Concrete ceiling comes crashing down on Keelung living room
Concrete ceiling comes crashing down on Keelung living room
2025-08-29
The residents of an apartment in Keelung were extremely lucky to just barely avoid getting crushed by their ceiling on Thursday. The incident happened on the third floor of a 37-year-old building in Qidu District. The ceiling came crumbling down in its entirety onto the living room, fortunately when all dwellers were elsewhere in the house. Their upstairs neighbors had been reflooring their apartment, which could have caused the rusty rebars in the concrete to give in.
The concrete ceiling has fully collapsed, exposing rusty steel beams and leaving debris everywhere. The unit is now uninhabitable. Firefighters go in and finally get a woman out of the apartment on a stretcher through the window.
Mr. Chen
3rd floor resident
About 3 minutes before it crumbled down, I went to the kitchen to get an afternoon snack ready. That’s when it all came down, goodbye.
The next day, the room is a sorry sight. Mr. Chen’s elderly wife spends most of her time in the living room, but fortunately at the time of the collapse she went to rest in their bedroom, narrowly avoiding getting crushed.
Mr. Chen’s daughter-in-law
Heard noises before collapse
My mother-in-law is bedridden, so when the firemen got her out, they had to take down the door and go through here. We did hear some noise during the earthquake on Wednesday, but we just thought it was rats outside, or something like that. We didn’t know what it could be. My father-in-law says that yesterday morning, he heard noises that sounded like cracking.
The ceiling collapse happened on the third floor of a 37-year-old five-storey building on Baisan Street on Keelung’s Qidu District. It’s thought that the floor renovation that the upstairs neighbors are doing was a contributing factor that put extra strain on the ceiling. The residents on the second, third, and fourth floors have been evacuated to a nearby hotel as a preventative measure. Engineers came to look at the site on Friday morning.
Chiang Chi-huang
Taiwan Professional Civil Engineers Association
The steel beams were corroded, which could be due to excessive levels of chloride ions. The collapsed ceiling will have to be broken up into small pieces and removed. There should be an additional seismic resistance assessment.
Hsieh Shiao-kun
Keelung Department of Urban Development
We’ve consulted with technicians, and they say the entire building is not in immediate danger at the moment.
It is suspected that the five-story building was constructed using marine sand, which causes rebar corrosion and flaking of the concrete. If that’s the case, the ceiling collapse is only the beginning of the problems.
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鋼筋鏽蝕+四樓施作地板 37年公寓天花板崩塌
2025-08-29
基隆七堵一處屋齡37年的五層樓公寓，昨天早上，三樓的天花板，無預警崩塌，還好沒釀傷亡！今天土木技師等相關單位到場勘查，疑似天花板本身鋼筋鏽蝕嚴重，再加上四樓正施作地板工程，載重增加，才釀三樓天花板坍塌意外，究竟公寓是不是海砂屋？還有待進一步調查。
水泥天花板整片坍塌，鋼筋明顯外露，水泥碎石堆積整間屋子，無法住人，消防人員在屋內來回穿梭，最後只好從窗戶，抬著擔架，將臥床的婦人抬出來。
[[三樓屋主 陳先生]]
“塌下來前三分鐘，我想說去準備一下午餐，去到廚房一下子結果塌下來，再見。”
事隔一天再回到家中，屋主看了實在頭很痛，媳婦說，平時高齡的婆婆，都會待在客廳，當時長照人員剛好將婆婆請到房間內休息，沒想到過不久，天花板就塌了！
[[三樓屋主媳婦]]
“因為我婆婆就是臥床，所以昨天消防過來，才把這個門拆下來從這邊出去。就是前天晚上地震，就已經有聽到（聲音），但是我們以為是外面還是有老鼠，還是有什麼我們就搞不清楚是什麼聲音。昨天早上我公公也是說，他也是聽到霹霹啪啪的聲音。”
天花板崩塌事件，就發生在基隆七堵百三街一處37年的五層樓公寓，疑似是鋼筋鏽蝕加上4樓樓地板在裝修，造成載重增加，導致3樓天花板崩塌，二三四樓住戶，週六晚上預警性安置附近飯店。週五一早，土木技師等相關單位，來到現場勘察。
[[土木技師公會處長 江枝煌]]
“鋼筋鏽蝕的原因，就是有類似疑似氯離子超標的狀況。天花板損壞的部分，也要盡速把它打碎然後移除，我們是建議要做耐震能力的詳細評估。”
[[基隆市都發處處長 謝孝昆]]
“當然整棟建物，剛剛也有稍微質詢一下幾位技師，認為目前當然是沒有到立即危險。”
五層樓公寓，疑似是海砂屋，不過還得等鑒定結果出爐，若整棟公寓成了危樓，那問題可就大了！
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