Municipality suspends construction work in Fahad Al-Ahmad

The Engineering Audit and Follow-up Department in the Ahmadi municipality issued a warning and stopped construction work in the Fahad Al-Ahmad area due to violations. The municipality reported that during the tours of the Engineering Audit and Follow-up Department at the Ahmadi Governorate Municipality branch, the department monitored a building under construction in the Fahad Al-Ahmad area. The inspection team found construction and concrete columns in violation of building codes. Accordingly, the team issued a warning by which construction work would be suspended until the building permits are presented to the pertinent authorities and construction plans have been verified. The department called on residential building owners to abide by the laws and regulations set by the municipality to avoid penalties. Municipality nspection teams last week issued seven warnings in the “Mahboula” and “West Abdullah Mubarak” areas during their fifth and sixth campaigns in the areas respectively.

The field campaigns aimed at ensuring compliance to building codes have resulted in identifying four buildings failing to abide by the laws in Mahboula and three in West Abdullah Mubarak.

The Farwaniya inspection team, which surveyed West Abdullah Mubarak, said the audit department has completed 90 percent of building permits in the area. It added that the power has been connected to 85 percent of buildings. The department said tours will continue periodically. Most of the violations in newly-built areas such as West Abdullah Mubarak, the department said, included the blocking of pathways next to transformers, and erecting unregulated communications towers, noting that the administration’s statistics showed the presence of 37 communications towers in the West Abdullah Mubarak, 29 of which found in violation of regulations.