CODIA says that lack of funding hinders proper supervision

The Dominican College of engineers, architects and Surveyors (Codia) considered that the lack of funds for the supervision of the buildings throughout the country, limited the prevention of landslides, cracks and the occurrence of other irregularities that occur before and after the tremors of Earth.

The President of the Codia, Domingo Tavera Ulloa, deplored that the Guild only be paid the value of one peso per thousand costing construction in the public sector and RD$ 2 per each thousand dollars of the cost invested in works in the private sector, when the value of supervision of a work is estimated between three and five per cent of the cost of the same.

"How can claim citizenship that we have the economic resources to give the supervisory response to all works with a weight per thousand?" This is impossible. We would stress that is more strict (official) oversight to the works, but a work u000aMillionaire supervised by an inspector who earn salary of misery what what will happen? "Bribery", underlined.

Construction of
the position of the Association that brings together professionals of the construction was exposed during a visit to the director of the newspaper LISTÍN, Miguel Franjul, who were the President of the Codia, Domingo Tavera Ulloa, along with former Presidents Theodore Tejada, Domingo Mateo Urbáez, Amancio Pedro López, and the general Secretary, Esther Morillo Corcino.

They felt the need to strengthen the monitoring of works of the Ministry of public works Directorate, increase salaries, and the inspectors who are dedicated to endorse the licences to be works for its construction.

Deplored that regulation there is no to establish the prudent distance between buildings and towers being built in the National District and the rest of the country, which are municipalities bodies that grant the permission of u000asoil.

Pointed out that the construction of buildings are increasingly close one side or another, including reaching being separated by less than two meters, when advisable minimum is 5 or 10 metres to keep a little privacy of tenants and the safety of the buildings. "Councils are the only ones that have status to bring to justice people who violates the rules because they have municipal courts, all they do is to give no more land use permit," explained Theodorus Tejada.

Argued that right would be no construction of a building until be adopted a plane for works public.

Drainage
the Codia managers considered necessary that the authorities will implement a "master plan" for the urban and rain rearrangement that was already prepared, and that it is necessary to develop the growth of the population in the National District and others u000acities such as Santiago, San Francisco de Macoris and tourist areas like Bávaro.

They raised to take into account the population growth of Bávaro, where settled populations Haitian without any regulation.

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