BUILDINGS Department engineers have launched a blitz on dangerous and illegal canopies around Yan Oi Court, Kwun Tong, following a fatal collapse.
'Those we consider dangerous will be removed immediately . . . Owners of those illegal structures we don't think are at risk will be served with notices to remove them,' said senior structural engineer Robert Gartan.
Workmen are removing canopies either side of the collapsed section which crushed construction worker, Yeung Ki-yee, 38, to death and injured two other people on Wednesday.
A preliminary investigation confirmed the 10-metre-long canopy was an illegal steel frame and corrugated tin sheet structure fixed to the edge of an authorised concrete canopy.
There may also have been a concrete screed on top of the metal sheeting which would have increased the weight of the structure.
The building dates from the mid-1960s. But the Buildings Department does not know yet when the extension was added or by whom.
Mr Gartan revealed officials had received complaints about the state of the building, but these did not specifically relate to dangerous canopies.