Hibi Eden, a deputy, visits the Avenue-1 Avenue-1 block in Panampilly Nagar after the pillar of the L-Section on the ground floor suffered extensive damage 25 May 2025 | Photo Credit: RK Nithin
A total of 24 families located in the housing complex on the 16th floor in Panampilly Nagar were evacuated after the pillar l cut on the ground floor suffered extensive damage and exposed steel bars inside.
Families stayed in the Avenue-1 Avenue-1 apartments. After the development, the apartment visited officials from the Kochi Corporation engineering wing and issued a stop for construction work allegedly ongoing near the damaged structure, referring to the lack of approval of the civil agency.
Yacub Mohan George, who left as a deputy head engineer (PWD), said that the builder, suppliers, project manager, designer, architect and officials who issued the acclaim he left as a deputy head engineer. According to standards, all materials used in construction should be tested and certified and according to the National Building Code, evidence must be checked on the design. He added that the report presented by an expert committee, which was created about ten years ago to revise the rules for urban buildings in Kerala (KMBR), should be carried out to prevent these structural problems to prevent.
Hibi Eden, a deputy who visited the apartment, demanded that a team of experts from PWD buildings, Kochi Corporation and the Disasters Management team be to correct the damage.
One of the owners of the apartment Sreenivasan Krishhnan, who was formerly the secretary of the Congress Committee for All India, said the owners took the question of the damaged pillar with structural engineers who believed that the problem could be corrected in the next two to three months. Another pile may be needed to apply a load of a nearly 17 -year housing complex. The layout of the cost of this must be developed, he added.
Published – May 25, 2025 22:22 is
