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Buildings Department (Hong Kong)

Buildings Department (Hong Kong)
The latest news and top stories on the Buildings Department. A prominent Hong Kong-based governmental body, the Buildings Department is dedicated to ensuring a safe and healthy built environment. Its primary mission involves setting and enforcing safety health and environmental standards for private buildings through the Buildings Ordinance. Key activities include plan approval, construction audit checks, enforcement against unauthorised works and promoting building maintenance. The department is significant for its crucial role in upholding building safety and fostering a safety culture across Hong Kong.
Accidents and personal safety

Letters | Hong Kong’s ageing buildings need better care under stronger rules

Readers call on the government to revamp the city’s governance of building management and repair, and rethink its approach to teenagers’ social media use.

55 blocks in Hong Kong can’t meet deadline to take down scaffolding nets

Hong Kong’s MTR Corp halts Oyster Bay station’s overhead cable foundation works

Suspension follows ‘upheaving’ of between 22mm and 48mm recorded at five checkpoints on section of Tung Chung line track, authorities say.

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