Dubai Municipality steps up on building maintenance campaign
Municipality’s building department issues notices to owners of poorly maintained, incomplete buildings
The Municipality is offering demolition services for owners unwilling to resume works on abandoned, incomplete buildings
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Dubai Municipality has ‘intensified’ its campaigns for enhancing the image of buildings in the emirate.
Engineer Khalid Mohammed Salih, director of building department at the civic body said the campaign will be undertaken by all manpower at the department, including engineers and inspectors, and would focus on all buildings in the emirate, with specific attention paid to those in key areas.
The Municipality’s building department will inspect buildings to ensure all structures in the emirate meet Dubai’s global standards in the run-up to the Expo 2020.
“The department has issued to many building owners notices to carry out necessary maintenance or painting works or cleaning of front sides,” Engineer Jabir Ahmed Al Ali, head of building inspection in the department said.
“The civic body has high concerns over buildings which are poorly constructed or abandoned midway,” he continued, added such buildings are ‘considered black marks in a city which is advancing to newer heights’.
Al Ali informed inspections have been intensified on buildings situated on both sides of the Red Line and Green Line of the Dubai Metro, adding building owners have positively responded to the efforts.
The Municipality is offering demolition services to those who are not willing to go forward with construction works at a ‘considerably nominal fees’, he added.
