URA tells owners to avoid hiring lift company at centre of fire safety probe

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Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Authority has advised property owners in a subsidy scheme not to hire Taizoom Elevator after the contractor failed to install required fire-resistant components in lifts at 338 buildings. The government has also suspended the company’s performance rating while inspections continue.

Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Authority has advised property owners under a subsidy scheme against hiring a contractor that failed to install fire safety components in lifts at hundreds of buildings, saying it had “lost confidence” in the company. The move came a day after the government suspended the performance rating for Taizoom Elevator, which was found to have failed to install required fire-resistant door frame components at 338 buildings as inspections of its work across the city are carried...