A close friend lives in an older building, the top “floor” has a rooftop apartment. When I went to visit recently the ceiling above the stairwell had very clearly disintegrated, with lots of pieces of concrete on the floor, and rusted-through rebar visible in the ceiling. It looks like the ceiling is leaking, and the water has degraded the rebar and concrete inside. Sitting directly on top of this spot is a steel water tank.
I was shocked at how clearly dangerous this is, not just because of pieces of concrete falling but because the entire ceiling might collapse with that much weight on top. The landlord for the rooftop apartment is not responsive to requests for repair. Is there somewhere that one could report an unsafe building or request a check?
If there’s anything to be done, it would be through here most easily I think. Something like this would be funneled to the city Construction Management Office, you could just contact them directly too I guess.
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Thanks, I’ll forward to my friend. She’s also planning on stopping by the district administration center and local police station to ask. Given the amount of rain this week and constant potential for earthquakes she’s quite concerned about her building stairwell caving in.
I’ll go out on a limb and say it’s probably not as likely as it might look, assuming the rebar is not disintegrating or something. But yeah, sounds like it should be looked at
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Yeah, hard to tell - some palm-sized chunks of concrete have come down and the rebar is visibly quite rusted, but it’s hard to tell how rusted it is. A couple bits of rebar came down as well which feels like a bad sign, but maybe it was just stuck to the concrete.
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I’ve seen similar things often enough 
Anyway, let us know how it turns out