TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

Theme B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable citiesfocus on the plan and design stage of the construction and propose the followingdifficulties in implementing property management:1. Consanguinity relation Influence on marketization: Because of the consanguinityrelation between property management company and developer, when the owner findsproblem with their house, the property management company becomes the cover forthe developer. They shift the responsibility between each other and revels theimmaturity of property management during plan and design stage. This makesdifficulty in implementing property management.2. The contradictions caused by remain problems from the developer: The remainsproblems are the defects of auxiliary facility and quality issues which cause thedistrust of the buyers. Further more, most early developed building did not establishrepair funds; making difficulty for the property management company to do repairs.This caused the owners refuse to pay for the management fee. The study gives twocase studies, government and personnel construction, focusing on the imperfection ofquality and other problem with construction auxiliary facilities: (1) The Chu-Weimarket constructed by Chiayi government in 1995, the tiles continuously peeled offfrom the building external wall (figure 7) which fall on the cars below causingdamages. The situation becomes serious whenever typhoon rages (figure 8). The Feriatyphoon, 2005, even caused serious damage to the tiles. The administrativecommittee questioned the government for the construction quality and react with legalaction. (2) In 2006, just after the completion and acceptance; the roof of the privetenterprise construction at Taichung began leaking because of the poor waterproofquality. Moreover, there were many other problems for example: the airtight windowscould not be closed (figure 9), low quality bathroom drainage facility (figure 10) andair exhausting facility, illegal situation of building walls at the fire prevention channel.319