المملكة: 7 tracks to qualify offices and engineering consulting companies

The Ministry of Municipalities and Housing has proposed the procedural guide to qualifying offices and engineering consulting companies, through the “reconnaissance” platform, with the aim of providing a clear framework for engineering consulting offices and companies, identifying roles and responsibilities for them and for all relevant parties and ensuring effective communication between offices and engineering consulting companies and relevant authorities.
The paths of qualifying offices and engineering consulting companies include 7 types are construction licenses, supervision of construction licenses, commercial licenses, excavation licenses, collective housing licenses for individuals, urban planning, and survey decisions.

Important requirements

The guide specified the requirements of these paths, which are represented in a valid commercial municipal license according to the activity of the service provider, and that the office has an engineer with a professional degree “civil or architectural specialization”.
The requirements include that the engineering office has a classification certificate from the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing, and that the rehabilitation request is approved by the secretariat that the engineering office wants to provide municipal licensing services through, according to the requirements mentioned in this guide, that the engineering office be licensed and that the license is valid From the Saudi Authority for Engineers.

Structural licenses

The evidence is obligated to the engineering office in the construction licenses path to extract the surveying decision, prepare a study of soil examination for the land to be built, and calculate the quantities of drilling according to the establishment level, to adhere to the preparation of engineering plans according to the accredited building system, the requirements and municipal requirements for construction and the requirements of the Saudi Building Code according to the type of building.
It stipulated that the engineering office obligate to upload fire protection and protection plans and technical reports from the engineering offices approved by the General Directorate of Civil Defense, and the work of the traffic study for the project and hydrological study, municipal coordination, preparing the schedules of quantities, specifications, accounts, engineering equations, and printing the construction license.

Municipal instructions

Engineering offices designed to adhere to municipal regulations and instructions undertake during the provision of construction services, adherence to the health of full data and information, apply safety requirements, adhere to designs and maps, and apply seismic design requirements and accounts.
The guide specified the rights of offices and engineering consulting companies, which include granting powers to them by submitting requests to issue municipal licenses on a country platform according to the type of license, providing them with conditions, requirements and provisions to provide services and procedures for them, and enable them to ensure the safety of procedures and construction in business sites.
The evidence stipulated that the offices have the right to object to the violations registered through a platform complying with the municipal control through the service of objection to the electronic ministry platform “Baladi” or the violations issued by the Secretariat according to requirements, including determining the reason for the objection and attaching what is supported by this, and adopting the violation from the authority, and that The violation will accept to object to it before the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing, and to submit the application during the regular period to object to the violation.