The Building Permits Complex, in co-ordination with the Quality Department, is organising the “4th Workshop on Developments in Building Permit System” scheduled at 6pm today at the main auditorium of the General Directorate of Civil Defence building.
The workshop is expected to gather a wide range of engineering consultancy offices and representatives of all municipalities and concerned departments. It will discuss former and current achievements in the second phase of the upgrading of the building permit system.
The building permit system is expected to contribute to the enhancement of system performance, including electronic approval of plans, online payment, and linking with the land registration system, Lusail City projects, management and organisation of meetings, requests for increases in electricity loads, issuance of building completion certificates, and performance evaluation standards, in addition to reviewing the plan notes utilising the Auto View software.
Since the launch the first phase of upgrading the building permit system in 2014, work was “continued incessantly” in the development of the system amid “many difficulties and shortcomings” that were overcome through the support and the co-operation of consultancy offices, government agencies, and municipalities.
For the phase two of upgrading the building permit system, the Building Permits Complex, in co-ordination with the Information Systems Department and the Ever Team Company, has developed a package of additions and improvements that will contribute to the enhancement of the system performance to the target level.