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MB: Onus on owners to maintain
high-rise buildings
01/06/1997 NSUNT
HULU TERENGGANU, Sat. -
High-rise building owners must be able to provide a good management package to ensure their premises are well maintained. Menteri
Besar Tan Sri Wan Mokhtar Ahmad said some owners were quite reluctant to do this because of certain problems.
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Wood in high-rises not safe from
termites 06/06/1997 NST-LTIMES
ACCORDING to a study by the Forest
Research Institute of Malaysia, wooden
parts in high-rise buildings are not
safe from attacks by termites. Frim
research assistant (entomology section)
Azmi Mahyuddin said apartments and flats
which were not pre-treated during the
construction stages were vulnerable to
termite attacks.
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Grouses from funny to absurd, says
developer
07/06/1997 NST-LTIMES
LENSA Development Sdn Bhd, the
company undertaking the RM7 million
construction of two five-storey blocks
in Jalan Kasah, Medan Damansara, has a
series of complaints themselves against
residents who had lodged protests
against the project. Hajeedar Abdul
Majeed, a director of the company, said
although he has handled bigger city
construction projects, none were as
problematic as Jalan Kasah which he
claims ranges from funny to absurd.
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Condo with highway for a view
09/06/1997 MM
IMAGINE stepping out to your
condominium's balcony only to be greeted
by a highway. This is what purchasers of
the 400-unit 18-storey Tiara Condominium
are expected to face when a stretch of
the Ampang-Kuala Lumpur elevated highway
rising three storeys high is built.
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Flats to be ready by end of
year MM 11/06/1997
CITY HALL is sticking to its promise to deliver the long-delayed Keramat
Jaya Phase II flats to buyers by end of the year. It has revived the
project that had been stalled many times since it first started in 1989
last month.
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Drums at abandoned housing
project removed NSUNT 22/06/1997
SEREMBAN, Sat. - The State Department of Environment has removed all the
drums suspected of containing hazardous waste dumped at an abandoned
housing project in Desa Temiang last week. A DOE official said they found
25 drums from the site yesterday. They were transported to the Bukit Nanas
integrated waste treatment plant in Port Dickson.
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Building management Bill to be tabled
soon
25/06/1997 BT
THE Land and Cooperative
Development Ministry will table the
proposed Building Management Act at the
coming Parliament sitting next month,
its minister Datuk Osu Sukam said
yesterday. The proposed Act, prepared by
both the ministry and the Housing and
Local Government Ministry, is aimed at
ensuring efficient management of common
buildings.
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Highrise builders get
reminder on strata titles
27/06/1997 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. - Developers
of highrise buildings must apply for
strata titles for the buyers or face
legal action, Deputy Land and Co-
operative Development Minister Dr Goh
Cheng Teik said today. He said the
number of developers who had not applied
for the titles were "frighteningly
substantial" but could not give the
figures.
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Owners told to report errant
developers
27/06/1997 BT
BUYERS of high-rise building lots
yet to get their strata titles have been
advised to report the matter to the
authorities for appropriate action
against the developers. Deputy Land and
Cooperative Development Minister Dr Goh
Cheng Teik said developers who failed to
apply for the titles will be taken to
court for violating the Strata Title Act
(STA) 1985.
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Over 1,000 Bayan Lepas
housebuyers in a lurch NST 28/06/1997 By Marina Emmanuel
PENANG, Fri. - Over 1,000 housebuyers of a mixed development project in
Bayan Lepas have been left in the lurch. Three years after booking low-
cost apartments there, the project has been abandoned. Most of the units
in the Sri Bayu project, launched in 1992 by Acting Prime Minister Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (in his capacity then as Finance Minister), were
snapped up but to date there is nothing but overgrown trees, larvae
infested drains and a partially-completed apartment block at the 52,675 sq
metre project site.
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Plan for new developer to
revive Sri Bayu NSUNT 29/06/1997
PENANG, Sat. - Acting Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said today
the State Bumiputera Steering Committee was in the process of appointing
another development company to revive a project in Bayan Lepas which had
been abandoned by the previous developer. He said the committee had at a
meeting two months ago cancelled the project given to Duniaga Sdn Bhd.
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Acting PM visits site of
delayed housing project NSUNT 29/06/1997
PENANG, Sat. - Acting Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today
visited Halaman Damai in Georgetown, one of several delayed housing
projects in the State by developer Duniaga Sdn Bhd. The project's low-cost
block has been completed and occupied. However, residents of a second
block of medium-cost units are still waiting for the certificate of
fitness while a third block of medium-cost units is under construction.
