Balance of Interests and Dispute Resolution in the Retrofitting of Elevators in Existing Multi-Story Houses in Tianjin

With the aging of China’s population, the retrofitting of elevators in existing multi-story residential buildings has been steadily promoted with the support of the government, but the regulations and policies guiding the retrofitting of elevators have not been able to solve the disputes related to compensation relief, cost sharing, and safeguard measures well. The existing types of disputes are mainly civil and administrative. After searching and analyzing, civil disputes can be divided into three categories: nuisance removal, economic loss, and procedural defects, and in practice, there are problems with different standards for judging the eligibility of litigation subjects, limitations of litigation by low-rise owners, and lack of compensation mechanisms. Based on the current situation of retrofitting elevators to existing multi-story residential buildings in Tianjin, this paper analyzes the existing dispute resolution paths from the balance of interests of relevant subjects to promote the implementation of retrofitting elevators to existing multi-story residential buildings.