How to Handle the Removal of Prefabricated Panels in Houses

The handling of the removal of prefabricated panels in houses should be carried out according to the actual situation of the house and policy requirements, and not all prefabricated panel houses need to be demolished.

Demolition Conditions

• Safety hazards or planned areas: Only houses identified by professional institutions as having safety hazards or those included in urban renewal or demolition planning areas will be demolished. If the house itself is safe, it is usually just renovated, such as painting the exterior walls, upgrading water and electricity systems, and repairing the roof.
• Included in the 2026 governance scope: The governance of prefabricated panel houses is included in the scope of urban renewal and the renovation of dilapidated housing. The handling methods include safety inspections, reinforcement and renovation, original-site reconstruction, and resettlement through expropriation. Urban C- and D-grade dangerous houses will be documented and dynamically updated, with the demolition and renovation of D-grade dangerous houses being accelerated. Whether a house can continue to be used requires a comprehensive consideration of factors such as foundation settlement, the condition of load-bearing walls, beam-panel connections, concrete aging, water seepage and corrosion, earthquake resistance, and whether there has been unauthorized alteration of load-bearing structures. Safety appraisals usually classify the condition of houses into grades, with C-grade indicating that local load-bearing structures do not meet safety requirements and local hazards exist; D-grade indicating that load-bearing structures no longer meet safety requirements and the entire building is at risk. The focus of handling is on the degree of danger rather than simply queuing by the age of the house or directly demolishing it upon seeing prefabricated panels.
• Three types of situations prioritized for demolition: Prefabricated panel houses whose main structures have been damaged and cannot be repaired even through old house renovation; some prefabricated panel houses whose main structures, although not damaged, cannot withstand natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods; and prefabricated panel houses on municipal planning land.

Compensation Methods

• Monetary compensation: Directly receive money, usually calculated by a third-party appraisal company based on the prices of surrounding second-hand houses, plus the value of the house itself, decoration compensation, moving expenses, transitional rental expenses, and early signing bonuses, etc.
• Property exchange: Demolish the old and replace it with a new one, including two methods: original-site relocation and off-site resettlement. Original-site relocation means rebuilding on the original site after the original house is demolished, allowing residents to return to their original locations; off-site resettlement means relocating residents to other places.
• Housing voucher compensation: The specific operations and applicable situations are not elaborated in detail in the text.

Demolition Safety Measures

• Before demolition, a professional team must be hired for assessment. Cut off the water, electricity, and gas supplies, set up iron sheet fences around the site, hang up signs saying "Construction Site - Keep Out", and workers should be fully equipped. When there is a lot of dust, wear gas masks.
• During demolition, start from the top and work downwards. First, remove non-load-bearing parts such as partition walls, and finally deal with the floor slabs and main beams. Use steel frames to support the prefabricated panels.
• At the end, construction waste should not be piled up randomly and should be transported away by covered trucks.