Dubai Municipality has emerged as the 12th government organization worldwide for the year 2012 in terms of international competitiveness as rated by the World Bank.
This was stated by Khalid Mohammed Saleh, director of Buildings Department, during his speech at the Customers’ Forum of Consultants and Contractors 2012 in Dubai.
Representatives of 70 construction consultants and contractors in the emirate attended the forum.
Khalid portrayed the significant achievements of the civic body pointing out the remarkable progress in the construction field, which reached 1.05 billion square feet and complete automation of entire services of the department.
“Many services are unified such as application for NOC, which is included in the application of construction permit as well as the unification of FIC and payment of drainage fees,” said the official.
“In addition, the approval for electrical rooms in the construction sites will be provided with the construction permit without any need for the separate approval from Dewa. The construction permit for swimming pool will also include the permission of DHA,” he said.
Khalid illustrated the development that has been witnessed by Dubai with the support of the statistics of consultant and construction companies, registered with the municipality.
“A total of 612 consultancy offices and 5,353 contracting companies are registered in Dubai so far in 2012,” he said.
Apart from that, the worksite accidents and violations have been significantly declining comparing to the previous years, he said.
The forum ended with an open discussion in which the participants shared their views and suggestions with the municipality officials.
Dubai Municipality competes for prominence
