Hanoi needs mini apartments to ensure distance between cars

On November 2, the Hanoi People’s Committee issued an official dispatch on strengthening the implementation of legal regulations on construction and safety control of old apartment buildings, multi-storey individual houses and mini apartments.

Accordingly, Hanoi needs the People’s Committees of districts and towns to immediately organize and deploy solutions to reduce safety risks for multi-storey individual housing projects and mini apartments.

In particular, investors and project owners should arrange for adequate two-wheel parking areas, ensuring a minimum area of ​​6m² for motorbikes and bicycles for each apartment. If this area cannot be guaranteed, the vehicle should be parked outside.

Hanoi also requires multi-storey individual houses and mini apartments to ensure distance between cars and fire safety solutions in parking areas. Also, the parking area should be separated from the apartment lobby and stairs.

Electric vehicle charging areas (if any) should be arranged separately while ensuring safe distance from surrounding vehicles; Do not charge the battery overnight, the charger must be suitable for the car battery system…

Also, apartment owners should add suitable special fire fighting equipment to deal with fire and explosion incidents in electric vehicle batteries.

For projects that have been put into use, the Hanoi People’s Committee is responsible for organizing a review and developing an escape plan to ensure safety in the event of an incident, mobilizing to remove and cut down tiger cages, and creating new routes. Requested to make. Review emergency stairs and escape routes, and add additional escape routes to ensure current fire prevention regulations.

For new construction projects, it is necessary to strictly control the compliance with legal regulations on planning, construction, fire prevention and fighting, management of construction permits and management of quality, quantity, construction order according to regulations.

In particular, ensuring control over the design of parking areas, emergency exit systems and power supply systems; construction fire prevention and fighting systems; Organizations and individuals preparing and validating the design must have adequate capacity in accordance with the provisions of the law.

For old apartment buildings, the People’s Committees of districts and towns immediately organize and deploy solutions to reduce fire safety risks, including dismantling expanded tiger cages.