Dubai Municipality says 30,000 construction transactions took place in 2013
61,407 building permit transactions were undertaken in 2013, says head of building department at Dubai Municipality
At a recently-organised customer’s forum in the emirate, Khalid Mohammed Salih, director of the building department at Dubai Municipality said at least 30,000 transactions were carried out in the construction industry with qualified contractors and consultancies in 2013.
61,407 building permit transactions and 82,033 engineering supervisions were undertaken by the building department in the duration, it was revealed. The total number of operations undertaken last year amounts to 293,391, when the 111,115 inspections included are combined to these figures.
“The services related to building permits, planning, building studies, building control and inspection all have resulted in unparalleled advancement for Dubai”, said Abdulla Rafeea, assistant director-general for the engineering and planning sector of the Dubai Municipality.
The announcement regarding qualified construction specialists follows a warning sent out by Marwan Al Mohammed, acting director of Building Department at the civic body, who in March 2014 said that an accident which occurred on-site in Al Mamzar, Dubai, was due to lack of diligence by the project consultant.
“The technical committee of the department has found that the accident, which injured four workers, is due to the violation of work rules by the project consultant as they subcontracted the work to an unauthorised contractor to work in Dubai,” Mohammad said at the time.
“The subcontractor has no efficiency in the construction field and committed serious technical mistakes during the concrete pouring work.”
In April 2014, the Municipality had announced that 6,078 contractors and 662 engineering consultancies have registered with its building department till the end of the year’s first quarter.
This number is higher than that of 2013 year-on-year, Salih said, attributing the rise to the booming job market in the construction sector, driven by events such as the Expo 2020.
