High rate of unemployment of engineers is concerned the Codia

Despite the fact that Dominican Republic has highly qualified engineering professionals the rate of unemployment in this branch has been one of the main concerns of the Dominican College of engineers, architects and Surveyors (Codia), comprising more than 26,000 members.

This was stated by the President of the institution, Domingo Taveras, who also emphasized the low participation of engineers Dominicans in the direction of megaprojects that rise in the country.

The leader attributed the situation largely to that in the great works that are built with foreign capital is not serving the labour law that requires 80% of the staff to be Dominican but that the proportion of average personnel Creole in these projects is around 50%.

However, the engineer Eduardo Domínguez Imbert, President of the constructota Imbert Dominguez and Associates, says that approximately 98% of workers u000aof the works being built in the country they are national. "The multinacinales bring their foreign overseers, but except for the first three executives of the pyramid are all Dominicans," assures.

The expert attributed the situation to the slowdown in the sector construction, machining scheme of the works of the State and the shortage of places in relation to the number of professionals.

Also noted that many of the newly graduates engineers deficiencies large to deal with the labour market, making it even more its tries.

However, said there are engineers capable of managing any of the major projects being built in Dominican Republic in the country, while the participation rate in the positions of major works is low. "An international construction company will bring a Superintendent that belongs to your organization, but a local engineer will get more" u000a"cheaper than one outside", pointed.

The President of the Codia highlighted contests made for the granting of works of the State imposed economic conditions that are not accessible to the majority of national engineers, due to the difficulties of financing, so called for will opt for the method of drawing.

Domínguez Imbert refutes this statement and claims that draw mechanism is not the most viable for that kind of entitlement because unless you do a previous classification, firms do not compete under comparable quality standards. "What there is to do is apply the law of public procurement that is very clear," noted.

Businessman stressed the need to implement legislation that is in the process to lower financing costs and streamline processes for processing services.

In this regard, the owner of the Codia intends to promote the creation of a u000aConsortium of banks to enable the local construction companies obtain funding to undertake large projects.

Monitoring
Taveras said the Codia advocates amendments to the law 62-00 on the exercise of the engineering, architecture, surveying and branches related to create more drastic penalties for breach of rules professionals.

He stressed that the country is frequently to look for an engineer to make structural calculations and then not to continue the contract for the implementation of the work, so there is no guarantee that the work be carried out within the standards required.

"Some engineers have even reported that the calculations that have been made to a particular work have been applied in other places with different ground conditions, which puts at risk the structure", assured.

Leader said that the lack of resources hinders the Codia perform due u000asupervision of construction projects because the rate attached to the body is of a weight per thousand, amount considered negligible for the inspection processes that are around between 3% and 5% of the total value of the work.

Taveras said that very few companies comply with the law 322, which requires foreign companies to be associated to a local company or joint capital to participate in contests, sweepstakes, or any other form of award in the country.

Leader pointed out that the entity has been demanding their active participation as the governing body of law 340-06 hires public compliance.

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