Code for buildings:

Emergency Team of Jahra Municipality removed 60 unlicensed billboards during a campaign it launched to remove all billboards with Eid greetings alongside roads and streets, reports Al-Qabas daily.

Meanwhile, the Department of Public Hygiene in Jahra Municipality seized five buggies which were rented out to children, lifted a large quantity of waste materials, removed 48 billboards and replaced 25 garbage containers.

Director of Planning and Research at the Public Authority for the Disabled Khansa Al-Husseini disclosed that Kuwait has sent to the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) the approved codes for designs in Kuwait for easy access to buildings for adoption as a unified code in the GCC states, reports Al-Anba daily.

She explained that Kuwait is one of the first countries in the Gulf to have a code for buildings along with the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Each country is supposed to have 8-11 codes.

The authority is working with the National Council to launch the building code and is coordinating with the Standards Committee in the GCC.

Al-Husseini said the authority has sent the approved codes in Kuwait to the GCC secretariat for adoption as a unified code in the GCC, adding that the codes are under study at the secretariat and she hopes they will be adopted very soon.