Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Shanghai?s new building codes put safety first

JingAn building fire

Two months after a residential building fire in Jing?an District claimed almost 60 lives, the Shanghai Municipal Government has released a new batch of regulations to tighten supervision of construction sites.

"A lack of supervision of renovation projects, insufficient budgets for construction safety management, ineffective site supervision, illegal subcontracting and a lack of training of construction workers have been major causes of construction safety accidents in Shanghai,? said Huang Rong, director of Shanghai?s urban construction and communications commission to China Daily.

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