Dubai: A joint team from Dubai Municipality and Mohammad Bin Rashid Housing Establishment (MRHE) will be set up as part of the ‘Faz’a Service’ to inspect and carry out urgent maintenance in houses of low-income Emiratis living in Dubai.
During a meeting between the two entities, officials recommended speeding up the process of licensing cases submitted by the team and agreed on the necessity of notifying homeowners who have unlicensed annexes and have transactions in the process to refer to the municipality to license their annexes.
Engineer Layali Al Mulla, director of the Building Department at the municipality, said that it was agreed in the meeting that all contractors and consultants who don’t cooperate with MRHE, cause a delay in the implementation of MRHE’s projects, or do not commit to contracts will be reported to the municipality. The joint team will not issue permits for annexes of old buildings that have no prior approvals, she added.
At the beginning of the meeting, a delegation from MRHE gave a briefing about the Faz’a Service, which is tailored for low-income Emiratis to maintain their dwellings on an urgent base in the event of emergencies such as fire or partial roof collapses, Al Mulla said.
The meeting was attended by Abdullah Shezawi, Head of the Engineering Supervision section at the Building Department, Saeed Bin Humaidan, Head of Building Inspection Section of Dubai Municipality, and Engineer Faisal Nasreddin Al Bulooki, director of engineering management at MRHE as well as other senior officials.
