DOHA: The Ministry of Municipality and Environment has launched a fresh crackdown on construction sites to ensure that rules and regulations regarding the supervision of building work by specialist engineers are being followed.
Construction companies and contractors and the engineering consultancies they have hired to supervise the design and building work must comply with laws.
Provisions of Law Number 19 of 2015 and its executive regulations as well as those of Law No 2 of 2014 apply in the case of engineers and engineering consultancies.
There is a Committee at the Ministry of Municipality and Environment which is tasked with licensing engineers and engineering consultancies and supervising their work.
The members of the Committee, many of whom have judicial powers, have begun making field visits to construction sites.
Construction companies and contractors and their consultancies must make sure that a specialist engineer is present at a construction site during work. All engineers must be approved by the Committee.
Action will be taken against companies and engineers found violating rules, the Committee said yesterday.
There are 225 local and 37 international engineering consultancies registered in the country. They employ 11,126 engineers, according to the Committee.
Registration of engineers employed with the consultancies has begun. Their degrees and certificates must be authenticated by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education.
After that, an engineer must take a test at the Committee.
If the engineer fails, he would be allowed three more attempts at the test, said the Committee. The Peninsula
