relatively high. Many elevators often malfunction during peak hours, seriously affecting the normal life and safety of residents.
"The main obstacle to replacing elevators at present is that many residential areas have not yet formed or carried out their work normally due to various historical reasons, and the procedures for extracting and using maintenance funds are relatively complex, with a long approval time." Chen Jiang suggested that relevant departments should actively investigate the condition of elevators in high-rise residential buildings for more than 15 years, especially for residents who have reported multiple times. The safety and effectiveness of elevator maintenance should be evaluated as soon as possible. If there are indeed safety hazards or maintenance is already very difficult, which seriously affects residents' lives, elevator maintenance or replacement plans should be proposed as soon as possible.
For those who are unable to establish or fail to carry out normal work due to the inability of the property committee, which affects the safety assessment and replacement of elevators, Chen Jiang suggests promoting the formation of owner groups in relevant buildings to negotiate and vote on elevator replacement work. If residents reach an agreement to replace elevators, they should immediately carry out a series of work such as comparing prices with the electric elevator company, coordinating with the housing management office to extract maintenance funds, etc., to protect residents' rights to information, expression, and objection, and to make important matters during the elevator replacement process public. The process should be open and transparent, in line with the true wishes of the vast majority of residents.
Recently, this proposal received a response from the functional department. The Municipal Administration for Market Regulation stated that currently, safety technical specifications and standards do not specify the mandatory scrapping period for elevator machines. Safety assessments are usually used to comprehensively evaluate the safe operation of equipment and provide technical basis for the renewal, renovation, and repair of old elevators. The newly revised Shanghai Elevator Safety Management Measures stipulate that if an elevator reaches its designed service life or number of times and needs to continue to be used, a safety assessment should be conducted. In 2023, safety assessments will be conducted on 2344 old residential elevators in the city.
The Municipal Housing Management Bureau stated that from 2015 to 2022, a total of 16595 safety assessments of old residential elevators were completed in the city, and the conclusions of the safety assessments were aligned. From 2015 to 2022, a total of 5862 hidden danger elevators were repaired, renovated, and updated in the city. Collaborating with the special equipment safety supervision department, we will roll out the safety assessment of old residential elevators that have been in use for 15 years, equip 40000 residential elevators with remote safety monitoring devices, promote the repair and renovation of hidden danger elevators, and include them in the three-year action plan for deepening the construction of a "beautiful home" in the new era in this city. They will also be included in the annual assessment target task to promote implementation in all districts.
