Wednesday, February 13, 2008

That Fish In HDB Lift

For those who have taken the HDB Lift before, you will be familiar with that 'Fish Signature' or rather the signature that resembles that of a fish shape on the lift Certificate Of Maintenance;


Surprisingly I'm still able to find this Certificate Of Maintenance with the 'Fish Signature' on it at Sengkang MSCP (the one besides the Chinese Temple). I wonder whose signature is that?

In the past, HDB issued this Certificates of Maintenance to the respective Town Councils for display in the HDB lifts. Since Apr 2005, under the Building Maintenance and Strata Management (Lift And Building Maintenance) Regulations 2005, the Certificate of Maintenance is no longer required to be displayed in lift. So we are seeing less and less of this 'Fish Signature'.

With the new regulation, Town Council display other information related to the lift and its maintenance;


Read here for more detail on Certificate Of Maintenance.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

they put it back quietly, i saw it yesterday.After many lifts went crazy. Ya, whose idea ia itvto remove that license? must be the vendors who think without the license they can short cut the maintenance or skip it.Now put back quietly, what does it tell?