My Block is being upgraded

This has been happening for the past 1 year, my house is being "upgraded", but not from a 5-room to a 6-room but only adding lifts that serve every floor and some landscape upgrading, like adding a garden and some resting corner here and there.

I thought it would be nice if i could document this some how, So here we are. It all started with the voting of whether will there be an upgrade. The Answer is a YES. More than 75% of those staying around my region voted positively. Within 6mth the lift structure came up. They build the lift on the left and right hand-side of my block before closing down the central lift and the middle of the block. Previously, all 3 lifts are situated at the center of the block.

They have this area, setup to house all the worker working on the project. Think the company doing the lift is call " Team-builder". They sure work as a team as every morning when i leave for work, will see all the "Blackies" doing their morning exercise before starting work. I thought this was really interesting. The supervisor really take good care of them.

Once the lift is working, they started to knock down the central life and that where the inconvenience comes. instead of taking the central lift, now I have to walk either to the left or right of the block to take the "upgraded" lift. Go to the 10th floor, walk to the central corridor (where the old lift use to be) and walk down to 8th floor, where my house is. Here is how the central lift looks like after they "KOed" it.

At first, did not really know what is the plan for the center lift of the block. Are they going to build a new one just by building one more "Shaft" like structure outside the building or they will use 1 of the 3 lift and upgrade it to serve every floor. The below photos will show you which one the "authorities" choose to go with


I really gald i not at home when they did these works, must be really noisy. They actually build a platform make of concrete and steel on every single storey. Uses the lift on the left most, aka the one nearest to the corridor.

The Last I check, they are still doing and working on the center lift. Forecast is 2nd Qtr of 2008. This mean they won't not make it for Chinese New year, what a shame, to have this mess outside my corridor during CNY. Hiaz...

Will update after the 1st Qtr (Aka Mar'07) to see how the progress, hopefully it "nicer" Sign- off for now, really tired as still having a bad cough and did not sleep well as been coughing thr the night...:-(