Lotte Corp. eliminated over 8,000 safety problems in the past year at the Lotte World Tower, which is slated to open in April, the company said Sunday.

The company said a total of 8,266 safety cases were found in its independent probe from November last year, with 97 percent of them fixed.
 

The problems included trivial maintenance issues to safety-related matters such as managing fire apparatus and protective equipment.

“Checking only one floor takes a lot of time and effort as each floor is around 991 to 1,652 square-meters. The four-hour inspection was found to take 10 kilometers of walking a day,” said Lotte Corporation.

As safety concerns rose over the tower amid a series of construction accidents and cracks found on walls and the aquarium in 2014, the company started to run the safety committee from January last year.

By Lee Hyun-jeong (rene@heraldcorp.com)